Key Stage 2 Geography/Science resource 3: Marine food webs and sustainable fishing

Activity summary / Global Learning opportunities / National Curriculum links
This activity uses the Digital Explorer SustainableFisheries site, featuring a downloadable resource booklet for Key Stage 2 Science.
Pupils investigate overfishing:
●Activity2 focuses on marine food chains and webs and the effect of removing species: pupils explain how the removal of species for human consumption affects the rest of a marine food chain or web.
●Activity 3 includes an investigation on the advantages and disadvantages of different fishing techniques. / GLP-E themes and outcomes:
●Interdependence
●Sustainability
●Enquiry and critical thinking / Geography
●Know about diverse environments and key physical and human processes.
●Understand the distribution of natural resources, including food.
●Use maps, atlases and globes to locate and describe features.
●Interpret a range of sources of geographical information.
Science
Year 4 animals, including humans:
●Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey.
Development
This unit may be:
●used to develop work inScience on investigating contrasting local environments
●adapted or developed through work inGeography:
  • Using the School of Fish website to investigate local, UK and global sources of fish, and the importance of sustainable global fishing. This site is packed with interactive activities and ideas for work in a range of subjects (including literacy and numeracy) and assemblies.
  • Developing a more global dimension by using BBC Learning Zone to compare overfishing and its impact in two contrasting environments, e.g. The NorthSea and Philippines or other location; or adapting the It Makes You Think: World Fisheries activity.
  • Be linked with wider investigations into sources of food in Geography and Science, for example by adapting the It Makes You Think: Global Food Market.

English opportunities
Reading:
●Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction.
●Explain and discuss their understanding of what they have read.
●Participate in discussions, building on their own and others’ ideas and provide reasoned justifications for their views. / Mathematics opportunities
Statistics:
●Interpret and present data using graphs and tables, using these to solve problems. / Critical thinkingopportunities
●Ask and respond to a range of questions, as part of an investigation.
●Explain, reason and think about evidence.
●Express a point of view, understand that people have different points of view, and engage with these through discussion.

Acknowledgements: This overview is adapted from work for the Global Learning Programme by ASE.

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