FIRST – TERM 2023/2024 SESSION
DATE: Monday 3rd October- Friday 6th October, 2022
Week: 5
Topic: Animal and the environment
OBJECTIVES
WALT (objectives)
 Students should be able to
identify some animals and
their habitat.
 Students should be able to
explain the adaptive features
of animals in their
environment
WILF (Outcome)
 Students will be able to
identify some animal and
their habitat.
 Students will be able to
explain the adaptive features
of animals in their
environment.
Day: 1 and 2 Class: Grade 2 Ability: Mixed Subject: Science
ACTIVITY KEYWORDS/DIFFERENTIATION RESOURCES/PLENARY
INTRODUCTION (10mins) KEYWORDS RESOURCES
ADAPTATION  Video
 Watch video ADAPTIVE FEATURES https://youtu.be/
 Call some of the students to give reasons why rKh2BWFGkPQ
animals do not live in the classroom.
 Explain to your students that Animals are living DIFFERENTIATION https://youtu.be/Xj1ASC-
things that need water, a home, food, air and Whole class activity TlsI
sunlight to grow. Different animals live in specific
places based on what they need to survive.  Image of animals
 Tell your students that today they are going to  Pencils
learn about animals and their habitat.  Animal habitat Match-Up
EXPLICIT INSTRUCTION (10mins) worksheet
 Science textbook
 Tell students that all animals need water. Many  Cambridge primary science
animals live on land, water and some also fly.
Some animals live in hot deserts. Animals differ PLENARY
in colour, size and shape, etc Assessment (10mins)
 Show students images of animals in different  Grade the independent
habitat. worksheets, ensuring that
 Help learners understand that each of these your students are
animals have unique things (adaptive properties) matching parent animals
that helps them grow well in their habitat. to their babies accurately
 Use the pictures to explain each adaptive
feature. For instance, FISH have gills that help Review and closing (10mins)
them breathe in water. The fin and tail is used to  Ask students to identify
swim. plants and where it can be
found.
 Take responses by raised
GUIDED PRACTICE/INTERACTIVE MODELING (10mins)
hands.
 Attach the images of the animals to the
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whiteboard randomly with masking tapes.
 Ask a student to come up identify its habitat.
 Allow each student to have a turn.
INDEPENDENT WORKING TIME (10mins)
 Give each student an animal Match-Up
worksheet and a pencil.
 Read the instructions to the students.
 Give the students time to complete the
worksheet.
 Collect the worksheets to grade.