The Atlantic: under the waves

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Oceans and Seas Atlantic Underwater World

Objectives

Science

  • Identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
  • Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited.

Art

  • Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
  • Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
  • Develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.

Lesson Planning

Role-play exploring the seabed. Use ‘sea cave’ feely boxes to investigate using sense of touch. Create a self-portrait as a scuba diver.

Teaching Outcomes
To use the sense of touch to describe the material properties of objects in a feely box, using observations and own experience to inform identification.
To create a self portrait of a deep sea diver, using photomontage techniques.
To know some of the features of the undersea landscape and use correct geographical vocabulary to describe them.

Children will:

  • Develop an understanding of the landscapes of the Atlantic Ocean’s seabed.
  • Draw upon the sense of touch to make observations and predictions.
  • Creat self-portraits as scuba divers using photographs and simple montage techniques.
  • Listen to whale and dolphin songs as examples of how animals communicate beneath the waves.

Provided Resources

  • Scuba diver image
  • Sea caves prediction chart
  • How to make a scuba diver portrait

You Will Need

  • Craft materials as listed on how to make a scuba diver portrait
  • Atlas
  • Digital camera and printer
  • 4 feely boxes decorated as sea caves
  • 4 sea-related mystery objects