A3 posters

Today you're going to make a poster explaining the features of your animal. We're in the library so you can use the colour printer to create an eye catching poster to tell people about the adaptations your animal has. You need to work as a group to produce a poster showing:

• The name of the animal (species name, not what it's friends call it!).
• Where it lives.
• What it eats.
• What colour it is (and WHY).
• Any other adaptations it has.
• Why it is important to the ecosystem.

Cut out your sections from powerpoint slides and stick them on your poster. We will finish painting the animals next week and make a display in class with them.

Animal posters

Today you're going to continue planning your animals from last lesson, thinking about the structures that help them survive. Answer the following in your books, and remember you will need these next week!

1. What colour is your animal? How does this help it?
2. Does it gain or lose heat easily? Why is this?
3. Think about your animal's activity levels. Does it move quickly? What type of muscles does it need?
4. How does the oxygen your animals muscles need get into it's blood? Name one other place in the animal's body where diffusion occurs.
5. Draw a biomass pyramid containing your animal. Where does it fit in? What is the term for where it fits?                                                                        
6. Most living things are made from lots of carbon. What element makes up most of yours?  How does this benefit your animal?
7. Read about this lizard defending itself (a real story). Does your animal have any chemicals that help it stay alive?
8. Use this site to list five other adaptations of your animal. You should also explain how they help it:
9. Try this activity. Name one animal adapted to a desert environment:
10. Identify the organisms in this ecosystem, then place them into a food web:

revision

Today we're going to finish off revising for the test tomorrow in class. make sure you have your handouts from last week, and complete the following in your books:

1. What is conduction? Give an example:
2. What does heat transfer through during convection?
3. Explain how density relates to convection:
4. Where does radiation occur? Give an example and explain how it is different from the ther two heat transfer methods.
5. Why are metals good at conducting heat? Why ISN'T wood a good heat conductor?
6. What is a heat insulator?
7. What are the two ends of a magnet called?
8. What 4 metals are attracted to magnets?
9. Explain how you would make an electromagnet. How is this different from a normal magnet?
10. How can magnets be made to repel each other? How can they attract each other?
11. Extension - Do some reading and find out how maglev trains work. Why are they better than normal trains?
12. This video helps you look at examples similar to those we saw in class.
13. Finally, try this activity. Which charges attract and repel each other?

HOMEWORK - Read through these questions and your notes from last week, to mae sure you're ready for the test in period 2 tomorrow! Come and ask Mr. Cole beforehand if you have any questions.