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Lesson Six – Aquarium
This science teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to research and present facts and information about a special type of animal that lives in a marine habitat to explain how they are adapted to this type of environment.
The class can design and produce posters using graphics and text to provide information about a specific type of sea creature to a visitor to an aquarium.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to research and present facts and information about a special type of animal that lives in a marine habitat to explain how they are adapted to this type of environment
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe an animal that lives in a marine habitat, a table display card to collect information to describe an animal that lives in a marine habitat and a template to present collected information about an animal that lives in the sea or on the seashore.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to present facts and information about an animal that lives in a marine habitat.
This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach. 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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