Optional sustainability lesson: How can we welcome animals on the school grounds?

Understanding how to help local animals by making places for them to live.

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Learning objective

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EYFS outcomes

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Before the lesson

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Activity

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Support and challenge

  • Support the children by offering limited choices to make the animal homes.
  • Challenge the children to explain why they placed each picture into alive and non-living in the Recap and recall.
  • Challenge the children to design their own animal habitat using natural materials they find on the nature walk.
  • Challenge the children to keep an animal log by drawing or writing about any animals they spot over the next few days.

Key vocabulary

  • alive

  • home

  • non-living

  • notice

  • observe

  • sort

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Kapow Primary, 
Geography specialist
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