Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Ask questions about the local habitats and to carefully observe and record the living things in the local area.

Activities

1. Ask questions about local habitats and consider how to answer them.
2. Take a trip within their local environment (the school grounds or further if possible).
3. Carefully observe the micro-habitats they can see around them.
4. Record different living things they can see (animals and plants).
5. Gather a small sample of different leaves and photos/notes of different animals.

Investigation - exploring, sorting, classifying and identifying
Observe local habitats and record living things they see around them.

Vocabulary
Habitat, living thing, alive, dead, never been alive, plant, animal, insect, local, natural, man-made, observation, record, vertebrate, invertebrate, arachnid, question