Learning Path
Plants and Animals Learning Path
By Caroline Farrelly
Minibeast hunt
3 resources in this Learning Path
1
Gardening With Children
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/gardening_with_children/ Added: 29 Apr 2014 Contributor: Scoilnet Resource type: Guide/notesInformation and suggested gardening projects aimed at younger children. The projects are divided between possible indoor and outdoor and cover activities like collecting and counting insects, building a wormery and painting flower pots.
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Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- become aware of animals and plants of other environments
- become aware that animals and plants undergo seasonal change in appearance or behaviour
- explore conditions for growth of bulbs and seeds
- observe growth and change in some living things
- observe, discuss and identify a variety of plants and animals in different habitats in the immediate environment
- sort and group living things into sets
Suggestions for use: Very practical projects - just select and off you go.
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- appreciate that living things have essential needs for growth
- become familiar with the life cycles of common plants and animals
- develop some awareness of plants and animals from wider environments
- explore, through the growing of seeds, the need of plants for water and heat
- group and sort living things into sets according to certain characteristics
- investigate how plants respond to light
- observe, identify and explore a variety of living things in local habitats and environments
- recognise that trees are plants
- understand that seasonal changes occur in living things and examine the changes in plant and animal life during the different seasons
Suggestions for use: Very practical projects - just select and off you go.
2
Mini Beast PowerPoint Quiz
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/18304/17985.ppt Added: 09 Aug 2016 Contributor: Teresa Lea Resource type: Game / Presentation / ProjectMini beast description game. The children must read the clues and guess what mini beast is being described.
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- 1-2
- SESE Science
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- observe, identify and explore a variety of living things in local habitats and environments
Suggestions for use: Project the quiz onto the whiteboard. Set students up in groups. Each group can write on a mini-board to present their group answer. The mini-beast identification key information sheet could be used by groups. (see related resources below)
3
Nature Trail Checklist
https://www.scoilnet.ieuploads/resources/29818/29554.pdf Added: 14 Jun 2019 Contributor: Ann Moran Resource type: Assessment / Tool / Worksheet / Checklist / ActivityThis 'eye-spy' nature walk checklist by LEAF Ireland (LEarn About Forests) lists 18 things that you might find on a nature walk, eg. a brown leaf, a deciduous tree etc.
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Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plants and Animals
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- observe, identify and explore a variety of living things in local habitats and environments
Suggestions for use: Give each child or team a clipboard with this checklist before going out on a nature walk. Who can find and check off the most items on the list?
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- observe, identify and investigate the animals and plants that live in local environments
Suggestions for use: Give each child or team a clipboard with this checklist before going out on a nature walk. Who can find and check off the most items on the list?
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- identify the interrelationships and interdependence between plants and animals in local and other habitats
- observe, identify and examine the animals and plants that live in local habitats and environments
Suggestions for use: Give each child or team a clipboard with this checklist before going out on a nature walk. Who can find and check off the most items on the list?
