Lesson Four – Trees and Bushes

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explain and model how to locate and identify some different types of animals that live in a special habitat found around the school grounds.
The class can select and record information about one of the mini-beasts that they have identified around the school to name their body parts and colours by labelling illustrations.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explain and model how to locate and identify some different types of animals that live in a special habitat found around the school grounds
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different animals that live in a wooded habitat, a worksheet to search for different creatures that can be found living in a wooded habitat in the school grounds and a template to record the names and parts of one of the creatures found living in the school grounds.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to locate and identify different types of animals 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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