It's the Pits! Life in a Restored Gravel Pit

Science Unit 7C - Environment and feeding relationships

‘It’s the pits’ provides a stimulating way to fulfil the requirements of Unit 7c in a combination of four lessons (approx. 50 minutes per lesson), one four-hour practical fieldwork session and one practical session in the lab. Using their own data from fieldwork brings ownership and engagement to the work.

Pupils can learn about a working gravel extraction pit using the ‘Virtual Quarry’ resource and how this could be restored when the extraction is completed. By using secondary resources the pupils can learn about life in a still freshwater habitat and consider how habitats vary within a gravel pit, adaptations to living in different habitats, interactions between plants, animals and environment and feeding adaptations.

They can also design and carry out a fieldwork investigation in a local disused gravel pit, lake or pond and follow this up with the design and execution of individual experiments.

This unit is made up of:

Title		Size	Format
Front Cover		512kb
Teacher introduction		68kb
Learning Objectives and Outcomes - based on adapted QCA unit		88kb
Lesson 1:	Plan	24kb
	Resources	20kb
Lesson 2:	Plan	24kb
	Resources	20kb
Lesson 3:	Plan	24kb
	Coursework follow-up	20kb
Lesson 4:	Plan	28kb
	Resources	20kb
	Class datasheet	248kb
Lesson 5:	Plan	52kb
	Experimental equipment and methods	56kb
Fieldwork investigation:	Plan	28kb
	Resources	60kb
	Sampling methods	36kb
	Recording sheet	20kb
Coursework follow-up to fieldwork:	Coursework follow-up	28kb
	Web Resources	24kb
Entire Unit		680kb