Linking Local Wildlife - Lesson 3: Bug Hotels

Containing detailed lesson plans, slides for the teaching input and a range of differentiated printable activities, this ‘Linking Local Wildlife’ scheme of work for Year 1/2 is a fun and engaging way to encourage your class to consider the importance of the wildlife around them.

This lesson starts by showing your class pictures of a variety of animals. They have to decide whether or not they would find these animals in their local area. They will go on to consider a variety of habitats before exploring their local area to see what different plants and animals they can spot. Alternatively, they can sort the plants and animals that a fictional character found on their own hunt around the local area.

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In this lesson, children will start to understand that plants and animals are linked and all depend on each other for survival. They will look at some examples of specific plants and animals that are interdependent (such as bees and flowers) and make start to make simple links between familiar plants and animals.

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In the final lesson of this series, children will establish that animals, just like humans, need a safe place to live. They will explore some reasons why animal habitats are destroyed or disturbed, then look and what bug hotels are and how they support the plants and animals in the local environment. Children will then design and make their own bug hotels.

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