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Animals Around the World

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SKU G12CS90100
Continents and CountriesWeather and ClimateKey Stage 1Locational and Place KnowledgeGeographyYear 1Year 2
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Travel across the globe and teach your class about animals around the world in this KS1 Geography planning pack.

 
#TheCompleteSeries6lessons

Explore the coastal habitats of different animals and identify the seven continents by placing animals on their native continent. Teach your class to begin to identify a location's temperature based on its distance from the equator and place animals in their preferred climates. Use the included lesson slides and printable resources to discover how animals' appearance and behaviour change with the seasonal changes and investigate the national animals of the UK and around the world.

This set of six complete lessons comes with everything you need to teach your KS1 class about animals from around the world.

 

#Lesson1Continents

Introduce your class to the animals of the world and their native continents with this 7 continents lesson plan and accompanying resources.

Use the included lesson slides to travel to each continent and meet one of the native animals you could find there. Then, using a world map and the differentiated printable resources, challenge your class to complete the continents activity where they have to label where different animals are from using what they have learned.

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • World maps
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Continent cards
  • Animal cards
#Lesson2CoastsOceansandSeas

This oceans and seas KS1 lesson pack explores the differences between oceans and seas, as well as different coastal environments and the animals which live in them.

The children will name the different oceans of the world and become familiar with coastal vocabulary such as sea, beach, rock pool, and cliff. As they explore these physical features of the coasts they learn about and discuss the animals which live in them. They are challenged to identify the different environments and place the given animals in their preferred coastal habitat.

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Animal cards
  • Description cards
  • Environment labels
#Lesson3HotandColdAnimals

This lesson helps your class find out about animals that live in hot and cold places in the world. The colourful resources help the children explore the world according to a location's distance from the equator and how this affects the temperature of an animal's habitat. Using the included lesson slides, the children can discuss the hot and cold places in the world using what they have found out about the equator. They are then challenged to place animals on a world map based on the appropriate temperature for their habitat, using the printable resources to help them.

This downloadable lesson includes a lesson plan, slideshow presentation, and printable teaching resources.

 

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • World maps
  • Animal cards
  • Worksheet
  • Challenge cards
  • Outfit cards
#Lesson4SeasonalChanges

Investigate the seasonal changes in the weather and the length of days and how these affect animal behaviours during these times. This set of complete seasons KS1 worksheets, lesson slides and detailed lesson plan has plenty of activities to explore seasonal changes through animal adaptations. Discuss how some animals survive cold weather by hibernating or migrating and how others might grow a thick winter coat.

Your class will be challenged to sort and describe the seasonal animal behaviours, linking them with the different changes in weather and day length for each season.

This downloadable lesson comes with a lesson plan, a slideshow presentation, and printable teaching resources.

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated Worksheets
  • Booklet pages
  • Word bank
  • Information card
#Lesson5NationalAnimals

This KS1 Geography lesson takes a look at the different national animals of countries around the world, including the four countries of the UK.

The children begin by investigating the flags and national animals of the UK. Using the teaching input slides the children discuss why these animals are special and then expand their investigations of national animals to other countries. Your class is challenged to use the included world maps or an atlas to find the matching countries to a list of national animals.

This downloadable lesson comes with a lesson plan, a slideshow presentation, and printable teaching resources.

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
  • Animals cards
  • World maps
#Lesson6BritishWildlife

Take a look closer to home in this British Wildlife KS1 lesson. Talk about and define the word 'native' when exploring the wildlife in your local area and discussing which animals are native to the UK. The included lesson slides help the children define and use new vocabulary when talking about animals from the UK.

The children are challenged to go on an animal hunt on your school grounds and/or in your local area and record their observations using the included printable resources.

This downloadable lesson comes with a lesson plan, a slideshow presentation, and printable teaching resources.

What's included:

  • Lesson plan
  • Slides
  • Activity ideas
  • Differentiated worksheets
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Curriculum Objectives covered
  • KS1 - name and locate the world's seven continents and five oceans.
  • KS1 - name, locate and identify characteristics of the four countries and capital cities of the United Kingdom and its surrounding seas.
  • KS1 - 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.
  • KS1 - use basic geographical vocabulary to refer to key physical features, including: beach, cliff, coast, forest, hill, mountain, sea, ocean, river, soil, valley, vegetation, season and weather.
  • KS1 - use world maps, atlases and globes to identify the United Kingdom and its countries, as well as the countries, continents and oceans studied at this key stage

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