Save our wildlife!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Animal Protectors

Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Play co-operatively, taking turns with others.
  • Take account of one another’s ideas about how to organise an activity.
  • 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.
  • Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

Lesson Planning

Watch a video about British wildlife and their habitats. Discuss local changes that may have affected their local wildlife. Transform the outside classroom into a wildlife area and become local animal protectors by planting wild flowers, making hedgehog homes, bird food and ponds!

Teaching Outcomes
To understand how they can play their part in helping local wildlife and look after their environment and the things in it.

Children will:

  • Combine knowledge to make a suitable animal habitat.
  • Understand how important it is to look after our local environment.
  • Choose resources for different jobs.

Provided Resources

This session does not need any provided resources.

You Will Need

  • Extra adults
  • Sand timer
  • Resources to make animal habitats, e.g. straw, hay, stones, cardboard boxes, newspaper, other junk modelling
  • Oranges
  • String
  • Bird food
  • Melted lard/solid vegetable fat
  • Tyres
  • Pond lining
  • Stones