Creatures on the forest floor

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Rainforests - NEW LOOK Creatures of the Rainforest

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Objectives

Geography

Describe and understand key aspects of physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts.

Design and Technology

Select from and use materials, including construction materials and textiles, according to their functional properties and aesthetic qualities.

Lesson Planning

Make group dioramas of the understory layer and the forest floor of the rainforest, including the creatures found in these layers.

Teaching Outcomes:

To research, and become familiar with, the creatures living in the lower layers of the rainforest.
To make group dioramas of understory layer and forest floor of the rainforest in shoe boxes, including the creatures found in these layers.

Children will:

Research, and become familiar with, the creatures living in the lower layers of the rainforest.
Make group dioramas of understory layer and forest floor of the rainforest in shoe boxes, including the creatures found in these layers.

Planning

Provided Resources

How to make a Rainforest diorama

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Tubes
Shoe boxes
Scissors
Pipe cleaners

Weblinks

Forest floor detailed information from stri.si.edu
Forest floor information from mongabay.com
Information on each rainforest layer from caltech.edu
The forest floor and understory layer -YouTube clip