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Five Year 7 lessons that build from what makes an ecosystem to food chains and food webs, then apply them to a real Western Australian case of environmental change, the 2010–11 Shark Bay marine heatwave, before students make an evidence-based conservation decision.
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Across 5 lessons: 7 interactive activities, 9 knowledge checks, 5 practice tasks, 5 reflections and 14 data tables, using 5 different TEU interactives. Every lesson opens with a real question or scenario, states its learning intention, lists its learning outcomes and checks understanding with instant feedback.
Quokkas live on Rottnest Island and in parts of the south-west, but you will never find one in the Pilbara desert. Why do living things live in some places and not others?
Students learn what an ecosystem is made of, and how living and non-living things in an ecosystem affect each other.
1 interactive activity · 2 knowledge checks · 1 practice task · 1 reflection · 3 data tables
Every time you eat, you take in energy that started its journey in the Sun. How does energy get from the Sun into a tiger shark?
Students learn to model how energy and matter move between living things using food chains.
1 interactive activity · 2 knowledge checks · 1 practice task · 1 reflection · 3 data tables
Monarch caterpillars eat only one kind of plant. Tiger sharks eat almost anything. If the food supply changes, which one is in more trouble — and who else is affected?
Students learn to use food webs to predict how a change to one population can affect many others.
2 interactive activities · 1 knowledge check · 1 practice task · 1 reflection · 2 data tables
In the summer of 2010–11, the ocean off Western Australia became much hotter than normal for weeks. In Shark Bay, huge areas of seagrass died. What happened to the animals that depend on it?
Students learn to use a real Western Australian event to explain how a change in the environment spreads through a food web, and how scientists use evidence to study it.
2 interactive activities · 2 knowledge checks · 1 practice task · 1 reflection · 3 data tables
A map shows fewer sightings of a species this year. Does that prove the species is disappearing? What else would a scientist want to know before acting?
Students learn to weigh different kinds of evidence and use what we know about food webs to recommend a sensible conservation action.
1 interactive activity · 2 knowledge checks · 1 practice task · 1 reflection · 3 data tables
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