Teaching – Lesson & Skills Content
Year Group
3/4
Scientific Enquiry
Identify some local habitats and
other habitats in the world including
tropical rainforest
Name some organisms that live
there
With help identify animals using a
key
Make observations of animals and
plants
Use keys independently
Know foods that some animals eat
Distinguish between animals that eat
plants and those that eat other
animals
Plan how to investigate the feeding
preferences of some animals in the
rainforest
Can make food chains to represent
feeding relationships within the
rainforest
Know that food chains begin with a
green plant which “produces” food
for other organisms
Explaining adaptations of species to
their habitat .
Start date
End date
21/12/13
ICT
History
Geography
* Using search engines to effectively
investigate species, habitats and
issues in the tropical rainforest
*Online rainforest learning games
(Rainforest Alliance website)
*Using Publisher to make
information posters and/or Top
Trump cards of rainforest species
*Working with Publisher to write a
status of the rainforest newspaper
story
*Working with Excel to produce bar
and line graphs in respect of climate
statistics
*Developing keyboard and
presentation skills using Word
*Using Wordle to make own key
words presentation eg the rainforest
*Mathletics
*Word Shark, Number Shark,
Nessie, Hairy Phonics and Storytime
*Finding out about the history of our
use of resources from the rainforest
* Understanding how and when
people began to inhabit rainforest
areas
*Investigating recent history of
habitat loss, endangered species
and extinction
*Using photographs to distinguish
between natural and human
environments
Using globe and maps at different
scales to describe distribution of the
tropical rainforest. Identifying
rainforest countries and labelling
maps.
*Describing the structure and climate
of the rainforest and offering
explanations (climate graphs, maths)
*Using the scale of a map to work
out distances
*Using audio visual resources to
describe the main features of the
forest
*Describing the lifestyle and culture
of the Yanomani
*Comparing our own culture with
that of people living in the rainforest
*Understanding how species coexist and adapt to their environment
*Understanding where and why the
rainforest is being destroyed
*How can the rainforest be managed
to ensure its survival?
Art & Design
*Making a pictoral map of rainforest
distribution
*Learning how to sketch an animal
using shape, tone and proportion.
*Collage of resources from the
rainforest
*Design a newly discovered species
adapted to the rainforest
environment
*Designing packaging for
sustainable rainforest products
11/11/13
Design Technology
(*Following a design to make an
Egyptian straw boat)
Rainforests
*Making a terranium to simulate
conditions for plant growth
*Prepare and cook cakes using
rainforest ingredients
*Design a Rainforest board game.
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Music
Developing voice through song
in singing assembly
Experimenting with rhythm and
beat
Brazilian samba; producing
beats and rhythms
Producing and recording
musical notation to represent a
beat.
PE
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Football
Developing independence with
warm ups,
Ball control
Passing and moving
Marking and defending
Finding space and shooting.
Attacking and defending
* Gymnastics and Dance with
Lucy Cowgill
MFL
PSHE & Citizenship
*Revisitation de bonjour, où habites
–tu et quelle âge as tu?
*Nommez les animaux du forêts
tropicaux ?
*Les numéros un á cinquante
* Quel Temps fait il ?
*Les mois de l’année et les saisons.
* Quand est mon anniversaire ?
Say ‘No’ to Bullying
What is bullying?
How can we deal with bullying?
How can we stop bullying from
happening?
Class assemblies and weekly Circle
Time
Martin Luther King’ I have a Dream’
speech