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Lesson 6: Amazon explorers

Creating an explorer’s podcast to discover the animals of the rainforest.
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Explorer with binoculars in the Amazon rainforest

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Lesson plan

1. Recap and recall

Show the Pupil video: Rainforest layers. Pause the video (at 0:30) and ask if the children can recall the names of the animals found on the forest floor.

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In this unit

Assessment – Spanish Y4: The Amazon rainforestLesson 1: Where is the Amazon rainforest?Lesson 2: Exploring the rainforestLesson 3: Amazing Amazon animalsLesson 4: Animal anatomyLesson 5: Which rainforest animal am I?
Lesson 6: Amazon explorers
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