VIRTUAL EXPERIMENT LESSON PLAN

Topic: Plant and Animals
Sub topic: Habitat and Food chain

Objectives

1.Recognise there are different types of plants and animals in a local

environment.
2.Name some plants and animals and understand they require different habitats

to live.
3.Relate simple life processes to plants and animals found in a local

environment.

National Curriculum
Key Stage 2, Science, Sc2, 2e.

Resources

•Online activity: Plants and animals
•Secondary sources of information (reference books, CD-ROMs)
•Copies of Plants and animals worksheet

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 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 rest of the experiment. Encourage them to read or listen to the information.

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 found out or knew already about the subject.

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 to find out e.g. where they live, what their offspring are called, drawing part of their body or complete the Worksheet.

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 animals into the three different habitats.