STEM FORWARD PLANNING DOCUMENT – Lesson 2
TERM 2 WEEK 1 UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT YEAR LEVEL: 7
GOAL: Goal 15 (Life on Land)
GENERAL CAPABILITIES
Literacy Numeracy ICT Capability Critical and Creative Ethical Understanding Personal and Social Intercultural
Thinking Capability Understanding
CROSS CURRICULUM PRIORITIES
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia Sustainability
Design Technologies Design Technologies Digital Technologies Digital Technologies OTHER SCSA LINKS eg Maths,
Knowledge & Understandings Process & Production Skills Knowledge & Understandings Process & Production Skills Science
Interactions between
organisms, including the
effects of human activities
can be represented by food
chains and food
webs (ACSSU112)
TEACHING AND LEARNING EXPERIENCES
OBJECTIVES Introduction:
Define what an ecosystem Kahoot Quiz on animal classifications (recap Lesson 1)
is. Body:
Identify 5 different Watch YouTube video with class.
ecosystems and organisms o Question students:
that inhabit them. What are examples of an ecosystem? What does an ecosystem mean?
Explain how one organism Ecosystem Graffiti (groups of 6)
being removed from the o 5 stations set up with butcher paper and pens.
food web impacts the rest o 5 different ecosystems are listed (Marine, Forest, Arctic, Desert & Freshwater) and students must list all organisms that they can think of that
of the ecosystem inhabit each environment.
ASSESSMENT o Groups will rotate after 2-minutes at each station
Kahoot on Lesson 1 What are some adaptations that are important for survival in the marine/desert/arctic ecosystem? What are similarities between
content animals within the same ecosystem?
(informal & formative) Food Web Demonstration using the South West Marine ecosystem
Mini Whiteboards o Several students are allocated an animal within the ecosystem.
(informal and formative) o A ball of yarn is used to create a life-sized food web to demonstrate interactions. Each student attaches a string of yarn to students who
RESOURCES represent an organism that interacts with their own organism.
Yarn held in left hand indicates a consumer, Yarn held in right hand indicates producer
Kahoot Quiz
o Terms Interdependent, Symbiosis, Commensalism, Mutualism, Parasitism & Consumer are introduced to students
YouTube video “What do you think would happen if one animal was removed from the food web?” “Would it make a difference if the animal was higher
Projector or lower in the food web? How would this happen (e.g. extinction, overfishing)
iPads Food Chains
Wi-Fi o Students must use food web on pg. 197 to identify the 1 st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th order consumers in the ecosystem.
Pens These food chains are then acted out by students.
Butcher Paper “What would happen if the plants decreased in the food web on pg. 197?”
Mini Whiteboards “What would happen if the number of large birds increased?
White board markers Roleplay
Pearson Science Year 7 o In groups of 4, students design a skit to demonstrate the effect of an organism being removed from the ecosystem
Textbook (pg. 197, 199) All the consumers in an ecosystem are removed
Balls of yarn All the producers in an ecosystem are removed
All the decomposers in an ecosystem are removed.
Conclusion:
Exit Slip (Mini Whiteboards)
o Students are assigned an animal from the South-West food web and must identify what number consumer the animal is and two organisms that
would be impacted if their animal was removed from the food web.
LEARNER DIVERSITY:
Gifted & Talented – Using the textbook (pg. 199), create a food chain including yourself and 5 other plants or animals that you could consume.
SWD – (Hearing Impaired) – Student is emailed YouTube videos prior to class (views them on iPad connected to hearing aids)
SAER – Will have access to the educational videos shown in class (emailed or on a USB) and are sat next to a high-achieving student who can assist them.
