This unit is designed for year 4 but could be adapted to fit into other year groups. Ultimately the unit is focused on better understanding different animals and plants and the positives and negatives of natural and artificial habitats. In this unit, children will spend time classifying different animals/plants, creating their own habitats, debating the positive and negative aspects of artificial habitats. It develops the following skills: • Using and making simple guides or keys [sorting, grouping, comparing, classifying] to explore and identify plants and animals. • Making a guide [sorting, grouping, comparing, classifying] to local living things. • Raising and answering questions based on their observations of animals and what they have found out about other animals that they have researched. Lesson 1: Children build classification keys to better understand different animals and plants Lesson 2: Children learn about different habitats and learn to distinguish between them Lesson 3: Children create their own zoo and debate the ethics of zoos as habitats for animals Within this unit plan there are hyperlinks to other resources associated with the plan.

This is an incredible plan which uses experiential learning to build towards children creating there own NGO. It starts with children analysing the structure of the Earth then moves onto children identifying the seismic similarities and differences between 2 locations (Nepal and Japan). Finally, the children work together in groups to create there own NGO. They then take part in an NGO fair where they try to get support for their NGO. This unit is cross-curricular, making links with science, PSHE and other subjects. It also has High Performance Learning objectives added to the plan so the children better understand why they are learning and how the learning will help them.

This Year 4-6 plan with slides supports students to write a persuasive speech to the British Parliament. It uses evidence from the book ‘Street Child’ along with modality, conjunction-based sentence starters and the language of persuasion to help children to write a speech from Lord Shaftesbury to the British Parliament. The unit also includes debate and a final public reading lesson. The unit is designed to stand alone but can be used to build connections for those classes who are studying Victorian Britain and/or the book ‘Street Child’.