Beginner
30 mins
Teacher/Student led
+70 XP
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What Plants and Animals Need Outdoors

Children examine a plant and pictures of a robin and a snail to learn what living things need outdoors. They talk about water, food and a safe place as a whole class, cut and stick pictures on their own page to show what each one needs, and then help to build a class chart.

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    Observation

    1 - Getting Started ~3 mins

    The real class plant children will study, shown close and plainLook at our plant. What do you think it needs so it can keep growing? What might a little bird or a snail need outdoors too?

    2 - Looking at Our Plant ~5 mins

    Look at our plant together. Down in the soil, the roots drink water. The green leaves help the plant make its food using light from the window. The pot of soil is its safe place to stand and grow.

    Which part drinks the water?

    3 - Look and Wonder ~4 mins

    A plant in a pot, a robin and a snail

    Look closely at our plant. Now look at the robin card and the snail card. What do you notice?

    Every living thing needs three things: water, food and a safe place.

    A glass of water, some food and a safe place in a hedge

    Where might the robin get a drink? What might it eat? Where is its safe place? Now think about the snail. Point to a card when you have an idea.

    4 - Cut and Stick ~11 mins

    A page with a plant, a robin and a snail in three boxes. Water and the sun are stuck in the plant box. Six pictures to cut out sit beside them.

    Now it is your turn. Here is your page. The three big boxes are for the plant, the robin and the snail. The six pictures to cut out are at the bottom.

    Key point

    Cut out the six pictures. Stick each one in the box of the one that needs it.

    We will do the plant together first. Tell a friend why you chose each box.

    Pupil practice · Investigation Journal
    Module 1 · Living Things: Me, My Body, My Senses and Nature Outdoors
    Lesson 9 · What Plants and Animals Need Outdoors
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