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2 6326
3 5806
4 5925
5 5551
6 3914

Science - Exploring living things and habitats

Science - Exploring living things and habitats

Key Competency

Participating and contributing.

Inquiry Taster

You can download the document above for the comprehensive inquiry and context but below is a taster of what it offers.

  • Describe the effects of human induced environmental change on a habitat. Read journal articles and view YouTube clips showing the effects of human induced environmental change on habitats.

  • Sequence the effects of some natural and human induced change on New Zealand environments using Wikipedia: timeline of the environmental history of New Zealand

  • Identify and describe a habitat in the school grounds that has been affected by naturally induced changes in the environment.

  • Describe how an environment you have identified changes due to human events during the hours, days, weeks and months you walk to and from school.

  • Sequence these environmental changes on an annotated time line.

  • New Zealand Transport Agency. Waka Kotahi.
  • newzealand.govt.nz website.