Living things and their Habitats

In the Habitats project, we will learn what a habitat provides for the plants and animals that live there and that habitats contain both living and non-living things. We will identify living things using the seven life processes and sort the non-living things into those that have lived and those that have never lived. We will use spotting sheets to identify plants and animals from a woodland habitat by carefully observing their physical characteristics. We will research how a woodland habitat provides the things necessary for the survival of the animals that live there. We will learn about food chains and construct our own food chains for the woodland habitat. We will investigate the different ways prey animals avoid being eaten and conduct an investigation into animal camouflage. We will also look at the different methods plants use to avoid being eaten and group them according to how they defend themselves. We will then use the skills they have learned in the project to investigate the living things, food chains and adaptations in a mystery habitat.