Lesson 2: Describing minibeasts

Finding and describing minibeasts on the school grounds.

Learning objective

EYFS outcomes

Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Support and challenge

Adults can use the opportunity to:

  • Share the Resource: Minibeast photos before the lesson to learn the names of unfamiliar minibeasts and describe some simple body parts, such as head, wings and legs.
  • Look at small world insects with the children, providing them with tangible objects to explore and compare.
  • Encourage the pupils to draw where they found different minibeasts (e.g. drawing a log with a woodlouse underneath and a ladybird in the grass).
  • Encourage the pupils to count the number of different minibeasts found.

Key vocabulary

  • compare

  • minibeast

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