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Teacher guidelines
Resources
• Dictionaries
• ‘B-I-O-D-I-V-E-R-
S-T-Y’ letters on
cardboard
• Magazines,
newspapers, travel
brochures, old
calendars, etc.
• ‘Biodiversity Counts’
Datasheet
• pencils
Keywords
Biodiversity is actually
a contraction of
‘biological’ and
‘diversity’.
Bio = a prefi x meaning
life (plants and
animals)
Diversity = a variety of
things (lots of different
plants and anima
Useful Websites
Show learners the video
on biodiversity:
https://www.youtube.
com/watch?v=ErAT-
B1aMiSU
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1. Preparation: Using the letters from the word biodiversity,
draw A4 sized letter outlines on pieces of cardboard or print
the letter on hard copier paper. Cut out each letter and mix
them. You will need one set of letters per group.
2. Ask learners to work in groups of 3-5 and distribute the
letters from the word ‘B-I-O-D-I-V-E-R-S-T-Y’, one set per
group. At this stage don’t tell them what the word actually is.
3. Ask the learners to rearrange the letters to make a word. If
the learners are having difficulty you may need to provide
clues like starts with a ‘b’ ends with a ‘y’ and so on.
4. Once they have made the word, learners create a biodiversity
collage by covering each letter with pictures of indigenous
plants, animals and the places they live. Pictures can be
obtained from newspapers, magazines, travel brochures
and calendars.
5. Ask groups to write down their own definition of the word.
6. Distribute the dictionary to the groups and ask learners
to use the dictionary to check the meaning of the word
‘biodiversity’.
7. Decide on a class definition for biodiversity. For example
biodiversity could be described as ‘the different kinds
of plants and animals and the places they live’ (check
background notes on definition).
8. Refer back to the ‘Biodiversity’ collage to illustrate the
components of biodiversity that are described in the
definition.
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