Lesson plan in PDF and Word Doc format
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 learn what a farmer needs to do to meet the needs of farm animals. It is based on the popular story Farmer Duck written by Martin Waddell.
Pupils act out a study based on what would happen on Farmer Duck’s day off – the farmer needs to do everything to ensure that the farm animals are happy and healthy. To prepare for this lesson, pupils could make their own farm animal masks.
There are four more lessons in the RSPCA ‘Farm Animals’ series, which you can find here:
Included in this lesson plan:
- Starter activity
- Main activity
- Plenary activity
- Curriculum objectives
- Learning outcomes
- Vocabulary
- 7 Worksheets
- Teachers’ notes
Find more great resources from the RSPCA at education.rspca.org.uk/education and follow @RSPCA_official on Twitter.
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