Lesson One – Washing, Cleaning and Drinking
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate, describe and role-play some of the different uses of water at home that families can use for washing, cleaning or drinking.
The class can identify and sort different ways that families might use water into matching groups of actions to show how and why water is very important to a family home.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate, describe and role-play some of the different uses of water at home that families can use for washing, cleaning or drinking
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify different ways that families might use water at home, a set of cards to sort different uses of water at home for washing, cleaning or drinking and a template to record one way that families can use water at home for different purposes.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the different uses of water at home for washing, cleaning or drinking.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to investigate and describe different sources and uses of water at home by families to understand its importance in the world. 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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