Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Build a bug hotel according to the group designs.
• Predict what each micro-habitat will attract and annotate the photographs with these predictions.
• Observe over time what happens to the bug hotel.
• Evaluate their micro-habitat.

Activities

1. Build a bug hotel according to the group designs
2. Predict what each micro-habitat will attract and observe over time
3. Consider evaluative questions such as: do any of the micro-habitats need adapting? Are they being successful? How do we know? Does the weather or do the seasons make a difference to the occupancy of the bug hotel? Do we predict it will be more or less popular when it is raining? Or in the summer?

Investigation - seeking patterns
Predict what each micro-habitat will attract and annotate the photographs with these predictions.
Year 1 - Observe over time what happens to the bug hotel.
Year 2 - Evaluate their micro-habitat.

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