Protecting animals and their habitats | 7–9 years

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Connect your curriculum teaching on habitats to engaging sustainability contexts. This topic web suggests classroom activities linked to protecting the habitats of orangutans and polar bears. 

How does palm oil production affect the orangutan’s habitat? How can we protect polar bears by protecting their icy home? This topic web contains sustainability context ideas and classroom activity suggestions for teaching about living things and their habitats to 7–9 year olds. Explore the habitats of organutans and polar bears, what threats they face, and make links to other science topics such as materials and states of matter.

Each web explains the background science, describes how scientists are working in this field, and suggests ways to explore this in the classroom.

How to use this topic web

This resource is part of our Sustainability contexts for primary science teaching series. The series features a total of 20 topic webs designed to help you link your existing curriculum teaching to sustainability issues.

Find out more about how to use this topic web in your teaching.

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