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Predator Hunting Strategies

Understand that predators have evolved hunting strategies — wolves hunt in packs, chameleons use their long tongues, spiders build webs, crocodiles ambush at water's edge — and prey animals have evolved defences — porcupine spines, skunk spray, poison dart frog toxins, zebra stripes confusing predators, playing dead

Lesson

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Link hunting or defence features to an advantage without implying deliberate evolution.

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Activity

Ask the learner to explain one prerequisite idea before starting. If uncertain, revisit it; graph order is not learner readiness.

Policy

Check readiness rather than assuming source graph order establishes attainment.

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Instructions

Use selected animal strategy cards only; no live prey demonstrations.

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Use the supplied stage cards on screen or scrap paper; adult key stays separate.

Materials are ready in each step. Use them on screen or print just the current step. Put teaching examples aside before the learner tries.

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What this lesson covers and its limits

These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.

  • partial: Understand that predators have evolved hunting strategies — wolves hunt in packs, chameleons use their long tongues, spiders build webs, crocodiles ambush at water's edge — and prey animals have evolved defences — porcupine spines, skunk spray, poison dart frog toxins, zebra stripes confusing predators, playing dead

    Bounded objective: Link hunting or defence features to an advantage without implying deliberate evolution. Selected strategy cards only. Zebra-stripe and frog-toxin explanations not verified here and not used as assessment facts.

  • partial: Describes at least 3 predator hunting strategies with examples

    Web/ambush/pack examples supplied with no guarantee.

  • partial: Describes at least 3 prey defence mechanisms with examples

    Spines/spray/stillness concealment examples supplied; limited taxonomy subset.

  • partial: Understands the concept of an 'arms race' between predators and prey

    Co-changing selective advantages modelled, not conscious planning or observed history.

  • partial: If {{name}} watches a nature programme showing a lion hunting, can they describe at least two different ways predators catch food and two ways prey animals defend themselves?

    Try offers supported-model-reasoning for the bounded objective; it does not establish every part of the source assessment. Selected strategy cards only. Zebra-stripe and frog-toxin explanations not verified here and not used as assessment facts.

  • Selected strategy cards only. Zebra-stripe and frog-toxin explanations not verified here and not used as assessment facts.

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PhET Interactive Simulations · Practice link — not the full lesson

Wave on a String

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Wave on a String supports hands-on exploration for Predator Hunting Strategies. Not every lab worksheet.

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Public PhET Interactive Simulations HTML5 page. An anonymous GET on 2026-11-12 returned HTTP 200 with no login or payment prompt for this sim URL. Opening the link does not save practice or assess mastery. The sim is interactive in-browser; Gakuva does not embed or host it.

PhET Interactive Simulations, University of Colorado Boulder. “Wave on a String.” External sim; Gakuva does not copy, host, embed, or redistribute it.

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Check understanding

  • Describes at least 3 predator hunting strategies with examples
  • Describes at least 3 prey defence mechanisms with examples
  • Understands the concept of an 'arms race' between predators and prey
“If your child watches a nature programme showing a lion hunting, can they describe at least two different ways predators catch food and two ways prey animals defend themselves?”

Curriculum record

Type
Conceptual
Subject
Science
Domain
Animals of the World
Age range
Ages 7–9