Lesson One – Sandcastles
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise using sand to create and describe some different shapes and patterns that might be seen on a sandcastle built on a sandy beach.
The class can identify and describe some of the 3D shapes that can be moulded when making different parts of a sandcastle such as cuboids for the walls and cones for the turrets.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using sand to create and describe some different shapes and patterns that might be seen on a sandcastle built on a sandy beach
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the shapes that can be used to make different sandcastles and a vocabulary word bank to practise using sand to create and describe some of the shapes that might be seen on a sandcastle.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use sand to create and describe different shapes and patterns that might be seen on a sandcastle.
This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to select and use a range of different natural materials found on a beach to produce some model sculptures on the theme of the seaside. 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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