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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 |
The animal kingdom: Patterns, functions, relationships |
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Observe the life-cycle of an animal (e.g. an egg growing into a caterpillar then a butterfly). |
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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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Recognise different animals signs including tracks, feathers, droppings, burrows, hairs. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The animal kingdom: Patterns, functions, relationships |
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Build shelters for wild animals (e.g. bird boxes, log piles). |
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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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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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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 |
The animal kingdom: Patterns, functions, relationships |
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Make a poster (or use an app) to give a voice to an animal - describing its rights (e.g. freedom to move and play outside, to have natural food to eat). |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The animal kingdom: Patterns, functions, relationships |
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Discuss ways which animals help people, and how (e.g. bees pollinate plants without which we wouldn't eat any fruit, spiders eat mosquitoes). |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
The animal kingdom: Patterns, functions, relationships |
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Learn how the food web and web of life works in a particular local habitat. |
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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 |
Fungi: parasites, recyclers and the wood wide web |
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Turn over a log or stone to find mycellium and if possible look at it under a microscope or magnifying glass. |
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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 |
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 |
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 |
Fungi: parasites, recyclers and the wood wide web |
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Learn that a mushroom is like an apple on a tree - it is the fruit of the living organism, the majority of which is under the ground as mycellium. |
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The animal, fungus and bacteria kingdoms |
Fungi: parasites, recyclers and the wood wide web |
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Learn that different fungi have different ways of living e.g. 'mycorrhizal' fungi feed plants and get their food from plants; parasites eat living plants; recyclers eat dead matter. |
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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 |
The Microscopic World |
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Observe microscopic creatures through a microscope. |
