G5_UnderstandingEnvironment_2019-2020

Questions to Ask your Child Home Learning Suggested Home Extensions Key Vocabulary gy, economics, politics and culture. ● How is an ecosystem like a human community? ● What are the causes of species endangerment? ● How are ecosystems rehabilitated? ● How do writers communicate the story of choices and their effects? Watch documentaries produced by naturalists that explain how ecosystems work and discuss ways in which those ecosystems may affect your family directly and indirectly. Recommend BBC programs such as Planet Earth, Our Planet and similar series. Research and discover together the biology and uniqueness of the plants we eat at home. Spend time in natural settings observing the living organisms around them. Make an effort to contribute meaningfully as a family to a reforestation or animal conservation program Research and design a sustainable micro-ecosystem for your room Ecosystem, population, organism, producers, consumer, food web, food chain, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, water cycle, habitat, niche, adaptation, symbiosis, predator, prey, species, alien species, native (or endemic) species, endangered, threatened, extinct, human impact, deforestation