Deforestation Teachers’ Notes Key Stage 2
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Language and Literacy
• As a class, list words that describe the pupils’ feelings about Forests and then about Deforestation. (Imagery should be used). •The Big Debate: Is one person building a house out of wood worth the damage to the forest? Is it ethical? •Write a poem or story about deforestation Art • Wood You Believe It? Find 10 things in the school that come from trees •Discuss and compare two paintings (Google Famous Rainforest Paintings) showing rainforests. Is the art more effective than a photograph? Why? Drama Go to a local forest. Or, use props from a forest. Game: “Whatever is that?” Give the children 30 seconds to find an object from a set area and come back to the circle. Each child should tell an unusual and imaginary story about their object to the person sitting next to them. 10 Numeracy • Create digital posters that encourage responsible wood and paper usage, linking to tropi- cal deforestation •If 1.5 acres of forest is cut down every second, how much is lost every Minute, Hour, Day, Week, Month, Year •Visit a forest. Ask children to discuss what shapes they can see. Discuss symmetry, size, shadows, patterns •Calculate the size of a tree (without cutting it down!) Drama Go to a local forest. Or, use props from a forest. Game: “Whatever is that?” Give the chil- dren 30 seconds to find an object from a set area and come back to the circle. Each child should tell an unusual and imaginary story about their object to the person sitting next to them. Music Split the class into two groups 1. The Forest 2. The Machines to cut down the trees. Ask group 1 to think of the various noises you may hear in a rainforest in Madagascar. Can they use their instruments to recreate these sounds? Group 2 should think of the noises the machinery/work people responsible for the cutting down of the trees might make. (Provide both groups with visual stimuli). Bring both groups together for a performance that repre- sents machinery moving in to cut down a forest Yüklə 1,08 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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