Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Understand that creating different micro-habitats will encourage a variety of creatures.
• Understand that some invertebrates like cool, damp conditions and some prefer the sun, so the bug hotel will need to be located to incorporate both conditions.
• Research the making of bug hotels, the type of habitats included in them and what they might attract.
• In groups, design a layer of the bug hotel, incorporating specific micro-habitats agreed for that group by the class.

Activities

1. Understand that creating different micro-habitats will encourage a variety of creatures.
2. Understand that some invertebrates like cool, damp conditions and some prefer the sun, so the bug hotel will need to be located to incorporate both conditions.
3. In groups, design a layer of the bug hotel, incorporating specific micro-habitats agreed for that group by the class.

Investigation - problem solving
Year 1/2 - In groups, design a layer of a bug hotel, incorporating specific micro-habitats agreed for that group by the class.

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