NSWTR 2024 HR - Flipbook - Page 27
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STAGE 1
REAL-WORLD CONNECTIONS
MAGIC IN A SEED
1. What are seeds and where do they come from?
2. What food do we eat that has seeds or pips inside?
3. What kinds of seeds are food that we can eat?
4. As a class, collect seeds from food (apples, bananas, tomatoes,
peas, beans, oranges, mandarins, corn etc) and from 昀氀owers that
are edible (nasturtiums, parsley, sun昀氀owers, marigolds, pine nuts).
STAGE 1 CONSERVATION
CRISIS! QUESTIONS
5. Make a seed bank by sticking them on a poster in the classroom
with their name. How many seeds can you collect by the end of
Science Week?
1. Did you end up with more
animals or fewer animals by the
end of the game?
6. Draw seeds on the following images:
STRAWBERRY
SNOW PEA
2. Did you end up with more plants
or fewer plants by the end of
the game?
3. Which activities in the cards
allowed you to increase the
number of plant and animal
species in your ecosystem?
4. Which activities caused you to
lose plant and animal species
from your ecosystem?
5. Do you think the chance element
of the cards is something that
happens in nature?
SUNFLOWER
CORN
6. What kinds of things can you do at
home in the garden or at school to
increase the number of plants and
insects that live there?
7. Why do you think it is better to
have more plants and animals in
an ecosystem, rather than fewer?
8. How did you feel about losing
some species compared with
others? Were there species you
wanted to keep more than others?
SHUTTERSTOCK
SAFETY FIRST - DON’T FORGET TO
CHECK IF ANYONE IN YOUR CLASS
HAS ALLERGIES TO DIFFERENT
FOODS. DO NOT BRING FOOD
TO CLASS THAT MIGHT
TRIGGER ALLERGIES.
SPECIES SURVIVAL – MORE THAN JUST SUSTAINABILITY
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