Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Plan and carry out an observation in the school grounds.
• Ask questions and discuss findings and patterns.
• Make a visual record of observations and annotate to show understanding and learning.

Activities

1. Understand that there are special places (habitats) where mini-beasts (invertebrates) live.
2. Ask questions about what they find and compare information with each other.
3. Talk about whether they have noticed any patterns of where living things grow or live.
4. Make a visual record of their observations in drawings and photographs and annotate to show their understanding and learning.

Investigation - pattern seeking
Use observation skills to look closely at creatures in the school grounds.
Make a visual record of their observations in drawings and photographs and annotate to show their understanding and learning.

Vocabulary
Notice, patterns, behaviour, habitat, living things, damp, shady, dry, vertebrate, invertebrate, backbone