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- Animal search with ABC’s
- Ant discovery table – explore
an ants home.
- Playdough – construction
sensory play
- Counting on animals (i.e. legs,
arms, antenna)
- Alphabet letters with chalk –
relating to animals.
- Sorting and classifying animals
into their correct group.
Science / Technology & Enterprise
- Making sediment jars
- Soil testing
- Making animal homes
- Research project using the class iPads
- Soil discovery table
- Geography
Rock painting
- Animals found in our
school yard compared to
other parts of the world.
- Ant homes around the
world.
CONCEPT MAP Maths
- Sort and classify bugs
- Land or water animal sort
Religious Education / Spiritual Education
- DIY ant farm – looking after life - Counting animal features
- Compost in a bottle - Forest animal graphing
- Soil and ant sensory tub - Animal sorting venn-diagram
- Pet rocks activity.
- Exploring the anatomy of an ant – How - Animal patterns
animals were created/apart of the earth. - Animal ten frames
- STEM program animal lifecycle.
- Bee Bots
Concept: Biological Science Term: 2
Weeks: 2-6 ©The University of Notre Dame 2010 developed by C McGunnigle
Health & Physical Education
- Digging in soil
- Outdoor exploration – what animals can you see in
the playground.
- Moving like animals – role play
- Rock scavenger hunt
History The Arts
- Research project about the - Paintings of different animals
history of animals. - Playdough – create your animal
- Different animals in our - Painting using different textures of
environment now compared to animal homes (bark, sand)
when our parents were in - Life cycle art project.
school. - Creating homes for a chosen animal.
- Dance/move like an animal