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Activity 3 Trying out new ideas: Amazing
biodiversity

Time: 55 minutes
Objectives

By the end of this lesson learners should be able to: Resources
• recognize that there are different types of plant and animals
• name some animals and plants • cardboard
• understand that plants and animals require different habitats clipboards
to live • pencils
• relate simple life processes to plants and animals found in a • Discovery Hunt
local environment. Worksheet

Teacher guidelines

1. Take the learners outside into the local environment/school
field and spend about the whole period recording on a ‘Plant
– animal’ recording sheet all the plants and animals they can
see. South Africa has a wide variety of plants and animals
that are only found in South Africa that is, they are South
African indigenous plants and animals.

2. Divide the learners into four groups and give each group
a ‘Discovery hunt’ worksheet to complete. Group one will
answer questions 1–3; group 2 answers questions 4–6;
group 3 answers questions 7–9 and group 4 answers
10–12 questions.

3. Explain to learners what they will be doing to complete the
worksheet.
As learners search and find interesting organisms, they
should be thinking about why diversity is important in
general and also in the ecosystem.
Allow 15 to 30 minutes for learners to find the things listed
on the worksheet. Learners should follow the directions at
the top of their worksheets.

4. After the learners have returned from the hunt ask them if
they found or completed everything on the list.
Make sure that they know that it is fine if they did not find
everything.
Have open-ended discussion on why diversity is important.

5. Summarize the lesson by telling learners that there are many
different plants and animals living in different places or
habitats on earth. Explain why it is important to look after
areas that we live in.

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