Lesson 4 - Minibeasts Based on QCA Science Unit 2B – Plants and animals in the local environment WALT – Lesson Objective: To be able to identify different types of minibeasts. Expected outcomes: • The children will be able to recognise a range of different minibeasts • The children will know a range of key vocabulary associated with minibeasts • The children will have an understanding of how to identify a minibeasts. • The children will be able to sequence a simple life cycle. Introduction Use title grab facility to display lesson objective Question to assess prior knowledge – do they know any terms i.e, wings thorax, abdomen what minibeasts have they heard of and where do they think they might find some. Part 1 of lesson 1) Place reference material underneath the Visualiser showing a range of different pictures of minibeast so that it can be shared with the whole class. Enlarge and scroll so that everybody in the class can view it. 2) Play a game whereby the image is frozen and one title of a minibeasts is covered up. Can the children identify the minibeasts? Now cover the picture and the name. Can they say which picture has been covered up and spell the name? 3) Now place some minibeasts underneath the Visualiser, butterfly, spider and worm. Use the zoom facility to take a closer look and also split screen to freeze one half of image and zoom in on the other half. Also capture some images of the minibeasts using video cap and Movie Maker. If time and space allows could use the visualiser like a video camera and ask some children to demonstrate how a worm moves on the floor. • Complete the minibeasts parts activity.
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