What makes a habitat a home?

EASTERSIDE ACADEMY Year 1 and 2 – What makes a habitat a home?

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Memorable Experience: Animal experience in school National Curriculum PoS – Art • To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products • To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination • To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space • About the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.

National Curriculum PoS – Geography •

Understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom, and of a small area in a contrasting non-European country

• Name and locate the world’s seven continents and five oceans Connect Explicitly connect to key concept revisited.

Animals linked to seasons weather-e.g. winter artic animals.

Exploratory tray - polar tray (Winter) Seasons - making a home for a hedgehog Colour mixing linked to season s- warm/cold/ shades. (R) What might you find in the woods? Habitats for different animals.

Key Concepts Take inspiration from the greats / Investigate places Declarative Knowledge – Geography Environmental Artist - artistic works that are intended Continents to enhance or become part of the environment or Australasia make a statement on environmental issues.

Europe Focus Artist –Skills Seurat Asia Africa North America South America Antarctica Focus Artist-Skills Rousseau

Impact of climate change. Other artists: Andy Goldsworthy – Leaf art Tim Pugh Sylvain Meyer Richard Shilling Olga Ziemska Colour mixing – primary colours.

Sketching techniques – shading.

Vocabulary Subject Specific (This may include some Tier 3) pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space

Outcome: Art Gallery for parents

Five oceans Pacific Atlantic Indian Oceanic Arctic How has the polar bear adapted to live in the Arctic?

Vocabulary Subject Specific (This may include some Tier 3) Temperature thermometer adaptation human and physical ice caps region change pollution

geography climate

EASTERSIDE ACADEMY Year 1 and 2 – What makes a habitat a home?

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Tier 2 light dark pressure create imagine compare similarities difference contrast opinion discuss suitability melting reason result record test describe patterns carry out label locate develop design present choose explain locate experiment hypothesise question interpret measure appraise invent plan modify predict Procedural Knowledge (Skills) Art • Respond to ideas and starting points.

• Explore ideas and collect visual information.

• Explore different methods and materials as ideas develop.

• Use thick and thin brushes.

• Mix primary colours to make secondary.

• Add white to colours to make tints and black to colours to make tones.

• Create colour wheels.

• Use a combination of materials that are cut, torn and glued.

• Sort and arrange materials.

• Mix materials to create texture.

• Draw lines of different sizes and thickness.

• Colour (own work) neatly following the lines.

• Show pattern and texture by adding dots and lines.

• Show different tones by using coloured pencils.

• Describe the work of notable artists, artisans and designers.

• Use some of the ideas of artists studied to create pieces.

Geography • Ask and answer geographical questions (such as: What is this place like? What or who will I see in this place?

What do people do in this place?).

• Identify the key features of a location in order to say whether it is a city, town, village, coastal or rural area.

• Use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the United Kingdom and its countries, as well as the countries, continents and oceans studied.

• Name and locate the world’s continents and oceans.

• Understand geographical similarities and differences through studying the human and physical geography of a small area of the United Kingdom and of a contrasting non-European country.

• Identify seasonal and daily weather patterns in the United Kingdom and the location of hot and cold areas of the world in relation to the Equator and the North and South Poles.

Revisit  On-going retrieval of what is not currently being taught.  Geog - Compass directions.  Geog - UK countries / seas.  Learning Check from previous topic – Fire of London.

Other Cross-Curricular Links  DT – Making a flying machine  History – History of flying  Science test – melting ice Outdoor Learning OpportunitiesLeaf art e.g. collecting leaves and sketching / Power of Reading Leaf by Sandra Dieckmann

Outcome: Art Gallery for parents