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 * ** DAY ** || ** PERIOD ** ||
 * ** Monday ** || ** 7 ** ||
 * ** Tuesday ** || ** 3 ** ||
 * ** Thursday ** || ** 7 ** ||
 * ** Friday ** || ** 6 ** ||

Assignment/homework

Resources

 [|http://sites.ext.vt.edu/virtualfarm/beef/beef.html#]  - nitrogen cycle on a beef farm []  - carbon cycle movie [] - Abiotic/biotic factors review [] - Ecosystem simulation Biodiversity: [] <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Biology and ecology lessons and activities <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> - The 7 characteristics of life (MRS NERG), actually KS2 but good for revision/summary. <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> - Lots of information about food chains and pyramids. <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">[|http://www.naturegrid.org.uk] <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Mainly for the KS2 or early KS3 pupils, but lots of eco-friendly ideas, such as nature walks, etc. <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> - Animated food chains movie from BBC Bitesize (actually aimed at KS2, but would make a good introduction as it defines all the words such as ‘consumer’, ‘producer’ etc.). <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> - Biomes Living Worlds from ThinkQuest, lots of detail on the seven major land biomes (tundra, desert, rainforest etc) around the world including how animals are adapted for them. Might make a good project... <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> - Site on habitats from Robert Hitcham's Primary School - basic, but might be an ok introduction for low-ability Y7s and has some nice pictures. <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> - The full E&FR topic by Laisterdyke High School. <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">[|http://www.naturegrid.org.uk] <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Mainly for the KS2 or early KS3 pupils, but lots of eco-friendly ideas, such as nature walks, etc. <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">This is just a glossary of ecological terms but it includes some interesting words that pupils may not have come across before. <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">This has great photos and lots of information about fish, corals and anemones. It could be used to discuss how organisms are adapted to their environment. <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">This has lots of detail on the ways that animals are adapted to cold conditions and includes posters to print out and label. <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> ||
 * <span style="mso-element-anchor-horizontal: margin; mso-element-anchor-vertical: paragraph; mso-element-frame-hspace: 9.0pt; mso-element-top: 9.85pt; mso-element-wrap: around; mso-element: frame; mso-height-rule: exactly; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Web quest sites: <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">[] <span style="font-family: Cambria,serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> - food chains/energetics