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Making a bug hotel

Science Year 2
This unit is part of Year 2 Science Habitats

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Objectives

Using the group designs, build a bug hotel in the school grounds. Create microhabitats layers using found materials: for example, sticks, leaves, tubes, moss.

Science Objectives
i) Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive.

ii) Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other.

Working Scientifically

  1. Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways.
  2. Use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
  3. Gather and record data to help answer questions.

Other Curriculum Areas

Design and Technology

  • Make: Select from and use a wide range of materials and components, including construction materials, textiles and ingredients, according to their characteristics.
  • Evaluate: Evaluate their ideas and products against design criteria.

Maths

  • Sequence events in chronological order using language such as: before and after, next, first, today, yesterday, tomorrow, morning, afternoon and evening.

Extended Writing Opportunities
Information text: Create posters to inform people about the microhabitats you have created. Laminate your posters and display alongside the bug hotel.

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Build a bug hotel according to the group designs.
  • Photograph and record the results of the build.
  • Predict what each microhabitat will attract and annotate the photographs with these predictions.
  • Observe over time what happens to the bug hotel.
  • Consider evaluative questions such as: Do any of the microhabitats 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?

Activities

  1. Build a bug hotel according to the group designs.
  2. Make some predictions about what each microhabitat will attract and how different weather conditions and seasons might change their features.
  3. Begin to form questions and make plans to observe and evaluate the microhabitats over time.

Investigation - problem solving
In groups, design a layer of the bug hotel, incorporate specific micro-habitats agreed for that group by the class. Build a bug hotel according to the group designs.

Vocabulary
Micro-habitats, light, dark, shady, damp, dry, seasons, sun

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