This BUNDLE is on sale. It includes 10 PowerPoint lessons and a corresponding student Journal. You will have everything you need to teach the ACARA Version 8 Living Things Unit for the Foundation Stage.

The lessons and the journal activities are related and carefully aligned to ACARA Version 8—Foundation Level. All the content descriptors from the Foundation Biological Sciences strand are covered.

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Each page in the student journal corresponds with each of the 10 PowerPoint lessons. The specific ACARA content descriptors addressed in each activity are listed at the bottom of each journal page. Students will be able to use the journal to record and represent their knowledge and understandings and it could also be used as evidence of learning and to inform assessment grades.

The highly engaging PowerPoint lessons include quality real life photos and interactive aspects perfect for large screen display and interactive panels.

Lesson 1:  Science and Our Senses. Students will describe how our senses can help us learn about the world.(28 slides)

Lesson 2:  Living Things in Our School. Students will observe living things using their senses. (36 slides)

Lesson 3:  Exploring the Living World Using Our Senses. Students will make detailed observations of living things. (38 slides)

Lesson 4:  The Needs of Living Things. Students will identify the needs of living things and how their needs are met. (33 slides)

Lesson 5:  The Needs of Animals. Students will identify the needs of animals and how their needs are met. (33 slides)

Lesson 6:  The Needs of Plants. Students will identify the needs of plants and how their needs are met. (45 slides)

Lesson 7:  Environments that People Care For. Students will describe the needs of living things being met in a farm environment. (32 slides)

Lesson 8:  Looking at Wild Environments. Students will describe the needs of living things being met in a wild environment. (37 slides)

Lesson 9:  Actions that Affect Environments. Students will describe the impact of human actions on living things. (37 slides)

Lesson 10:  Actions in the Local Environment. Students will share ways they could help to meet the needs of living things in the school environment. (28 slides)

I usually compile the pages of the journal into a booklet for the children.

You might like to just select and print individual pages as follow-up or extension lesson activities to accompany the PowerPoint lessons.

Sometimes I enlarge a journal page to A3. After we watch the related PowerPoint lesson, we complete the poster size journal activity together as a whole class. Of course the whole journal could be printed at A3 size and used as a whole class learning journal.