Living organisms need each other!
Engagement phase:
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Sorting task ie cards with illustrations of food chain levels hung from ceiling...or picked from the box and sorted
Traffic light activity
Web of Life game/activity (link to marine environment)
Plankton photos
Discovery tour over the “bridge to nowhere”
Grow your own billabong bugs
www.sheppardsoftware.com/kidscorner games on animal classifications
Survivor game (new PC module)
Support for learning to achieve Australian Curr outcome
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Web of Life game/activity (link to marine environment)
Sorting task ie cards with illustrations of food chain levels hung from ceiling...
Lorax
Who’s for Dinner Scootle interactive game
Student developed photo gallery of creatures around school or excursion or in local community that are then arranged into food chain
Aquaculture area at St Marks College
Excursion to local eco-systems, ie mangroves, shark exhibition in library, marine eco-systems
(National Parks have some info on the micro-organisms likely to be in the eco-systems)
YouTube clip on sharks
Online simulation of grasslands
Look globally at eco-systems, ie Borneo palm oil industry
Panda party, WWF
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Discussion of consequences of break downs in food chains ie ecokids.ca chain reaction
Sun-ship Earth program (Kangaroo Island)
Biological control Cane Toads case study Reference Book Pearsons Science 7
Campaign as summative
www.gould.edu.au foodwebs (marine, grasslands) interactive games
Woolly web
www.kidsknowit.com interactive educational movies foodwebs
Roll the dice game predator prey game (Tegan)
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Lesson outline
Getting started
1. Traffic lights
2. Card sorting activity
3. What we are working towards is this topic all
about? h/w students to think about the action
they want to take
Present the big question:
Living organisms need each other
1. Students asked to consider what this means, in
small groups mindmap. This could be shared
and/or in own Journal.
2. Who eats what? activity
1. Survivor Game
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1. Impact of interventions in food chains
including human
2. Lorax
Action: time to get ready for the final task
Student local action ie Panda party, teach
another class, clean-up etc
Consider linking to audience for feedback and
revisiting the Traffic Lights sheet
Resources
Traffic Lights worksheet
Pictures of animals in box for
selection
Assessment
Diagnostic assess:
Traffic lights sheet
Students knowledge &
understandings
AfL
“Inspiration” or “ReasonAble”
as a mindmapping tool
Student’s own Glossary
Class Word wall
Student Journals/science scrap
books
Formative(AssessforLearning)
Student journals & mindmaps
Sonya Cook Trial yr 7 unit
Sonya Cook Trial yr 7 Module
 www.gould.edu.au
foodwebs (marine,
grasslands) interactive
games
Tribute to the great white
shark & use questions from
Sonya Cook’s unit
Final task: consider how
human activity in the
community can have positive
and negative effects on the
sustainability of ecosystems
Traffic Lights sheet
What was the most surprising thing that happened this session....the great white shark tribute! How excited Helen was about htis!
Most distressing being senior boil teacher not sure what my contributions were of value
Most significant working on the plan we have in front of us here, most significant 8
1 day may be better to have!
Most moving .. closer alignment what we are trying to achieve from curric services into schools. Between curric and pedagogy, secondary & primary
teachers coming together
Most surprising the amount of ideas we came up with in the session, practical ideas! Wished we had this opportunity more often.