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Topic: Biodiversity/Living Things
Educational Context: Primary School
Target Learners: Primary school students in fifth class.
Learning Design Approach: ABC Learning Design.
Timing: A two-hour blended learning session.

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By the end of the learning session students should be able to:

1. observe, identify and examine the animals and plants that live in local habitats and environments
2. become familiar with the characteristics of some major groups of living things
3. develop an increasing awareness of plants and animals from wider environments

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Aim: To introduce the students to Biodiversity and Living Things.

Introduce the students to our lesson for today. Ask the students if they have any knowledge or input towards the topic and have slides to help with the lesson as we progress onwards.

Resources: Google slides
Allocated Time: 20 minutes

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Aim: To answer a set of questions using a variety of investigation resources.

Having this activity should help with allowing the students to work on their own issues and encourage them to ask their own questions.

Children should be encouraged to use their own ideas, test and perhaps change their ideas .
The students will be given question that they will have to answer in their groups by investigating further than their school books and will be given the opportunity to use the internet to help them with this.

Allocated Time: 20 minutes
Resources: Educational books, Internet access- Google, educational Websites, YouTube

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Aim: To let the students to articulate their understanding of the topic and put it to use.
Nature Walk:
In small groups the students will be brought on a nature walk and while on this walk, they are going to try and determine how many types of trees they can name and recognize, and write their answers on a worksheet. While also trying to collect resources to help them build a small bug house.

Allocated Time: 45 minutes
Resources: Step by step picture guide for building a bug house worksheet, twigs, bottles, leaves, wood

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Aim: To recap on what the students have learned today in the session.

There will be questions to answer in which the students all get to input their own answers under the questions.

Allocated Time: 10 minutes
Resources: Padlet

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Aim: For the students to discuss what they have learned in today's session and further learn from their peers about what they have learned.

Allocated Time: 10 minutes
Resources: Prompts for discussion

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Aim: To make their own Kahoot on the topic as a whole class group.

By doing this small activity to finish up the session, I hope that this will help develop the student's communication skills and have them working and discussion times together. And at the end the class can try one or two of the students quiz.

Allocated Time: 15 minutes
Resources: Kahoot

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Step by step picture guide for building a bug house:
(27) Pinterest

Science (curriculumonline.ie) Science Curriculum

Living and Non-Living things YouTube: Living and Nonliving Things | #aumsum #kids #science #education #children - YouTube

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Worksheet for Activity 3

Slides for activity 1

Padlet questions for activity 4