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Biodiversity
Write a newspaper report about the damage palm oil is doing to animal habitats.
Maths
Create a pictogram to show the favourite animals of children in class.
Science
Art and design
Computing
Design and technology
Languages
Use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things.
Using recycled materials create a mural of an animal that is endangered.
Use green screen technology to create a video about animal conservation.
Make bird feeders and bug hotels.
Learn the names of animals in different languages.
Energy
Write instructions for how to save energy in school and/or at home.
Design a tally chart to help monitor when unused electronic devices are left on.
Identify the appliances we use that run on electricity.
Design posters to encourage energy saving to display throughout school.
Present a PowerPoint about how to save energy and why it is important.
Create electronic circuits.
Create ‘Switch off’ stickers in every language spoken throughout school to display near light switches.
Geography
Compare and contrast where we live to a region in a different continent.
Create a map of the classroom including light switches and power sockets.
History
Physical education
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Learn about the life of an important conservationist like Charles Darwin or Dr Jane Goodall.
Host an animal inspired yoga session.
Focus on changes within living memory and the changes we still need to make to protect our planet.
Create a ‘real life’ energy circuit with children acting as the current.
Global citizenship
Write informational texts about a country of their choice.
Count money raised for charity through fundraising events.
Look at how changing habitat is affecting animals locally, nationally and globally.
Create artwork influenced by a variety of different cultures.
Learn to use the internet safely and respectfully.
Design and create eco– products which can be sold to raise money for charity.
Check out the Eco– Schools websites and resources from different Eco–Schools countries around the world.
Research how our use of natural resources is affecting the natural world (e.g. cattle farming, palm oil production etc.).
Research a prominent individual from the past (Rosa Parks, Emily Davison, Mary Seacole etc.).
Look at exercises from different parts of the world (e.g. Tai Chi).
Healthy living
Create an advertisement for a healthy snack or drink.
Children to use counting in daily exercises (e.g. counting star jumps). Older children to recall multiplication tables during daily exercise.
Learn about balanced diets and the types of nutrition humans need to stay healthy.
Study and draw human movement during a variety of exercises.
Create a survey to find the most popular sport in school.
Cook a variety of healthy and sustainable meals.
Learn the names of fruits, vegetables and exercises in different languages.
Map key human and natural features of the local environment considering whether they have a positive (e.g. parks) or negative (e.g. busy roads) impact on health.
Learn about human diet throughout history from hunter gatherers to modern times.
Provide opportunities for children to become physically confident.
Litter
Write a balanced argument about whether companies or individuals should be fined for littering.
After a litter pick, create a bar chart to show the most littered item found.
Recognise that litter can negatively affect habitats and pose a threat to living things.
Use ‘clean’ litter to create an artistic collage.
Design and create a pick up litter game using Scratch or a similar programme.
Design, create and test their own litter picking equipment using sustainable resources.
Create anti–litter posters using languages spoken in school and local community.
Plot bins within classrooms, the school building and its grounds considering whether relocation or additional bins are needed.
Learn how archaeologists and historians use historic, discarded litter to understand what life was like in the past.
Go on a plog around the school grounds (litter pick and jog).
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