Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Become familiar with animals and their babies through matching card activities and discussion.
• Understand that humans are animals and that we produce offspring.
• Plan questions for visitors thinking carefully about what information they want to gather and how to phrase the question accordingly.
• Interact and observe the visitors, recording their answers to questions and gathering information.

Activities

1. Understand that babies can be similar or different to the adults and that humans are animals that produce offspring.
2. Appreciate the importance of well-planned questions and that questions need to be useful for providing the right information.
3. Interact well with visitors and ask questions politely and appropriately.

Investigation - exploring
Plan questions for visitors thinking carefully about what information they want to gather and how to phrase the question accordingly.
Interact and observe the visitors, recording their answers to questions and gathering information.

Vocabulary
Questions, answers, gather, young, old, change and adults