This science scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to identify, describe and compare different animals that can be found living in a jungle habitat including in the tree canopy and undergrowth. The class can produce posters and presentations to describe what makes a jungle animal special and unique.

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

Lesson One : What Animals

Identify, describe and compare some of the special animals that can be found living in a range of different habitats that are found around the world

Lesson Two : Animal Groups

Practise grouping and classifying different types of animals to illustrate and record their matching habitat locations around the world

Lesson Three : Spider Monkeys

Identify, locate and describe the function of some of the different parts of a spider monkey that can be found living in a jungle habitat

Lesson Four : Macaws

Identify, locate and describe the functions of some of the different parts of a macaw bird that can be found living in a jungle habitat

Lesson Five : Tapirs

Identify and describe a tapir animal that lives in a matching jungle habitat by their special habits, movements and appearance

Lesson Six : Jungle Talk

Conduct and record research into a special type of animal that can be found living in a jungle habitat to show their appearance, habits and movements

Jungle Animals Assessment

Assess abilities in identifying, describing and comparing some of the different animals that can be found living in a jungle habitat

  • Unusual Pets

    Unusual Pets

    Plan and write a narrative story with a familiar setting about a family keeping an unusual animal as a pet

  • Unusual Pet Story

    Unusual Pet Story

    Compose and publish a narrative story with a familiar setting to show some of the problems that an unusual animal might make for a family to solve

  • Pet Story Plans

    Pet Story Plans

    Role-play and record some of the narrative events that might happen in a story about a wild animal that might be kept as a pet by a family

  • Pet Lists

    Pet Lists

    Collect and record sets of vocabulary words that can be used to describe in sentences about how to clean, feed and exercise an unusual animal kept as a pet by a family