The Rainforest Topic Enrichment Pack

Take a trek through the rainforest with your Year 3/4 children! This The Rainforest KS2 Topic Enrichment Pack offers seven engaging lessons spanning Art, Computing and DT, all carefully crafted to help your class develop key skills across the curriculum.

Your class will:

• Follow step-by-step instructions to draw rainforest animals, explore the work of Henri Rousseau and create animal masks
• Use search engines to check the validity of information and create glossaries
• Design, make and evaluate poison dart frog beanbags and rainforest information books with moving parts.

Whether you’re looking to enrich your existing Rainforest topic or deliver a mini cross-curricular project, this pack provides everything you need—lesson plans, slides, activity sheets and resources—ready to download and teach.

This Topic Enrichment Pack is part of our The Rainforest Topic Bundle, which also includes ready-to-teach schemes of work for Geography, Science and English, all themed around rainforests.

Drawing Rainforest Animals

Teach your Year 3 or Year 4 children to draw rainforest animals with this fun KS2 Art lesson for your Rainforest Topic. The lesson starts by questioning your class on how they would go about drawing a variety of rainforest animals, before showing them some easy step-by-step instructions to follow to draw monkeys, gorillas, toucans, sloths, frogs and jaguars. It also provides some opportunities to draw other animals from observation.

This 'Draw Rainforest Animals' lesson pack is completely ready to teach and comes with an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a set of slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources, including step-by-step instructions for drawing rainforest animals.

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Henri Rousseau

This Henri Rousseau Rainforest Art lesson for KS2 children introduces your Year 3/4 children to the artwork of Henri Rousseau. They will explore some of his most famous works portraying rainforests, and explore his style and the features of his paintings before creating their own Rousseau-inspired rainforest scene. They will also find out how to create various shades of green to use in their art.

This Henri Rousseau Rainforest Art lesson comes fully planned and ready to teach – there is an easy-to-follow lesson plan with differentiated activities, a slideshow for the teaching input and a set of printable picture sheets with examples of Rousseau's rainforest scenes to support your children as they create their own artwork in the style of Henri Rousseau.

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Animal Masks

This fun Art lesson for KS2 provides your Year 3/4 children with basic rainforest animal masks to make for themselves, and offers tons of creative suggestions for how they can turn the basic mask template into realistic, colourful or zany rainforest animals! The included slideshow for the teaching input demonstrates some of the ways in which they could create their animal masks, including papier mache, collage, paint, coloured card and sketching, before your class are free to let their creativity run wild!

This Rainforest Animal Masks lesson comes fully planned and ready to teach, leaving you free to enjoy watching as your children turn into rainforest animals!

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Rainforest Facts

This Rainforest Facts Computing lesson for KS2 children challenges your Year 3 or Year 4 class to find out whether given statements about the rainforest are true or false. The teaching input looks at how to use appropriate search terms and the importance of verifying information on the internet, before your class are challenged to find and verify some rainforest facts for themselves.

This Rainforest Facts lesson planning pack comes completely ready to teach with an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of printable resources to support your children as they research their rainforest facts.

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Rainforest Glossaries

This Rainforest Computing lesson challenges your class to find rainforest words for each letter of the alphabet and use them to create their own rainforest glossary using tables in a word processing document. They will also be able to apply their knowledge of changing texts, adding borders and inserting images.

This Rainforest Words lesson comes fully prepared and ready to teach with a detailed lesson plan with differentiated activity ideas, a slideshow for the teaching input, and a range of printable resources to support your children as they turn their collection of rainforest words into their own rainforest glossaries.

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Poison Dart Frog Beanbags

Challenge your KS2 class to work with fabric to create their own colourful poison dart frog bean bags! The included slideshow for the teaching input starts by looking at some photos of poison dart frogs, then goes on to show some step-by-step pictures for how children can work with felt to create their own colourful bean bag.

As well as the slideshow and detailed lesson plan, there are also a set of printable resources, including a template, to support your children as they design, make and evaluate their poison dart frog bean bags. Everything has been planned and prepared for you so you can just download, teach and enjoy!

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Moving Information Books

This Rainforest Moving Information Books lesson starts by teaching your class to create some different moving mechanisms, such as sliders, pop-out objects, windows and rotating wheels, before challenging them to think about how they could incorporate these into an information book about the rainforest with moving parts. They will then work individually or in groups to design, make and evaluate their own moving information books.

This fun, creative lesson contains a lesson plan with three-way differentiation, a slideshow for the teaching input, and a range of printable resources to support your KS2 class as they design, making and evaluate their information books with moving mechanisms.

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