Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Design and plan an allotment together (Yr1).
• Make bird scaring sculptures with found and recycled materials.
• Understand that allotments are habitats and that gardeners attract some mini-beasts to adopt their allotments as their habitats.
• Understand that growing conditions need to be right for plants to grow and what those conditions are (Yr2).

Activities

1. Create an allotment in the playground and plant edible plants.
2. Make bird scaring sculptures with found and recycled materials.
3. Understand that growing conditions need to be right for plants to grow.

Investigation - exploring, problem solving, researching and analysing secondary sources
Understand that allotments are habitats and that gardeners attract some mini-beasts to adopt their allotments as their habitats.
Year 1 - Design and plan an allotment together.
Year 2 - Understand that growing conditions need to be right for plants to grow and what those conditions are.

Vocabulary
Growth, germination, planting, edible, mini-beasts, habitats