Higher:
Is able to compare animals in different parts of the ocean
Middle:
Can describe where in the ocean some animals live
Lower:
Is able to name some animals in the ocean
Higher:
Middle:
Lower:
Lesson Recap Starter: Think back to the last lesson. What causes an environment to change?
Lesson Starter: The word marine means something related to or found in the sea. Biology is the study of living things. What do you think the job of a marine biologist includes?
Ask the children if they know what a marine biologist does and what they might study.
Presentation - Starter Slide
Run through the presentation about ocean life, asking questions as suggested on the slides.
Key Concept:
During this unit, each lesson contains a key concept question housed in the '30 Second Challenge' slide. To help children master this content so the knowledge moves from their short term memory to their long term memory, at the beginning of the follow on lesson the question from the previous lesson is revisited.
The questions covered during this unit include:
1. Describe the habitat that is suitable for a polar bear to live in.
2. What causes an environment to change?
3. How is an ocean habitat different from a desert habitat? What can we do to look after our ocean habitats?
4. What are the dangers of ocean life?
5. How are the Arctic and Antarctic habitats different? Why was it more dangerous for an explorer to visit the polar regions long ago?
6. Why are rainforests important? What are the key challenges rainforests face?
7. What adaptations does a mole have to help it live in an underground soil habitat a good environment?
Presentation
Expert Film: Dr Rhian Waller talks about her trip to the Antarctic.
Ask the children to watch closely and try and remember what Rhian talks about so that you can chat about it afterwards.
How we deliver the Gatsby Benchmarks:
2 - Learning from career and labour market information: Pop along to Developing Experts career’s zone to find out about jobs in your area.
4 - Linking curriculum learning to careers: This unit showcases careers in the people who work with habitats. Access our 360° virtual work tours.
7 - Encounters with Further and Higher Education: Pop along to Developing Experts career’s zone to find out about training providers in your area.
Presentation - Expert Film.
Ocean Life Collage
Ask the children to read through the information about ocean life. Then they are going to create a cross-section of the ocean using coloured paper, pens, etc. On this, they should label the seafloor at 2,000m and another mark at 1,000m. It may help some children to include a 500m mark as well.
Ask the children to cut the animals out of the Handout and stick them onto the collage in the appropriate location.
The children could stick the pictures down with sticky tack to allow them to move and play with the creatures.
Mission to Write!
Blue Whale Fact-file
Today's extended writing task is to use the knowledge gained in the lesson, as well as any extra facts found in your library or the internet, to complete the fact-file template on Handout - Mission to Write! Blue Whale Fact-file. Alternatively, children could create their own display about the Blue whale, ensuring some extended writing takes place. Encourage children to focus on their spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Handout
Coloured paper
Coloured pens or pencils
Scissors
Glue
Sticky tack
Handout - Mission to Write!
Blue Whale Fact-file.
Quiz
With their talk partners, the children can go through the quiz at the end of the presentation and answer the questions.
Quiz in presentation
The Science Behind the Science
Blue whales are the largest animals on Earth, but they are not the biggest living thing. The largest organism on Earth is the giant sequoia, which is a type of Redwood tree which grows in the USA. It can grow as tall as 85 metres high!
Blue whales eat krill, which weigh about 2 grammes each. Because krill are so small, the Blue whale needs to eat a lot of them to fuel its huge body. On average a Blue whale eats about 3,600 kilogrammes of krill a day.
To identify living things in the habitats to which they are suited and describe how different kinds of habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other.
The study of the characteristics, systems, and behaviours of humans and other animals, and of plants; the interactions and relationships between and among them, and with the environment.
Find things out and using primary sources of information
Gathering and recording data to help in answering questions
Grade 3 Animals