How do we protect?

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Animal Protectors

Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.
  • Talk about the features of the immediate environment and how environments might vary from one another.
  • Make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.
  • Sing songs, make music and dance, and experiment with ways of changing them.

Lesson Planning

Introduce endangered animals and think about the part humans play in this. Watch a video clip on habitats and endangered animals and find out ways to help. Small world animal sorting, matching fur to animal, painting, using instruments to be different animals.

Teaching Outcomes
To understand the wider world and how they can play their part in it. Understanding that some animals are endangered.

Children will:

  • Understand that animals live in different environments (habitats).
  • Know some animals that are endangered.
  • Understand what these animals need to be safe.
  • Enjoy and learn a song, joining in with the part they know and suggesting changes.

Provided Resources

  • Pictures of endangered animals
  • Close up animal fur pictures

You Will Need

  • Small world zoo and farm animals
  • Hoops
  • Zig-zag books
  • Fiction and non-fiction books
  • Percussion instruments