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Healthy Places Exploration

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What Makes a Place Healthy?

Healthy ecosystem with plants, animals, and natural elements

🔍 Part 1: Observing Our Environment

1. Look at the photograph of our local environment. List 5 things you can observe:
2. Complete the table by sorting what you observed into living and non-living things:
Living Things (Taiao rauropi) Non-living Things (Taiao kore rauropi)
3. Draw arrows in the space below to show how living and non-living things depend on each other in this environment:

💭 Part 2: Reflection and Understanding

4. What surprised you most about the connections between living and non-living things in this place?
5. Circle the factors that make an environment healthy for living things:

Clean water

Pollution

Fresh air

Food sources

Shelter

Rubbish

6. Exit Ticket: Complete this sentence:

A healthy place needs _________________ because _________________

_________________________________________________________

7. Extension Challenge: If you could improve this environment to make it even healthier, what three changes would you make and why?

🌱 Differentiation Support

For additional support: Work with a partner to discuss your observations before writing them down.

For extension: Research one living thing from your observation and create a mini fact file about how it survives in this environment.

Mana whenua connection: Think about how tangata whenua (local Māori) would have used this environment traditionally. What would they have needed to keep it healthy?

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