Food Chains and Food Webs

food chain

Independent activity: Visit http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/frogs/chain_reaction/play_chainreaction.cfm (This is an energy chain!)

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/games/foodchaingame.htm.

Independent activity:   Sort out food chains in various habitats at http://www.rspb.org.uk/youth/play/foodchainchallenge.aspx.

Independent activity:   Try the quiz at http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/quiz/q14979838 or http://www.zephyrus.co.uk/foodpuzzlechaina.html.

Independent activity:   Build Deadly 60 food chains at http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/living_things/food_chains/play/.

Independent activity:   Work through the online activities about food chains/webs at http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/16022007/food_webs/lesson.html

& then   http://resources.hwb.wales.gov.uk/VTC/2009-10/science/cripsat/e14-interdependence/index.html.

Tech Companies: Apple and Microsoft

0722.sdt-apple-ms-earnings

Use these websites to find out about these two technology companies. 

How did they begin?  Who founded them? What do they do? 

Apple:

http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/apple/history-of-apple-steve-jobs-what-happened-mac-computer-3606104/

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1873486_1873491_1873530,00.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/03/21/the-history-of-apple-in-video

https://www.loc.gov/rr/business/businesshistory/April/apple.html

Microsoft:

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows/history#T1=era0

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/bill-gates/10616991/Bill-Gates-a-history-at-Microsoft.html

http://fundersandfounders.com/how-bill-gates-started/

https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/History

 

 

 

Science – Living things and Habitats

habitats

I can:
  1. Name some common minibeasts/invertebrates.
  2. Investigate habitats
  3. Write a fact file for a mini beast / habitat.

Explore virtual habitats:

http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/ponddip/

http://www.kscience.co.uk/as/module5/seashore_web_site/places/rockpool.htm

Find the living things:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/8_9/habitats.shtml

http://www.rspb.org.uk/youth/play/dipping.aspx

Learn about mini beasts:

http://www.parkfieldict.co.uk/infant/minibeasts/contents.html

Help the aliens find suitable habitats:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/science/living_things/plant_animal_habitats/play/

Learn more about habitats:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/z73fb9q

Habitats

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/clips/z3hxpv4

http://www.arkive.org/education/games/word-safari

Now create a page for an information booklet. It could contain information about a mini beast, or habitats or both.