Teacher: Year 1 School: St James CE Primary Academy Country: England (Ecology/Sustainability etc.) 5-6 year olds Main Issue Covered: Age of Children: Curriculum Objectives Covered: Intended learning: Learning about plastic Description of learning activities: Morning activity - Verbal morning activity - How many things can you think of which are made out of plastic? Get children passionate about the week Picture of sea what is it that you can see at the bottom? Talk about plastic in ocean. Share other pictures. Share facts. – Watch video - and discuss what happens to plastic if dropped into the ocean. Activity - Warning poster don’t drop plastic in the sea. Go through examples on board. Chn to create persuasive poster asking – people not to drop plastic into sea. Why is plastic amazing? History of plastic Sequence timeline in small groups with 2 or 3 dates of cut out events. Then come together to complete full timeline. Go through – reasons plastic is fantastic and name as many things they can think of made of plastic. Then quiz, yes or no answers and have to stand on correct side of room. Look at boats and discuss the design Footage on youtube of the Americas cup. Discuss floating and sinking. 2 types of plastic to float and sink. Multilink should float and large 3D shape should sink. Discuss that it is the density of the plastic that determines whether it floats or sinks. Then show picture of cruise ships and say it doesn’t sink due to design. Draw their ideas for a boat design. For the rest of the afternoon create the trampoline part of boat.
Teacher: Year 1 School: St James CE Primary Academy Country: England Main Issue Covered: (Ecology/Sustainability etc.) Age of Children: 5-6 year olds Curriculum Objectives Covered: Intended learning: Learning about plastic Description of learning activities: Morning activity - Verbal morning activity - How many things can you think of which are made out of plastic? Get children passionate about the week Picture of sea – what is it that you can see at the bottom? Talk about plastic in ocean. Share other pictures. Share facts. Watch video - and discuss what happens to plastic if dropped into the ocean. Activity - Warning poster – don’t drop plastic in the sea. Go through examples on board. Chn to create persuasive poster asking people not to drop plastic into sea. Why is plastic amazing? History of plastic Sequence timeline – in small groups with 2 or 3 dates of cut out events. Then come together to complete full timeline. Go through reasons plastic is fantastic and name as many things they can think of made of plastic. Then quiz, yes or no answers and have to stand on correct side of room. Look at boats and discuss the design Footage on youtube of the Americas cup. Discuss floating and sinking. 2 types of plastic to float and sink. Multilink should float and large 3D shape should sink. Discuss that it is the density of the plastic that determines whether it floats or sinks. Then show picture of cruise ships and say it doesn’t sink due to design. Draw their ideas for a boat design. For the rest of the afternoon create the trampoline part of boat.