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Strategic Partnership Project (Key action no 2)
“ACTIVE CITIZENSHIP AND ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS THROUGH FORMAL
AND NON-FORMAL EDUCATION” (ACEAFNE)
CURRICULUM INTEGRATED ACTIVITY
LESSON PLAN
SCHOOL
DATE
TEACHER
CLASS
SUBJECT
CURRICULAR COVERAGE
TOPIC OF THE LESSON
TIME
Lanchester EP Primary School (England)
Spring Term 1 2016
Helen Startup
Year 5
Science (Life on Land: 15 ~ Rainforests)
Science / Geography
Living things found in rainforests
1 hour (formal lesson)
OBJECTIVES
 Children to create their own „rainforest creature‟ with labels for how it is well-suited to its
habitat
TEACHING STRATEGIES
 Presentation
 Partner talk
 Independent work
 Video
TEACHING METHOD
 Whole class
 Independent task
ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION
 What living things do we know about in the rainforest? Gather ideas and discuss.
 Show video clip at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgU7gsBOhUI to show chn some
living things in the rainforest in a fun video.
 Discuss what we learnt from the video.
 Run through PPT which describes several living things found in the rainforest.
 Demonstrate task.
 Task: Chn to work independently to create their own rainforest creature with labels to
describe it.
ACTIVITY ASSESSMENT
 Great – chn loved this lesson!
STUDENTS‟ IMPACT *
 More awareness of different animals found in the rainforest.
CONCLUSIONS AS TO THE STUDENTS‟ BEHAVIOUR, INTEREST, ACTIVITY:
 Chn were very engaged – particularly with video clip.
 Chn created some fantastic creatures.
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