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Summer 2

Animals - Planet Earth

Children will be taught to:

Know that bees protect treehoppers from assassin bugs and in return the bees drink honeydew off the back of the tree-hoppers.
Elephants are travelling further to find water and in doing so are changing their own habitat in order to survive.
Climate change is on-going and a real danger to the planet.
Rising temperatures are causing bigger storms and larger hurricanes that threaten our coast lines. Animals are having to change their behaviours to survive.
Plastic is a threat to our oceans. It can be confused as food for animals and it can trap them.

Children will work scientifically by:

Knowing which animals depend on each other to survive both within and across species.
Asking questions about the extremes of earth e.g. is the fire season necessary and why? What problems does the fire season pose for animals?
Sharing ideas about slowing climate change in a group and listen to the ideas of others.
Making observations about changes over time. Great white sharks are hunting closer to the coast so seals are working together to survive.
Making accurate observations about the threats to the oceans.

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