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 * Unit 7C: Ecology matters 3 weeks **
 * ** Topic 1: Environmental impact ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies - p 81 || Resources ||
 * * State the name given to an area where a certain organism lives.
 * Describe the factors an environment contains.
 * Give some examples of how organisms are adapted to where they live.
 * Explain what communities,distribution and microhabitats are. || * Starter: Quick quiz
 * Discussion about building work going on and its implications on wild life
 * Book 35: read, class discussion
 * Practical: assessing a habitat – worksheet 7Ca (3)
 * What do ecologists need to know: class discussion
 * Book p 36-37: read, answer all questions
 * HW: worksheets || * Exploring Science Year 7 text pages 35 - 37
 * Quick quiz 7Ca
 * Quick check 7Ca
 * Worksheets: worksheet 7Ca (3)
 * 789science.wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE Biology: || Assessment:
 * Plenary: Quick check
 * Cloze exercise || Support/extension:
 * Access: Worksheet 7Ca(1) and (2)
 * Must: worksheet 7Ca(5)
 * Worksheets 7Ca(6) (most) or (7) (some) ||


 * ** Topic 2: Adept adaptations ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies - p 85 || Resources ||
 * * Describe some adaptations for living underwater.
 * Describe how some organisms are adapted to living in woodland and underground areas.
 * Explain some adaptations for living in very hot and very cold areas.
 * Explain why changes in habitats cause problems for organisms. || * Starter: recap on words from 7Ca
 * Adaptations of plants and animals found in a habitat
 * Book p 38-39: read, answer all questions
 * Decline in numbers spreadsheet – AB/AT/ICT task
 * HW: worksheets || * Exploring Science Year 7 text pages 38 - 39
 * AB/AT
 * 789science.wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE Biology || Assessment:
 * Plenary: effects of environmental changes on habitat and organisms || Support/extension:
 * Access: Worksheet 7Cb(1) and (2)
 * Must: worksheet 7Cb(5)
 * Worksheets 7Cb(7) (most) or (8) (some) ||


 * ** Topic 3: All change ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies - p 88 || Resources ||
 * * List the changes that can happen in an environment.
 * Describe how organisms respond to daily changes.
 * Describe how animals respond to seasonal changes.
 * Describe how plants respond to seasonal changes. || * Starter: adapting to changes presentation – AT
 * Book p 40: read, answer all questions, class discussions
 * Practical: water flea activity
 * Book p 41
 * Practical: weather station revisited
 * Discussing daily environmental changes
 * Plenary: Quick check
 * HW: worksheets || * Exploring Science Year 7 text pages 40 and 41
 * AT
 * Equipment and materials for water flea activity and weather station revisited
 * Quick check 7Cc
 * 789science.wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE biology || Assessment:
 * Plenary: Quick check
 * Cloze exercise || Support/extension:
 * Access: Worksheet 7Cc(1) and (2)
 * Must: worksheet 7Cc(5)
 * Worksheets 7Cc(7) (most) or (8) (some) ||


 * ** Topic 4: Finding food ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies - p 92 || Resources ||
 * * Recall the meanings of the words predator,prey,herbivore and carnivore.
 * Describe some adaptations of predators.
 * Describe some adaptations of prey.
 * Describe how animals are adapted to their sources of food. || * Starter: Grouping animals
 * Book p 42-43: read, answer questions, class discussions
 * Practical: choice chambers – worksheet 3Cd (3)
 * Thinking about feeding – AT presentaion
 * Practical: Camouflage
 * HW: worksheets || * Exploring Science Year 7 text pages 42 and 43
 * AT
 * Equipment and materials for practicals on choice chambers and camouflage
 * Quick check 7Cd
 * Worksheets 7Cd(3)
 * 789science.wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE biology || Assessment:
 * Plenary: quick check || Support/extension:
 * Access: Worksheet 7Cd(1) and (2)
 * Must: worksheet 7Cd(5)
 * Worksheets 7Cd(7) (most) or (8) (some) ||


 * ** Topic 5: Links and chains ** ||
 * Learning objectives || Learning strategies - p 96 || Resources ||
 * * Draw food chains and webs and explain what they show.
 * Recall the words used to describe different organisms in a food chain.
 * Give examples of the sort of evidence needed to construct food webs.
 * Give examples of how organisms compete.
 * Exploring Science Year 7 text
 * Equipment and materials for food chain chains in leaf litter
 * 789science.wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below || * Starter: Thinking about ecology
 * Book p 45: read, answer all questions, class discussions
 * Book p 46-47: read, answer all questions
 * Practical: food chains in leaf litter
 * Book p 48: class discussions
 * HW: revise for test || * Exploring Science Year 7 text pages 45 - 48
 * Equipment and materials for food chain chains in leaf litter
 * 789science.wikispace
 * Other worksheets: see below ||
 * Connections:
 * IGCSE biology || Assessment:
 * Plenary: revisit quick quiz || Support/extension:
 * Access: Worksheet 7Ce(1) and (2)
 * Must: worksheet 7Ce(5)
 * Worksheets 7Ce(7) (most) or (8) (some) ||