Lesson Three – Ponds
This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a pond habitat in the local area.
The class can select and illustrate some of the special living things that live beside or in a pond that have been observed when on a class visit to this special location.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a pond habitat in the local area
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different plants and animals that live by or in a pond and a worksheet to record some of the different plants and animals that can be found living by or in a pond during a class visit.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that live 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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