Lesson Planning

Look at changes the children have gone through in their lives. Discuss the things that they can do now, that they couldn’t do when they were a baby. Observe changes in themselves and their friends. Look at how baby animals change as they get older and think about why they need to change. Explore the life cycle of a frog, order the stages of an animal’s life by looking at changes and use a writing frame to sound out noises that a baby animal might make.

Teaching Outcomes
To observe how animals and humans change as they get older and think about reasons for these changes.

Children will:

• Learn that animals and human babies change as they get older.
• Observe and discuss these changes and why they might need to happen.
• Begin to understand the life cycle of some animals.