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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
Animal families, homes, names, footprints and other signs |
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Learn about the functions of some animals in a garden (e.g. worms building soil/ birds eating insects). |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
Animal families, homes, names, footprints and other signs |
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Look after an animal for several weeks (e.g. worms, fish, chickens) with the help of an adult. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The animal kingdom: Patterns, functions, relationships |
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Visit different animal habitats/homes e.g. ponds, rocks. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
Animal families, homes, names, footprints and other signs |
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Learn about the families, homes, names, footprints and signs of different local animals. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The animal kingdom: Patterns, functions, relationships |
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Listen to animal sounds at different times of day/night (e.g. birds, crickets etc.) |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The animal kingdom: Patterns, functions, relationships |
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Identify some locally common minibeasts. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The animal kingdom: Patterns, functions, relationships |
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Identify some local birds from their song/call. Imitate them together. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The animal kingdom: Patterns, functions, relationships |
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Discuss the signs of health vs sickness in animals. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
Mushrooms |
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Listen to a story about trees talking to each in a forest through the tiny thread like web of fungi that interconnect the roots of the trees throughout the entire forest. Imagine being a tree in the forest - standing in the tree yoga position for example with the other children to make a forest. What messages do you send to each other? |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
Fungi: parasites, recyclers and the wood wide web |
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Identify one edible and one poisonous mushroom. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The animal kingdom: Patterns, functions, relationships |
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Learn about animal adaptations to extreme conditions (e.g. cold, wet, dry, hot). |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The animal kingdom: Patterns, functions, relationships |
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Whilst looking at animal tracks or signs, guess which animal made them and imagine what the animal was doing. Tell the story, maybe even acting it out. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
Fungi: parasites, recyclers and the wood wide web |
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Learn that (mycorrhizal) fungi are the wood wide web - they help distribute nutrients (taking nutrients to where they are needed) and enable trees to communicate with others (that are far away). |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The Microscopic World |
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Act out the roles of different bacteria within a human digestive system, to appreciate how important bacteria are. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
Fungi: parasites, recyclers and the wood wide web |
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Learn that mycorrhizal fungi are so important to plants that plants actually feed them. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
Fungi: parasites, recyclers and the wood wide web |
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Act out the three different roles that fungi play in the woods (different species have different roles). Some are recyclers - decomposing dead matter and making the nutrients available to other species. Others are parasites - eating living trees. Others are plant-friends (mycorrhizal) and are feeding the plants with nutrients whilst the plants also feed them. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The Microscopic World |
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Learn that there are more bacteria in your body than there are human cells! |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The Microscopic World |
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Role play a 'living beings' court in which some bacteria are being accused of being bad. Children act as the lawyer, prosecution, jury, judge. The children defend the positive contribution that bacteria make to the world and show that most bacteria are good. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The Microscopic World |
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Learn that there are many different types of bacteria and many of them help people (and other animals), and others can make them ill. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The Microscopic World |
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Learn that the essential nutrient called vitamin B12 is made by bacteria in the digestive systems of humans and animals. |
