Lifecycles of sea creatures:

Centre: Explicit / Intentional Teaching: Centre: Life cycle of a fish wind

Salt dough jellyfish life cycle:
Children will use salt dough to shape each stage of the
jelly fish’s life cycle. They can create patterns in the
dough to show the differences between each stage.
Once the children are happy with their creation they
can bake them in the oven with help from a
teacher/teacher’s assistant.
Centre: Recordable pegs:
Children will have their own set of recordable pegs.
They will talk about the life cycle of the fish,
explaining as much details as they remember (one peg
per step). Once done they can show other children in
the group and clip them to their fish life cycle
painting.
Mat session: chime/mobile:
Introduction: Start by reading The Rainbow Fish. Children colour in the stages on the fish life cycle and
Questions to ask the children: What are your order them from start to finish. Once ordered a parent
favourite animals that live in the ocean? Do you helper will help/show them how to hole punch, attach
know how fish grow? Do you know how jellyfish string and tie them in order.
grow? Once the children are curious play the (like this except about fish)
video: All about jellyfish from 4.12 minutes. Ask
the children which stage they liked best and why.
Now show the children the picture cards and
explain the five steps of how fish grow (egg,
larvae, fry, juvenile and adult). Ask the children
which stage they find interesting and why. Explain
to the children that at each activity they will be
creating the life cycles of fish and jellyfish.
Conclusion:
After each student has been to each activity the
Centre: Fish life cycle painting:
teacher will bring them back to the mat. The Children will paint the pictures on the sheet that show
teacher will ask the students what their favourite each step of a fish’s life cycle. Once dry their recordable
activity was and why. Then as a class they will pegs will clip onto the sheet so that children can hear
listen and look at two children’s picture books themselves explaining each step that they have painted.
about the life cycle of a jellyfish. Once done they
will then watch two groups finished green screen
videos on the life cycle of a fish.

Centre: Creating a picture book: Objective/s: Centre: Green screen

Children will use the book creator app on their iPads
to create a picture book that shows each step of the
jellyfish’s life cycle. They will not be writing words,
they will be using voice recorder to explain what is
happening on each page. They can draw and colour in
the pictures. A teacher’s helper will assist children.
 Explore the life cycle of fish and
Jellyfish.
 Name each stage of the life cycles.
Children will dress up in the fish costumes provided and
as a group take on one stage of the life cycle of a fish.
They will act and explain what happens in this stage. A
teacher’s assistant or parent helper will assist the
children in filming.
Assessment & Recording: (What are we assessing? How are we assessing? How are we recording?)

 Students ability to recall the life cycle of the fish and the jellyfish.
 Teacher observations (with notes section) and photo evidence.
 Checklist assessment.

Highlight one or two outcomes specifically connected to your objective/s.

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Reference:

Pfister, M. (1992). The rainbow fish. New York: North-South Books.