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The life cycle of birds

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Carnival of the Animals Domestic Birds

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Objectives

Science

  • Use observational skills and ideas to suggest answers to questions.

Dance

  • Perform dances using simple movement patterns.

Art and Design

  • Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.

Lesson Planning

Children will meet chick and learn about her journey through life. They will experience life as chick through dance and make their own life cycle wheel using collage materials.

Teaching Outcomes
Learn that living things grow and change, understand the stages of the life cycle.
Use movement to perform the stages of the lifecycle.
To create a simple life cycle wheel.

Children will:

  • Learn that living things grow and change.
  • Understand the stages of the life cycle.
  • Make a simple life cycle wheel.

Provided Resources

  • Instructions for making bird lifecycle wheel

You Will Need

  • See how they grow - chick by DK Publishing or
  • Popcorn: Life Cycles: Chicken by Ruth Thompson
  • A chick soft toy

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