Lesson · Year 6 - Science

Lesson 3 — Changing Conditions and Human Impact

Biological sciences. How changing conditions (drought, fire, seasonal change) and human activities (land clearing, pollution, introduced species) affect growth and survival. Students set up a fair-test seed-growth mini-investigation. Includes a slide deck with an animated drought cause-and-effect chain and the Seed Investigation Recording Sheet worksheet.

This lesson covers

C1 Living Things in a Changing Environment
C5 Working Scientifically: Inquiry Skills

Worksheets

Seed Investigation Recording Sheet
The Growing Plant Investigation

Lesson plan

I do / We do / You do Teacher-facing lesson plan.

Approaches

Kinesthetic: run it and chain it kinesthetic
Visual: arrow chains and growth strips visual
Aural: talk the consequences aural

Presentations

When Habitats Change 7 pages ▶ Show presentation

#	Page
1	When Habitats Change
2	Looking back, looking forward
3	Two ways a habitat can change
4	I do: a chain of cause and effect
5	We do: planning the seed test
6	You do: set up your investigation
7	Bringing it together