Lesson One – Winter Garden

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and describe some of the different animals that might visit a garden during the winter for a range of special purposes.

The class can practise completing a survey to record different pieces of information about some of the animals that are visiting an area in the school grounds.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and describe some of the different animals that might visit a garden during the winter for a range of special purposes

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different animals that might visit a garden in the winter and a template to collect and record information about some of the animals that could be seen in a garden habitat during a season of the year.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and describe some of the different animals that might visit a garden habitat during the winter.

This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to explore how animals adapt to the changes to the natural world in the winter including animals that live in Britain and other habitats such as the arctic. 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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