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Water training!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Animal Protectors

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Know the importance for good health of physical exercise, and a healthy diet, and talk about ways to keep healthy and safe.
  • Use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems.
  • Explore characteristics of everyday objects and shapes and use mathematical language to describe them.
  • Know about similarities and differences in relation to places, objects, materials and living things.
  • Make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.

Lesson Planning

Continue with their Animal Protector training and learn how important water is to animals and us. Measure and compare capacities. Order containers, make animal footprints in paint and watch a video clip of elephants learning to use their trunk in water.

Teaching Outcomes
To solve problems involving capacity. To realise how important water is to keep animals and us healthy.

Children will:

  • Learn what we need to keep animals and ourselves healthy.
  • Make estimates about capacity.
  • Measure the capacity of containers.

Provided Resources

  • Instruction sheet for giving water to animals
  • Ordering water bowls sheet

You Will Need

  • Measuring jug
  • Tuff spot
  • Glitter
  • Small world animals
  • Sorting/counting animals
  • Water container
  • Syringes
  • Cups
  • Plastic measuring cylinders
  • Post-it notes
  • Large paper to cover table
  • Paint

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