Lesson Four – Animal Groups
This computing teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise searching for information and facts about different wild animals in a prepared database using a range of selected criteria fields.
The class can explain and model how and why they have sorted sets of animals into matching groups for their appearance and habitats around the world.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise searching for information and facts about different wild animals in a prepared database using a range of selected criteria fields
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify groups of animals to match different criteria for appearance and habitats and a set of cards to search a database to find and record groups of animals to match different criteria.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to search for information about different animals in a database using selected criteria.
This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to explore how to use a computer database to store, organise and interrogate data and information about different animals that live wild 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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