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Stage 2 [3]Geography: Years 3 and 4Topic: Significance of Environments: Animal HabitatsKey inquiry question #1: How does the environment support the lives of living things?
Content
Significance of environments
Students:
investigate the importance of natural vegetation and natural resources to the environment, animals andpeople, for example: (ACHGK021, ACHGK022, ACHGK024)
explanation of the importance of natural vegetation to animals and the functioning of theenvironment (ie. it allows homes and habitats)
Background Notes for Teachers
Particular natural features in a forest environment provide elements of habitat for animals. This learning sequencefocuses on trees, shrubs and groundcover plants as examples of important living habitat elements, and on leaflitter, water and rocks and logs as examples of non-living habitat elements.
Animals often rely on several habitat elements within an environment. For example superb wrens shelter amongstshrubs, forage for invertebrates amongst the leaf litter and shrubs, and need a fresh source of water. Someanimals particularly rely on one habitat element and could not survive without it in an environment. For examplerainbow lorikeets breed in tree hollows, usually found in mature gum trees.
Interconnections between the environment and animals links with Stage 2 Science – Living World strand, inparticular, “Living things, including plants and animals, depend on each other and the environment to survive.(ACSSU073)”. Students could undertake a scientific investigation such as a leaf litter hunt to investigate thediversity of living things found in their school environment and the relationship between plants and animals.
Student Activities
Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 Activity 5 Activity 6
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Activity 1
Rainbow lorikeet habitat [4]
Students study a drawing of a rainbow lorikeet and answer questions about its habitat.
Number of set tasks: 1
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Activity 2
Natural features of a forest [5]
Students examine a colonial drawing of a forest and label the natural features and animal habitats.
Number of set tasks: 1
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Activity 3
What are animal habitats and the elements of habitats? [6]
Students view botanical drawings of plants and highlight each labeled natural feature that is a habitat element.
Number of set tasks: 1
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Activity 4
Where are animal habitats found? [7]
Students create a photo sketch of a forest environment and list all the habitat elements.
Number of set tasks: 1
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Activity 5
Why are natural vegetation and non-living habitat elements important to animals? [8]
Students view botanic drawings and identify what the habitat elements in the natural environment provide for eachanimal and complete a table.
Number of set tasks: 1
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Activity 6
Stop habitat removal: Interconnections between animals and their habitats [9]
Students list the types of habitat elements that might be found in a eucalypt forest and explain how the animals relyon each element in the environment.
Number of set tasks: 2
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NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum Geography K–6
Outcomes Geographical Inquiry Skills Geographical Concepts LAC
Outcomes
Astudent:
GE2-2 describes the ways people, places and environments interactGE2-4 acquires and communicates geographical information using geographical tools for inquiry
Geographical Inquiry Skills
Acquiring geographical information
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develop geographical questions to investigate (ACHGS019, ACHGS026)collect and record relevant geographical data and information, for example, by observing, by interviewing,conducting surveys, or using maps, visual representations, the media or the internet (ACHGS020,ACHGS027)
Processing geographical information
represent data by constructing tables, graphs and maps (ACHGS021, ACHGS028)represent information by constructing large-scale maps that conform to cartographic conventions, usingspatial technologies as appropriate (ACHGS022, ACHGS029)interpret geographical data to identify distributions and patterns and draw conclusions (ACHGS023,ACHGS030)
Communicating geographical information
present findings in a range of communication forms, for example, written, oral, digital, graphic, tabular andvisual, and use geographical terminology (ACHGS024, ACHGS031)reflect on their learning to propose individual action in response to a contemporary geographical challengeand identify the expected effects of the proposal (ACHGS025, ACHGS032)
Geographical Concepts
Place: the significance of places and what they are like (ie.natural and human features and characteristicsof different places and their similarities and differences; how people’s perceptions about places influencetheir responses and actions to protect them).Space: the significance of location and spatial distribution, and ways people organise and manage spacesthat we live in (ie.settlement patterns within Australia, neighbouring countries and other countries).Environment: the significance of the environment in human life, and the important interrelationshipsbetween humans and the environment(ie. how climate and environment influence settlement patterns;interconnections between people and environments; differing ways people can use environmentssustainably).Interconnection: no object of geographical study can be viewed in isolation (ie. interconnections betweenpeople, places and environments; influence of people’s values on the management and protection ofplaces and environments and the custodial responsibilities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples).Scale: the way that geographical phenomena and problems can be examined at different spatial levels(ie.types of settlement across a range of scales; the influence of climate across a range of scales).Sustainability: the capacity of the environment to continue to support our lives and the lives of other livingcreatures into the future (ieways in which people, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
LAC
Learning Across the Curriculum
SustainabilityCritical and creative thinkingLiteracyCivics and citizenshipDifference and diversity
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Resources
Picture books
The Hunt by Narelle Oliver
Leaf Litter by Rachel Tonkin
The Bushwalk by Sandra Kendall
Websites
Australian Museum [10]
Birds in Backyards [11]
Student Activities
Activity #1 Activity #2 Activity #3 Activity #4 Activity #5 Activity #6
Activity #1
Rainbow lorikeet habitat [4]
Students study a drawing of a rainbow lorikeet and answer questions about its habitat.
Number of set tasks: 1
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Activity #2
Natural features of a forest [5]
Students examine a colonial drawing of a forest and label the natural features and animal habitats.
Number of set tasks: 1
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Activity #3
What are animal habitats and the elements of habitats? [6]
Students view botanical drawings of plants and highlight each labeled natural feature that is a habitat element.
Number of set tasks: 1
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Activity #4
Where are animal habitats found? [7]
Students create a photo sketch of a forest environment and list all the habitat elements.
Number of set tasks: 1
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Activity #5
Why are natural vegetation and non-living habitat elements important to animals? [8]
Students view botanic drawings and identify what the habitat elements in the natural environment provide for eachanimal and complete a table.
Number of set tasks: 1
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Activity #6
Stop habitat removal: Interconnections between animals and their habitats [9]
Students list the types of habitat elements that might be found in a eucalypt forest and explain how the animals relyon each element in the environment.
Number of set tasks: 2
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Source URL:https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/learning/earths-environment-animal-habitats
Links[1] http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/learning/earths-environment-animal-habitats [2]http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/file/52106/download?token=wfuHUyn3 [3] http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/learning/schools-and-teachers?stage=12081 [4] http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/learning/earths-environment-animal-habitats/rainbow-lorikeet-habitat [5] http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/learning/earths-environment-animal-habitats/natural-features-forest [6] http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/learning/earths-environment-animal-habitats/what-are-animal-habitats-and-elements-habitats [7]http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/learning/earths-environment-animal-habitats/where-are-animal-habitats-found [8] http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/learning/earths-environment-animal-habitats/why-are-natural-vegetation-and-non-living-habitat [9] http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/learning/processing-information-stop-habitat-removal-interconnections-between-animals-and-their [10] http://australianmuseum.net.au/animals [11] http://www.birdsinbackyards.net
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