Lesson One – Building Shops
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and describe some of the special materials that can be used to design and build a range of different shop fronts.
The class can devise a model shop front to indicate some of the special products that might be for sale inside in the building for customers to buy for different purposes.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and describe some of the special materials that can be used to design and build a range of different shop fronts
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify vocabulary that can be used to describe common materials, a set of cards to select and sort different types of materials into groups by their matching common types and a template to record the design for the front of a particular type of shop built from different materials.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the different materials that can be used on a range of shop fronts.
This lesson is part of topic scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe the layout of different types of shops by role-playing running a classroom shop to sell a range of products made by the class. 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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