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environment.
2. Name some plants and animals and understand they require different
habitats to live.
environment.
National Curriculum
Resources
Teaching activities
Introduction
Ask the children to name some plants and animals found locally. Make two
headings on the whiteboard, Plants and Animals, and ask children to add their
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contribution to the correct place. What is different about plants and animals? What
is the same?
Activity
Select Plants and animals in the local environment from the KS2 Bitesize website.
Explain they are going to spot some wildlife. Ask the children to predict where an
animal might be found. Why there? Select a child to spot and click on the wildlife.
Click on each magnifying glass and read through the information. Explain any
unfamiliar words. Click on Sorter 1 and show the children how the plants and
animals can be sorted by where they were found. Complete this activity. Click on
Sorter 2 and explain the living thing has to be matched with where it came from.
Do all living things begin life in the same way? What did a bird look like at the
beginning of its life? Complete the activity. Form groups, each group will need a
computer. Select and explain the activity as above. Ask the children to find the oak
tree and click on it. Where was it? Tell the pupils they should remember where
each thing is found. When the children know what to do, let them complete the
Plenary
What different types of wildlife were found in the park? Make a list on the
whiteboard. Choose one and ask the children to give some facts that they have
Extension
Have a selection of reference books or CD-ROMs available for the children to find
out more about local wildlife. Ask children to create a simple What Am I? quiz. The
quiz has to give as many clues about the plant or animal that the children are able
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to find out e.g. where they live, what their offspring are called, drawing part of
Homework
Hand out copies of the Plants and animals worksheet. Remind the pupils of what
they did in the activity. Explain that the children must draw or write plants or
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REPORT
We started the lesson with reciting the `doa’ with the students.
Students’ seating were arranged carefully so that they could view
the whiteboard and the IWB (interactive whiteboard) clearly.
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interested when they were shown pictures using the power point
presentation.
Seating arrangement
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Picture of a crocodile
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Picture of a goat
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In the last part of the lesson, students were divided into 7 groups of
two students to do the assessment. Worksheets were given and
discussion in pairs were allowed. During the activity, we played our
role by facilitating the students; showing them pictures of some
animals using http://www.google.com such as heron, wood louse,
desert and meadow.
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A picture of a heron
A picture of a woodlouse
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An earthworm
An oak tree
A crab
2. Which of these animals is most likely to live in a pond?
A water spider
A caterpillar
An ant
3. Which of these is most likely to grow in woodland?
Algae
An oak tree
A cactus
4. A habitat is
an animal behaviour
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To catch fish
To look cool
To fly faster
8. Why do African elephants have big ears?
To keep cool
To hear better
To fly
9. Where would you expect to find a woodlouse?
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Desert
Meadow
River
Bottom of Form
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Results of Assessment
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Group Total
Que 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 correct
stion answers
1 4
2 8
3 6
4 7
5 7
6 6
7 8
Tota 46
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The questions show variations in its difficulty level for each of the
pair of pupils. It is obvious that question 2 is the easiest question
and all the pupils got that question correct. However, for question 8
and 9 almost all the pupils find that question hard to answer, with
only group 3 were able to answer question 8 and only group 7 were
able to answer question 9.
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The highest mean of 1.00 shows it is the easiest question among all
the questions with the lowest mean of 0.14 which is the hardest
question for the pupils to answer.
Conclusion
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