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 their observations and annotate to show understanding and learning (Yr1).
• Annotate drawings of their observations with scientific questions, develop lines of enquiry (Yr2).

Activities

1. Carefully observe creatures in the school grounds, generate questions and notice patterns
2. Make a visual record of their observations, annotate to show understanding and learning (Yr1)
3. Annotate drawings of their observations with scientific questions and develop lines of enquiry (Yr2)
4. Understand that there are special places (habitats) where mini-beasts (invertebrates) live

Investigation - pattern seeking
Use observation skills to look closely at creatures outside. Understand that there are special places (habitats) where mini-beasts (invertebrates) live. Carefully observe creatures outside, generate questions, notice patterns, make a visual record of their observations, annotate to show understanding.
Year 1 - Make a visual record of their observations; annotate to show understanding and learning.
Year 2 - Annotate drawings of their observations with scientific questions and develop lines of enquiry.

Vocabulary
Notice, patterns, behaviour, habitat, living things, damp, shady, dry