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Chain Reaction
Investigate urban food chains...
Years: 3, 4
Duration: 5mins
Curriculum Objectives: 7
Subjects: Computing, English, Science
Resource Overview
With this video, your class can join poet Martin Kiszko as he investigates urban food chains. Looking up to the sky and down underground, Martin's poem focuses on wildlife commonly found in most British cities. Short and snappy, it's a great accompaniment to any science lesson about living things and their habitats, as well as predator-prey relationships. Use our lesson plan for inspiration, and why not challenge your class to compose their own food chain poems too?
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Curriculum Objectives
- Select, use and combine a variety of software on a range of digital devices to design and create programs, systems and content that accomplish given goals, including collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting information.
- Listen and respond appropriately to adults and peers
- Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates.
- Year 3 and 4 (Age 7-9)
- Compose and rehearse sentences orally, progressively building a rich vocabulary and a range of sentence structures.
- Recognise some different forms of poetry [e.g. free verse, narrative poetry].
- Year 3 (Age 7-8)
- Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat.
- Year 4 (Age 8-9)
- Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey.