Why do animals and plants need each other

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Why do animals and plants need each other?
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1. Exploration
What can you see in this picture that is living?

• What do all living things do? What do all living
  things need? Why do they need these things?
• Where do plants get these things from?
• Where do animals get these things from?
• How do animals and plants depend on each other?

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2. Make a woodland food chain

• What sort of event could affect your food chain?
  Would it affect both directions of the food
  chain? How?
• How does this help you think of new ideas about
  how animals and plants depend on each other?
• What do you agree about in your group? What do
  you disagree about?

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3. A disaster in Japan

• Which way is the energy flowing in this food
  chain?
• Why do you think so many people died or became
  ill?
• Which part of their bodies do you think the
  mercury affected the most?
• How does this help you understand how plants and
  animals depend on each other?

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4. The mouse and the plant

• What will happen to the plant on its own?
• What about the mouse on its own?
• What about when they are both together?
• How do your ideas relate to what you think about
  how animals and plants depend on each other?

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5. The sun

• Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
• What evidence can you think of to support your
  argument?
• What arguments might there be against yours?
• How can you explain to the other group why you
  agree or disagree with their ideas?

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6. Back to the start and future learning

• How have your ideas changed today?
• What progress have you made with your
  understanding of why animals and plants need each
  other?
• What arguments have you used to explain your
  point of view or idea?
• What other evidence would help you understand
  better?