Minibeasts in their microhabitats

Lesson: Science

Our new Science topic 'Living things and their habitats took us outside the classroom today.  

In our first lesson (yesterday) we learnt about things that are alive, dead and those that have never been alive.  We looked at the 7 'Life Processes' that all living things do to show that they are alive.  We used the mnemonic 'MRS GREN' to remember what the processes are.

Movement

Respiration (breathing)

Sensitivity (feeling)

Growth

Reproduction

Excretion (getting rid of waste)

Nutrition (need for food/water)

In today's lesson, we spent a little while in our woodland area hunting for minibeasts in their microhabitats..  We know that habitats are natural homes/places  where animals, plants and other living things live.  We learned today that tiny creatures like insects live in 'microhabitats' so we went on a hunt for some.

We lifted up logs, looked in the grass and soil, looked under fallen leaves, rocks and stones and found lots of different minibeasts like slugs, spiders, ants, woodlice and worms.  We were very careful to put their habitat back to how we found it after we had seen them.