Lesson Six – Sea Plants
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise describing, comparing and sorting some different types of seaweed into matching groups for shape, colour and texture.
The class can practise shaping and combining a selection of paper materials to make a model of some seaweed that might grow in the sea as part of a marine habitat.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise describing, comparing and sorting some different types of seaweed into matching groups for shape, colour and texture
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to describe and compare some of the different types of plants that can grow in the sea and a set of cards to select and sort between different types of seaweed by their colour, shape and texture matching properties.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to compare and sort different types of seaweed into groups for shape, colour and texture.
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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