Natural history film

Topics Year 4/5

Objectives

Science

  • Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago.
  • Identify how animals are adapted to their environment.

English

  • Summarise and present in his/her own words.

Lesson Planning

Make a film about footprint investigations, which informs others about what you have learned in this block.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To apply learning about fossil footprints.
  • To make a natural history film about a footprint investigation.

Children will:

  • Demonstrate how to record a footprint.
  • Demonstrate how to tell the height and speed of an animal from its footprint.
  • Demonstrate how to ID the species that made a footprint and what that tells us about the environment.

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.