Lesson Three – Ponds
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate and record information about some of the different types of animals that can be found living in a pond habitat in the school grounds.
The class can make and label a model using a range of materials of an insect that lives by or in a pond habitat to show their unique characteristics and appearance.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate and record information about some of the different types of animals that can be found living in a pond habitat in the school grounds
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the special animals that can e found living in a pond habitat and a set of cards to select and label some models of pond animals to identify their different body parts.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the different types of animals that can be found living in a pond 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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