Exploring the needs of animals and the role of animal sanctuaries.
Meet the Animals: Lesson Plan 2 Animals and their Offspring
The Meet the animals! film prompts a discussion about how animal mothers care for and protect their young in a sanctuary setting. Pupils also participate in an interactive sound activity, learning to differentiate animal vocalisations.
This is followed by a card-sorting activity involving matching mothers of different species with their offspring and a lifecycle activity to illustrate the gestation and development of young animals.
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Meet the Animals film KS1 version
Lesson Plan 2 - Animals and their offspring
• Animals and their Offspring Lesson Plan 2
• Who’s calling? PowerPoint slide
• Animals and their offspring cards adults
• Animals and their offspring cards young
• Life cycle cards
• New vocabulary: 'Womb' PowerPoint slide
• New vocabulary: 'Bond' PowerPoint slide
• Writing activity
• Cloze activity
• Mother and young sheets
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Meet the Animals! Lesson 2 – Animals and their offspring cards
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Meet the Animals Lesson 2 – Animal life cycle
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More Meet the Animals! lesson plans
Explore all the lesson plans available to accompany our Meet the Animals! film.
Learning that animals may give birth to young who are cared for and grow into adults
Appreciating that animals have needs and that we have a responsibility to meet them.
Pupils work in pairs or small groups to carry out a study of an animal sanctuary using information gathered online and/or during a visit.
Pupils are introduced to the concept of the ‘five freedoms’ in animal welfare.
Pupils use various sources to learn about the true story of a pig named Priscilla who helped rescue a boy from a lake.
Pupils are prompted to discuss a sequence featuring Jay Wilde, who talks about finding a new home for his cows after deciding he no longer wanted to continue as a cattle farmer.
To understand what intensive animal farming involves and to appreciate its impacts on animal welfare.