Rainforest Living Things and their Needs Lesson

Lesson exploring living things in tropical rainforests and their different needs including:

• Detailed PPT discussing the needs of different animals and why the different layers may suit them, using the living things fact files to support learning.
• Creative and fun main activity with 3 levels of differentiation, students will create their own rainforest animal or plant depending on the layer they live in, some will move on to work out the layer in which a brand new animal lives in, based on their features.
• Interesting and beautifully presented living things fact files to support students independent learning.
• Whole unit planning.

National Curriculum objectives:
Science
Y3: explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant