Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Observe the allotment, paying close attention to the living things that can be found there.
• Consider why they are there and how they are surviving.
• Consider how to create micro-habitats to encourage these mini-beasts.
• Understand that different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds mini-beasts and plants and that they depend on each other (Yr2).
• Make micro-habitats to encourage certain mini-beasts. Create the right conditions to attract those specific living things (Yr2).

Activities

1. Understand what needs consideration when creating micro-habitats.
2. Understand that different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of mini-beasts and plants and that they depend on each other (Yr2).
3. Make micro-habitats to encourage certain mini-beasts and create the right conditions to attract those specific living things (Yr2).

Investigation
Observe the allotment, paying close attention to the living things that can be found there. Consider why they are there.
Year 1 - Consider how to create micro-habitats to encourage these mini-beasts.
Year 2 - Understand that different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds mini-beasts and plants and that they depend on each other. Make micro-habitats to encourage certain mini-beasts. Create the right conditions to attract those specific living things.

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