Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Understand that there are common features in animals that make good pets.
• Consider what is involved in keeping a real pet happy and healthy.
• Imagine what sort of care and environment their home-made pet might like the most, by considering its needs and features.
• Draw up a list: 'Looking after my Pet' and talk about their pet, so as to demonstrate their understanding of what makes an animal happy and healthy.

Activities

1. Consider what is involved in keeping a real pet happy and healthy.
2. Imagine what sort of care and environment their home-made pet might like the most, based on its features.
3. Draw up a list: 'Looking after my Pet'.
4. Make a pet based on their design.

Investigation - exploring
Consider what is involved in keeping a real pet happy and healthy.
Observe different pets in the classroom.
Study their similarities and differences and what features they have in common that make them good pets.

Vocabulary
Birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, invertebrates, group, classify, compare, similarities, differences