I met with my child tutee again on 15 March 2016. Like last time, I focused on food webs and terminology (mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, carnivore, omnivore, herbivore). I made a quiz for him where it showed a picture of an animal and a short description of what its skin is like and what it eats, in hopes that he could guess what kind of animal it was and what kind of eater it was.
As expected, he had difficulty with the concepts. At first, I was sure that it was the terminology that was difficult. However, now, it comes to my mind that perhaps it is the concepts that are difficult for him.
We learned about primary producers and consumers. We also learned about population capacity and equilibrium, though these terms were not used in our lessons. Only the concepts were explored. I did not want to confuse him more with terminology that was too difficult.
For next time, I will quiz him again on mammals/reptiles/amphibians/birds and carnivore/omnivore/herbivore until he understands it 100%.
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