Lesson Five – Tapirs
This science teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and describe a tapir animal that lives in a matching jungle habitat by their special habits, movements and appearance.
The class can select and compose sentences to explain how and why tapirs live in a jungle habitat by describing the functions of different parts of their body.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and describe a tapir animal that lives in a matching jungle habitat by their special habits, movements and appearance
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the functions of different parts of a jungle mammal, a shared reading text to describe a type of jungle animal by their matching habits, movements and appearance and a worksheet to select and compose sentences to describe a tapir that lives in a jungle habitat by the function of their body parts.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and describe a type of jungle animal by their matching habits, movements and appearance.
This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare some of the different animals that can be found living in a jungle habitat including in the tree canopy and undergrowth. 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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