You Will Need
Provided Resources
- Bug Hotels resource
Additional Resources
- Internet access and devices
- Sheets of paper
- Large sheets of cardboard
Weblinks
How to build a bug hotel from the Wildlife Trusts
Building a bug hotel from the RSPB
Designing a bug hotel
Science Year 2
This unit is part of
Year 2 Science Habitats
Objectives
Drawing on your knowledge of habitats, design a bug hotel! Incorporate many different microhabitats to encourage a variety of guests.
Science Objectives
i) Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive.
ii) Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other.
Working Scientifically
- Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways.
- Identify and classify.
- Use observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
- Gather and record data to help answer questions.
Other Curriculum Areas
Design and Technology
- Design: Design purposeful, functional, appealing products for themselves and other users based on design criteria.
Maths
- Sequence events in chronological order using language such as: before and after, next, first, today, yesterday, tomorrow, morning, afternoon and evening.
Art
- Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Understand that creating different micro-habitats will encourage a variety of creatures.
- Understand that some invertebrates like cool, damp conditions and some prefer the sun, so the bug hotel will need to be located to incorporate both conditions.
- Research the making of bug hotels, the type of habitats included in them and what they might attract.
- In groups, design a layer of the bug hotel. Incorporate specific micro-habitats agreed for that group by the class.
Activities
- Understand that creating different microhabitats will encourage a variety of creatures.
- Understand that microhabitats need to vary according to their inhabitants’ needs.
- Design a 'room' (microhabitat) of the bug hotel.
Investigation - problem solving
In groups, design a layer of the bug hotel, incorporate specific micro-habitats agreed for that group by the class. Build a bug hotel according to the group designs.
Vocabulary
Micro-habitats, light, dark, shady, damp, dry, seasons, sun