Lesson Four – Butterfly Symmetry
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore how to create and record examples of some of the special shapes, patterns and colours that might be seen on a pair of butterfly wings.
The class can design and make posters to illustrate different symmetrical patterns that might seen on a butterfly visiting a garden area in the school grounds.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to create and record examples of some of the special shapes, patterns and colours that might be seen on a pair of butterfly wings
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the special shapes, colours and patterns that can be seen on different butterflies and a worksheet to locate and record some of the different butterflies that can be seen around the school grounds.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record examples of some of the special shapes, patterns and colours that might be seen on butterfly wings.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to Investigate, describe and compare some of the different butterflies that can be found living in a garden area in the school grounds. 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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