Farm animal senses lesson plan in PDF and Word Doc form
KS1, KS2
Years 1-6
More than 900 million cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry are reared in the UK each year for food production, along with many millions of farmed fish. Does your class know where their food comes from?
Introduce your young learners to the topic of farm animal welfare. Where our food comes from, the needs of farm animals and how we can be compassionate citizens and make ethical choices to help improve the welfare of animals reared for food.
In this lesson, pupils will label the external parts of five animals farmed in the UK – cattle, sheep, pigs, hens and ducks. They will consider how people and farm animals use their senses.
There are four more lessons in the RSPCA ‘Farm Animals’ series, which you can find here:
- A Little Egg-stra Space
- Egg production and labelling
- Labelling and advertising
- Farmer Duck’s Day Off
Included in this lesson plan:
- Image
- Starter activity
- Main activity
- Plenary activity
- Curriculum objectives
- Learning outcomes
- Vocabulary
- Factsheet
- 3 Worksheets
Find more great resources from the RSPCA at education.rspca.org.uk/education and follow @RSPCA_official on Twitter.
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