Lesson Six – Woodland Owls
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore and make models using a range of materials showing a type of animal that lives in the trees found in a woodland habitat.
The class can name and describe how owls can use different parts of their body when hunting for food and living in different trees as part of a woodland habitat.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to explore and make models using a range of materials showing a type of animal that lives in the trees found in a woodland habitat
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to learn and define key vocabulary words about a type of animal that lives in a woodland habitat and a template to make a collage picture of a woodland owl using a range of different materials.
The interactive presentation gets the children to name, locate and describe different parts of an owl and suggest how they can use a woodland habitat to search for and collect foods.
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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