Lesson One – Farm Animals
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate, describe and compare some of the different animals that can be found living on a farm to show how they can produce items for the farmer to sell at a market.
The class can select and make lists of animals that can match different criteria such as differences in their sizes or their roles in food production.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate, describe and compare some of the different animals that can be found living on a farm to show how they can produce items for the farmer to sell at a market
Activities in this teaching pack include describe and compare some of the different animals that can be found living on a farm and name matching foods produced by each type of animal and a set of cards to select and sort between types of animals that live on a farm for a range of criteria.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to describe and compare some of the different animals that can be found living 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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