Students look closely at a photograph taken on the beach and record their observations. They think and write about the consequences of the things they see.
Task: Make observations from a photograph, identify potential environmental problems giving reasons, decide which problem is the most important, and give reasons for the choice. Assessment focus: (1) observation, and (2) identifying and prioritising cause and effect relationships.
Task: Make observations from a photograph, identify potential problems giving reasons, decide which problem is the most important and give reasons for the choice. Assessment focus: observing, identifying risk.
Make observations from a photograph, identify potential environmental problems giving reasons, decide which problem is the most important and give reasons for the choice.
Task: Sort cards to identify how four items of rubbish will impact on the beach, plants and animals
that are found there, and humans. They then select items to remove and leave, and justify their
decisions. Assessment focus: impact of materials on the environment.
This focus of this resource is punctuating direct speech. Students drag speech marks, commas, and full stops into place to show where direct speech begins and ends. The resource ends with a collaborative writing activity. Students work with a partner to create and punctuate a conversation based on the characters in a photograph.
Students are asked to explain how a stone from the top of a mountain could become sand on a beach. Students then identify the most likely way stones 'move' from the tops of mountains to the coast.
Students are given some information about what to do when whales are stranded on our beaches. They answer three questions using this information to help them.