Lesson Five – Under Stones and Logs
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify, describe and count some of the different types of creatures that live in a special habitat that can be found around the school grounds.
The class can practise completing a pictogram to keep a record of the different mini-beasts that have been found and counted in each different habitat.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, describe and count some of the different types of creatures that live in a special habitat that can be found around the school grounds
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the animals that can be found living under stones and logs, a worksheet to count and record numbers of creatures that can be found in a particular habitat in the school grounds and a template to record information about a mini-beast living in a habitat in the school grounds to accompany a model.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to identify and count some of the different types of creatures that live in a habitat in the school grounds.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify and compare some of the different animals that live in the school grounds and make comparisons between animals that live in other habitats. 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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