Lesson Six – Mini-beast Encyclopaedia
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise selecting and recording information about some of the animals that can be found living in some different places around the school grounds.
The class can draw pictures and complete categories to show how different mini-beasts are special in terms of their body parts and colours.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise selecting and recording information about some of the animals that can be found living in some different places around the school grounds
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and compare mini-beasts that can be found living in different habitats in the school grounds and a template to select and record information about mini-beasts to describe their body parts and colours.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record information about some of the animals that live in different places in the school grounds.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify and compare some of the different animals that live in the school grounds and make comparisons between animals that live in other habitats. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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