Date Set:
31/10/14
07/11/14
This term in our science lessons we will be finding out about different habitats.
A habitat is a place where a plant or animal lives (Its address!).
Different animals and plants are found in different habitats.
Habitats can be big - a forest - or small - a leaf.
Activity
Homework Project Cover Page
Your task this week is to design the first page of your ‘Habitats’ homework project. (Please start on the next blank page after your
Iron Age Project.) You must include the word ‘Habitats’ on your cover page. You can use bubble writing, a different style of writing or you can design your cover on the computer. The rest of your project page needs to be decorated with pictures that link to the topic of habitats. You could draw these yourselves or find pictures on the internet and print them off.
Mrs Nerg Poster
You have already learnt in your science lessons this term that living things have seven characteristics. These are Movement,
Reproduction, Sensitivity, Nutrition, Excretion, Respiration and
Growth. To help us remember these seven characteristics we have referred to them as Mrs Nerg or Mrs Gren. For your homework this week, I would like you to design an eye catching poster that could be displayed in a classroom that would help other children your age remember the seven different characteristics of a living thing. You can use ‘Mrs Nerg’ or ‘Mrs Gren’ or you can invent a new mnemonic to help remember the seven characteristics. Don’t forget that your poster needs plenty of pictures and colour to make it eye catching.
Date Due in:
06/11/14
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14/11/14 Vertebrate or Invertebrate?
As you know, animals are divided into two main groups. Animals that have a backbone are called vertebrates. Animals that don't have a backbone are called invertebrates. This week for your homework, I would like you to sort the pictures of the animals you have been given into vertebrates and invertebrates. You can divide your page in two or you can have a page for each type of animal.
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Different Types of Vertebrates
We can divide the large group of animals called vertebrates down into much smaller groups. These are
fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. This week I would like you to design a ‘Vertebrates’ spider diagram with five legs coming off it. Each leg of your spider diagram will be a different group of vertebrates. (E.g. ‘Fish’, ‘Amphibians’, ‘Reptiles’ etc.) At the end of each leg, I would like you to write a sentence explaining what the animals in that group are like. I would also like you to draw or print off some pictures of animals that fit into that particular group. For help in understanding what each vertebrate group is like, you could look at http://resources.woodlandsjunior.kent.sch.uk/homework/animals.html
Classification
Did you know that there are about 9 million different living things on
Earth? All 9 million of these different things are named! To help us identify different living things we can use something called a classification key. This week for your homework, I would like you to complete an animal classification worksheet. If you have enjoyed working through your animal classification worksheet, then you can visit http://resources.woodlandsjunior.kent.sch.uk/revision/science/living/keys.html
and play some games which introduce you to different ways of sorting things.
Food Chains
All living things need food to give them the energy to grow and move.
A food chain shows how each living thing gets food. It shows who is eating who. A food chain always starts with a plant. (All plants are
PRODUCERS.) A food chain ends with a PREDATOR. (Even though the predator looks like it is at the end of the food chain, we say they are at the top of the food chain.)
The arrow means "is eaten by" .
Grass ----> Grasshopper ----> Toad ----> Snake ----> Hawk
Grass is eaten by grasshopper is eaten by toad is eaten by snake is eaten by hawk.
Animals cannot make their own food. Animals get their energy and biomass by consuming (eating) other living things. All animals are consumers.
This week for your homework, I would like you to cut out the animals in each box on your worksheet and arrange them in the correct ‘food chain’ order. Underneath each picture please state if the living thing is a producer, consumer or a predator.
Habitat For Sale
To finish off your habitats homework project I would like you to design a ‘For Sale’ poster. On http://resources.woodlandsjunior.kent.sch.uk/homework/habitats.html
there is information about forest and woodland habitats, desert habitats, grassland habitats, water habitats and the Arctic Tundra. I would like you to choose one of the above habitats and design a persuasive poster encouraging living things to move there. For example, if you were trying to persuade an animal ‘to buy’ a desert habitat you might say –
‘Love dry conditions? Then move to the desert. Only 10 inches of
rainfall each year!’ Try to come up with at least five persuasive reasons for why your habitat is the one to buy!
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