Lesson One – Tools and Equipment

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore how to identify, locate and organise some different lesson tools and equipment that can be found around the classroom.

The class can explain and record where to find and return the named tools and equipment when working in a range of classroom topics and lessons.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to identify, locate and organise some different lesson tools and equipment that can be found around the classroom

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different objects that can be used in the classroom, a set of cards to select and locate tools and equipment that can be found around the classroom and a worksheet to identify and find a range of different objects located in the classroom.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to identify, locate and organise some different lesson tools and equipment that can be found around the classroom.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify the location and function of different objects used in the classroom and explore how to formulate rules to manage the classroom safely. 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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