Don't let them bug you!

Don't let them bug you!

Lesson 8 of 16 in this unit

  • Primary
  • Year 1 - 2
  • English
  • Science
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Lesson summary

Students locate, observe and record their observations of insects or minibeasts in a school ground or garden environment.

Learning intentions:

Students will...

  • record their observations, which includes a diagram.

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Curriculum mapping

Australian Curriculum content descriptions:

Year 1 Science:

  • Represent and communicate observations and ideas in a variety of ways such as oral and written language, drawing and role play (ACSIS029)
  • Living things have a variety of external features (ACSSU017)

Year 1 English:

  • Create short imaginative and informative texts that show emerging use of appropriate text structure, sentence-level grammar, word choice, spelling, punctuation and appropriate multimodal elements, for example illustrations and diagrams (ACELY1661)

Year 2 Science:

  • Represent and communicate observations and ideas in a variety of ways such as oral and written language, drawing and role play (ACSIS042)

Year 2 English:

  • Create short imaginative, informative and persuasive texts using growing knowledge of text structures and language features for familiar and some less familiar audiences, selecting print and multimodal elements appropriate to the audience and purpose (ACELY1671)

Syllabus Outcomes: ST1-4WS, ST1-10LW, EN1-2A. 

Indoor or outdoor activity: Outdoor

Time required: 45 mins

Homework and extension opportunities: This activity can be repeated as homework.

Resources required

  • Art materials
  • Printed Worksheet

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