KS1 Science; Birds - Blackbirds PowerPoint

This Y1 teaching resource pack, based on Blackbirds, will help children to use the local environment throughout the year to explore and answer questions about animals in their habitat.

Helps children to ask questions and find answers, first through observation and then from other sources. Learn about colour/identification what Blackbirds eat where they live, how they move and nesting behaviour.

The pack will:

• - Help you to fully embrace the non-statutory guidance for the Year 1 National Curriculum for Science as well as teaching the statutory requirements.

• - Bring Science alive and help you to deliver excellent lessons based on squirrels in the local environment.

• - Designed to appeal to the Y1 child, gently introducing key vocabulary.
  - Written by an Environmental Education, Early Years specialist (ages 3 to 8) who understands how children learn.

Year 1: Science curriculum covered:

• Identify and name a variety of common animals, including birds.
• Describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (including birds).

• * Identify and name a variety of common animals that are …omnivores.

• * Once the Blackbird has been studied you can compare it to other birds ,or even other animals in the local environment.

I PowerPoint

! PDF lesson pack

1 PDF Narration Notes

Contains:

Two lesson outlines (but material for more)

40 slides Powerpoint with narration notes either printed or under each slide

3 differentiated factual reading pages (print A 3 and fold into A4, or print 2x A4)

The story of Blackbirds nesting (4 A4 pages with text and drawings)

1 page mini black and white pictures of the nesting story for ordering/writing about)

2 colouring pages

3 differentiated Blackbird Facts worksheets

4 differentiated reading comprehension sheets (base don the factual reading pages and matched in ability

2 differentiated writing sheets for factual writing

5 Photographs