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The following lessons are optional pre-visit activities that can be used to introduce relevant content and concepts before your excursion.
Lesson 1
Lesson 1
Lesson title: School habitat hunt
Lesson title: School habitat hunt
Syllabus:
Syllabus:
Stage 1: Science and Technology (2024)
Stage 1: Science and Technology (2024)
Outcomes:
ST1-SCI-01 - Measures and describes changes in living things, materials, movement, Earth and the sky
ST1-DAT-01 - Collects, represents and uses data to identify patterns and relationships
Content:
Living things change over time
Recognise that data can be collected through observation, testing and research, and that it can be represented as descriptions, diagrams, graphs, images and tables
Collect data about the variety of living things in a local habitat, group them and justify the groupings
Learning intention:
Learning intention:
I am learning to collect data on living things.
Success criteria:
Success criteria:
I can
Identify trees, shrubs, flowers, worms, insects and birds.
Tally trees, shrubs, flowers, worms, insects and birds.
Lesson plan
Lesson plan
Introduction:
Today we are going to go on a school habitat hunt. What is a habitat?
Our school is a habitat or home for lots of different living things. Can you tell me what living things you have seen in our school?
We are going to go on a hunt to find some of these living things and we're going to record or 'collect data' on these living things using a worksheet.
Activity:
Distribute the School habitat hunt worksheet (below). Discuss the external features of each plant and animal so that students are able to confidently identify them while out in the school yard.
Take the students on a nature walk around the school to observe different living things. Ask students to tally the different types of plants and animals in the relevant square on their worksheet.
Once complete, discuss the different living things the students found and their features.
Materials: School habitat hunt worksheet, clipboards, pens/pencils.
Student worksheet
Student worksheet
Stage 1 Science School habitat hunt - Student worksheet.pdfLesson 2
Lesson 2
Lesson title: Create a creature
Lesson title: Create a creature
Syllabus:
Syllabus:
Stage 1: Science and Technology (2024)
Stage 1: Science and Technology (2024)
Outcomes:
ST1-SCI-01 - Measures and describes changes in living things, materials, movement, Earth and the sky
Content:
Living things change over time
Describe the changes in an animal as it goes through its life cycle using data and scientific models
Learning intention:
Learning intention:
I am learning to understand the features of living things.
Success criteria:
Success criteria:
I can:
Create an animal with clay and natural materials that show its external features.
Describe the different features of my animal.
Describe how the features of my animal may change through its life cycle.
Lesson plan
Lesson plan
Introduction:
Discuss the different animals found during the school habitat hunt lesson.
Explain to students that they are going to make one of the animals they saw on their habitat hunt using clay and natural materials found in the school.
Activity:
Choose two or three animals mentioned during the animal hunt. For example, bird, ant or dragonfly.
Discuss the different features of each animal. Use the teacher resource below to assist with this.
Demonstrate to students how to create a clay animal using clay and natural materials found around the school. For example, sticks, seed pods, leaves, small rocks.
Distribute clay and allow students time to create their animals.
Have students present their animals to the class with an emphasis on identifying the animals external features. Students should also consider how these external features may change over time through the animal's life cycle.
Note: The Illawarra EEC Habitat Heroes Lesson 2 Create a Creature web page contains videos and images that may assist with this lesson.
Materials: Labelled animals teacher resource, clay (or playdough), natural materials (sticks, seed pods, leaves, small rocks).
Teacher resource
Teacher resource
Stage 1 Science labelled animals - Teacher resource .pdfLesson 3
Lesson 3
Lesson title: How do living things change as they grow?
Lesson title: How do living things change as they grow?
Syllabus:
Syllabus:
Stage 1: Science and Technology (2024)
Stage 1: Science and Technology (2024)
Outcomes:
ST1-SCI-01 - Measures and describes changes in living things, materials, movement, Earth and the sky
Content: Living things change over time
Describe the changes in an animal as it goes through its life cycle using data and scientific models
Learning intention:
Learning intention:
I am learning to understand the life cycles of living things.
Success criteria:
Success criteria:
I can:
Colour in an illustration of the life cycle of a frog.
Describe the different stages of the life cycle of a frog.
Describe how the life cycle of a frog is different to the life cycle of a dragonfly.
Lesson plan
Lesson plan
Introduction:
Introduce the idea to students that when living things grow, they often change at different stages of their lives. For example, a caterpillar. Who remembers the book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar. How did the caterpillar change during the book?
Can you think of any other examples of animals that change during the different stages of their lives?
Activity:
Explain to the students that they are going to learn about the changes that occur during a frog's life cycle.
Watch the following video reading from the book 'From Tadpole to Frog'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mmx1LMuvSCo
Discuss the different stages of the life cycle of a frog.
Distribute the colour in worksheet (below) to students for colouring.
Show students the following presentation on dragonflies. https://british-dragonflies.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Dragonflies-Presentation.pdf
Complete the activities on the life cycle of a dragonfly in the worksheet provided on this website. https://www.sparklebox.co.uk/previews/10851-10875/sb10862-dragonfly-growth-cut-stick-activity.html
Discuss the differences between the life cycle of a frog and the life cycle of a dragonfly.
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