Description
Students will use a fun team building activity, to reinforce the concept of the interconnectedness of living things. These connections are necessary for healthy ecosystems, healthy communities (including humans) and a healthy Earth.
Ontario Curriculum Connections
Science and Technology
Understanding Life Systems, Grade 4 (Habitats and Communities)
- analyze the positive and negative impacts of human interactions with natural habitats and communities, taking different perspectives into account, and evaluate ways of minimizing the negative impacts
- build food chains consisting of different plants and animals, including humans
- use scientific inquiry/research skills to investigate ways in which plants and animals in a community depend on features of their habitat to meet important needs
- use appropriate science and technology vocabulary, including habitat, population, community, adaptation, and food chain, in oral and written communication
- identify factors that affect the ability of plants and animals to survive in a specific habitat
- demonstrate an understanding of habitats as areas that provide plants and animals with the necessities of life
- demonstrate an understanding of food chains as systems in which energy from the sun is transferred to producers (plants) and then to consumers (animals)
- classify organisms, including humans, according to their role in a food chain (e.g., producer, consumer, decomposer)
- identify animals that are carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores
- demonstrate an understanding of a community as a group of interacting species sharing a common habitat
- describe structural adaptations that allow plants and animals to survive in specific habitats
- explain why changes in the environment have a greater impact on specialized species than on generalized species
- demonstrate an understanding of why all habitats have limits to the number of plants and animals they can support
- describe ways in which humans are dependent on natural habitats and communities
- use scientific inquiry/research skills to investigate ways in which plants and animals in a community depend on features of their habitat to meet important needs, food, and protection
Understanding Earth and Space Systems, Grade 5 (Conservation of Energy and Resources)
- analyze the long-term impacts on society and the environment of human uses of energy and natural resources, and suggest ways to reduce these impacts
Understanding Life Systems, Grade 6 (Biodiversity)
- describe ways in which biodiversity within and among communities is important for maintaining the resilience of these communities
- describe interrelationships within species, between species and between species and their environment
