Week Topic Learning Outcomes Activities and resources Assessments Curriculum link 1 Classification What is classification and what is it used for in everyday life? Understand how to work out if something is living or not living Understand the characteristics of living things - MRS GREN MRS GREN worksheet Living or dead worksheet 1.1.1.1 Classification keys Know how to use and make dichotomous keys to classify animals Pearson Activity book 6.1, 6.2 and 6.3. Dichotomous key booklet Pearson unit review 6.1 page 202 1.1.1.2, 1.1.1.6 2 Scientific Naming How are organisms What is binomial nomenclature and how was it developed Pearson Activity book 6.5 1.1.1.5, 2.1.1, 2.1.2 The 5 Kingdoms Make a pneumonic to remember the of classification (kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species) Know the differences between animals and plants Know the characteristics of the 5 classes of vertebrates and the differences between them Study Skill: Venn diagram to contrast animals and plants Study Skill: To summarise the 5 kingdoms and 5 classes of chordates 1.1.1.3, 1.1.1.4 3 The 5 kingdoms As above Finish mind map 1.1.1.4, 1.1.1.2 Adaptations Describe how animals have adapted to suit their environment Classify adaptations as behavioural or structural Pearson activity book 5.3 1.1.1.2
Plant adaptations Watch David Attenborough’s Secret Life of Plants: Flowering Secret life of plants worksheet 4 Food chains Label producers, primary secondary and tertiary consumers. Describe the importance of decomposers in an ecosystem Understand how energy passes through a food chain Know that plants make their own food (glucose) using energy from the sun via photosynthesis Pearson activity book 5.6 Food chains 2 Producer consumer decomposer worksheet Food web worksheet 1.1.2.1, 1.1.2.3, 1.1.2.4 Food webs Combine food chains to make food webs Pearson activity book 5.7 1.1.2.2 5 Ecosystem relationships Define the terms and identify the following in food chains and food webs: herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, predator, prey Food chains 1 worksheet Predator and prey worksheet Food chains to food webs worksheet Producer and consumer worksheet 1.1.2.2, 1.1.2.3 Changes in ecosystems Predict changes in animal populations using food webs Changes to ecosystems – food webs and food chains Pearson activity book 5.9 1.1.2.5 6 Zoo assignment Plan and work on zoo assignment Watch past examples of zoo videos Go to zoo 7 Introduced species in Australia Research the impact of introduced species in Australia Research a successful animal control program Create a poster a pest animal in Australia Pest project worksheet 1.1.2.5, 1.1.2.6, 2.2.4 Cane Toads Watch Cane Toads: The Conquest 1.1.2.6 8 Watch and mark zoo videos Students are to place their videos on a USB Peer Assessment booklet Zoo Video 3.5.1 9 Palm oil plantations Understand the effect of palm oil plantations on Orangutan numbers Understand that finding a solution is not always as simple as it first seems, and that you need to work together with all who are affected. Have a debate: Should shops only be able to sell palm oil from sustainable farms? Palm oil debate information sheet and PowerPoint 1.1.2.6, 2.1.2, 2.2.3 10 Revision Revision and final test Study Skill: 3-2-1 Thinking Final test