The task in this lesson is to investigate plant adaptations and how plants have adapted to suit a tropical rainforest environment.
Plant adaptations learning objectives
- Know what plants need to survive
- Know the challenges a plant living in a tropical rainforest encounters
- Investigate and be able to recall how plants are adapted to suit this environment
- Understand that over time plant adaptation may lead to evolution
Starter activity
Explain that pupils will travel thousands of miles without leaving the classroom in this lesson. They will shortly be boarding the aircraft to travel to a mystery destination.
You have packed their bags and need a volunteer to model the contents of the rucksack. Can the class guess where they are going? It may be to a specific country within the tropics or tropical rainforests in general.
As humans we can change what we wear to suit our environment; contrast this with plants. Plants have to change or adapt over time by a process of evolution to survive.
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