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Environment exploration

Science Year 1
This unit is part of Year 1 Science Our Pets

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Objectives

Go on an exploration around the school grounds, looking at animals' behaviours and habitats. Talk about the behaviour patterns you can see and consider: do similar animals live in similar places?

Science Objectives
i) Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.

Working Scientifically

  1. Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways.
  2. Observe closely, using simple equipment.
  3. Identify and classify.
  4. Use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
  5. Gather and record data to help answer questions.

You Will Need

Provided Resources

  • Science Dictionary resource
  • Mini-beasts and their special places resource

Additional Resources

  • Bug collecting boxes & magnifying glasses
  • Clipboards
  • Cameras
  • Sketch books and pencils

Weblinks
 BBC Bitesize videoclip: 3.36 mins from www.bbc.co.uk

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 observations and annotate to show understanding and learning.

Activities

  1. Understand that there are special places (habitats) where mini-beasts (invertebrates) live.
  2. Ask questions about what they find and compare information with each other.
  3. Talk about whether they have noticed any patterns of where living things grow or live.
  4. Make a visual record of their observations in drawings and photographs and annotate to show their understanding and learning.

Investigation - pattern seeking
Use observation skills to look closely at creatures in the school grounds.
Make a visual record of their observations in drawings and photographs and annotate to show their understanding and learning.

Vocabulary
Notice, patterns, behaviour, habitat, living things, damp, shady, dry, vertebrate, invertebrate, backbone

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