What lives where? presentation
Learn about the animals and plants that live in a woodland habitat, a pond and at the seashore and discover how they are suited to where they live.
How can I use this with my class?
Use these resources to introduce your pupils to habitats and microhabitats. Two short video clips encourage them to ask and answer questions about animals and plants. The quiz helps them identify the characteristics of living things.
Build pupils’ understanding of habitats and microhabitats with the ‘What lives where?’ presentation. Use the habitats poster to discover familiar habitats, then check learning with the activity sheet where pupils choose the habitat that a living thing may live in.
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What is a living thing? animation
In this short animation, Ravi, Kate and Bubbles discuss the needs of living things and identify those living in a cliff-top habitat and the sea. Click 'Watch' to play the video
Living, dead, never been alive quiz
Use this quiz to explore the differences between things that are living, dead and have never been alive.
Exploring habitats video
Discover what a habitat is, learn about living things in a rock pool and sort things into those that are alive, dead and have never been alive. Click 'Watch' to play the video
What is a habitat? poster
Use this 2-page poster to find out about habitats and to look cosely at animals and plants from different habitats.
Living things and their habitats activity sheet
Find out about the key features of different animals and plants and decide what habitat each one lives in, with this activity sheet.
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Watch Jen, an ecologist, talking about her job and using special equipment to observe and identify minibeasts in a variety of microhabitats.
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