Lesson Six - Plants and Animals
Key Concepts:
- plants and animals within an environment depend on each other and have relationships to enable them to live together (eg some birds use twigs to make a nest, lizards bask on rocks and wind disperses seed)
- some living things work together to survive (eg ants build a colony; bees live in a hive)
- the importance of diversity and the varying roles of living things in an environment (eg roles of animals as scavengers, predators, carnivores, herbivores, pollinators)
- living things have relationships that threaten their survival (eg predators, disease and introduced species)
The following site contains a recommended lesson plan:
The following resources are from The Learning Federation, and contain an interactive activities to help students grasp how animals and plants depend on each other:
