Lesson Four – Tadpole to Frog

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore, describe and record the life cycle of one type of animal that can be found living in a pond habitat to show how it grows and changes over time.

The class can create and sequence the main stages in the life cycle of a frog as they grow and change from a tadpole in a pond habitat location.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore, describe and record the life cycle of one type of animal that can be found living in a pond habitat to show how it grows and changes over time

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify the sequence of events in the life cycle of animal that lives in a pond habitat, a set of cards to sequence the stages in the life cycle of a frog from a tadpole and differentiated templates to identify and record the life cycle of a frog using picture illustrations and word phrases.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore, describe and record the life cycle of one type of animal that lives in a pond habitat.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to identify and describe some of the different bodies of water that can be found around the world including the plants and animals that live in each habitat. 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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