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Y8 Science Homework Project

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Y8 Science Homework Project

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    1. Y8 Science Homework Project Start date: Week beginning 24th May Date to be handed in: Monday 5th July 6 weeks long. (Includes half term)

    2. Are you up to date? Use the table below to tick off each weeks task as you do it. Complete each task on a new sheet of paper with a title and your name.

    3. Week 1 What habitat? Choose a local habitat, for example your garden, a local wood, the village green, the village pond, an area within the school. Describe your habitat. Include weather, plant life, length of day and any other interesting information. For this you will need to collect data about the weather. Include a picture of your habitat. You can draw it or take a photo. Label the picture of the habitat, naming the things in it.

    4. Week 2 - Animals Describe what animals are found in your habitat. Include lots of difference species of animal covering mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. Also include any insects or crustaceans you think appropriate. Include a picture of each animal, either drawn by hand or from a magazine or the internet. Label each picture with the name of the animal and the group it belongs to.

    5. Week 3 - Classification Use the pictures from last weeks task to help you create a key to identify the animals in your habitat. There is an example on the following page to help you.

    6. A paired statement key is a useful way to identify living things because it can easily be made up into book form. 1 Wings Go to 2 No Wings Go to 4 2 Thick body Bumble Bee Thin Body Go to 3 3 Back legs as long as body Common Mosquito Back legs longer than body Malaria Mosquito Eight Legs House Spider Six Legs Go to 5 Narrow waist Black Ant Broad waist Cat Flea

    7. Week 4 Adaptation Chose one of the animals in your habitat. Draw a large labelled diagram of this animal. Explain how this animal is adapted to live in your environment. What specific features does it have to ensure that it survives? Make sure that you explain these well.

    8. Week 5 – Food chains and webs Draw a food chain for the animal you have chosen. Label the producer (plant), primary consumer, secondary consumer and tertiary consumer. 3. Draw a pyramid of numbers to represent your food chain? Extension Once you have created food chains try to put them together to create a food web for your habitat. If you can’t include all of your animals, try as many as possible. Can you turn your pyramid of numbers into a pyramid of biomass?

    9. Week 6 - What impact are humans having on this habitat? Use the internet to find examples of how humans are impacting on this environment. How could this effect the animal you have described? Are there any ways this could be prevented?

    10. Well done! You have completed the science homework project. Before you hand it in, make sure that all you work is there. Number the pages and make a front page and contents page to finish off your project. Make sure your name is on it!

    13. Success criteria Have you shown that you can: Describe a habitat? Collect data about the weather? Draw a graph? Identify which groups animals belong to? Label diagrams showing important information? Design a key? Explain how animals are adapted to survive? Make a food chain or food web? Make a pyramid of numbers/biomass? Use the internet to investigate the effect humans are having on other living things?

    14. Each weeks task is marked out of 10.

    15. Checklist

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