Lesson Four – Baby Chicks
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate, describe and record some of the different ways of looking after baby chicks that hatch from eggs when growing on a farm.
The class can identify and sequence a range of different events to show how a farmer can hatch eggs into chicks using some special tools and equipment to keep the eggs warm and protected.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate, describe and record some of the different ways of looking after baby chicks that hatch from eggs when growing on a farm
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how to care for baby chicks that are hatched on a farm, a worksheet to select and record some of the special ways of caring for baby chicks and a template to produce a collage picture of a farm animal using a range of different materials.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record some of the different ways of looking after baby chicks that can hatch on a farm.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe some of the changes to farm animals that occur during the spring and jobs performed by the farmer during this season of the year. 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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