Lesson One – Autumn Colours
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate and record how the leaves on deciduous trees can change during the autumn season.
The class can name and locate some of the different parts of a tree and explain how each of the parts can help a tree to grow and how they might change during the year,
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to investigate and record how the leaves on deciduous trees can change during the autumn season
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to name and label some of the different parts that can be found on a tree and templates to select and record how trees and their leaves can change between the summer and autumn seasons of the year,
The interactive presentation gets the children to investigate the location and function of different parts found on a tree and explain how the leaves on some trees change during the autumn season.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to investigate changes to different trees during the autumn and explore how this affects animals that live in a woodland habitat including owls and squirrels. 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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