Birds - Blackbirds Lesson Outline and Resources

This 34- page 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. It can be used to teach both science and English: reading and writing non-fiction.

Contains:

• Two lesson outlines (but material for more)
• 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 (based on the factual reading pages and matched in ability
• 2 differentiated writing sheets for factual writing
• • 5 Photographs

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.

Use with our 41-slide Blackbird PowerPoint!

Get more hints and tips about teaching your lesson at KS1 Nature:
https://ks1nature.weebly.com/science-lessons/blackbirds-a-complete-lesson-for-ks1

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.
See our Squirrel Resources fro Y1 here:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12742537

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