DEVELOPMENTAL DOMAINS CONCEPT MAP
PERSONAL / SOCIAL / EMOTIONAL
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Make your own sensory “ecosystem”
Fishing boats “dramatic play”
“milking the cow” dramatic play
“shearing a sheep” sensory experience
Which animal is in the box? (Covered box with different textured
animals in it)
Putting animals in ecosystems
Farmer Mick incursion
Making/ painting backdrops to use in the block corner (e.g., A
farm)
Puppet show (using animal puppets)
“round sheep up” (balloons as “sheep” and a container as their
paddock)
“collecting eggs” from a hutch (dramatic or a real experience)
Cleaning muddy animals sensory bin
Jelly sensory experience (getting animals out of the jelly)
PHYSICAL: Gross Motor
Animal walk
Monkey ladder (using floor ladders)
Digging up animals in the sand pit
“Shearing” a sheep shaving cream
Hopscotch (using animal names instead of numbers)
Different sized block obstacle course (mountain goat jumping)
Using songs to get children to act like animals
Dramatic play with animal costumes
“dinosaur” workouts
Follow the animal tracks obstacle course
Concept: Animals Term: 3 PHYSICAL: Fine Motor
Weeks: 3-4 Sensory ecosystems that have manipulatives
Small world play
CREATIVE / AESTHETIC
“rescue mission” (getting the animals out of ice)
Making a pet rock and an ecosystem to go with it
Playdough (creating animals)
Making animal track artwork
Building a “cage” for zoo animals (pop-sticks & playdough)
Making an animal fossil and painting it
Measuring the different animals
Exploring “fizzing chicken eggs” (bath bombs with a chicken egg inside)
Water dropping (giving the animals water)
Making macaroni snakes
Animal rescue (using wool and a container)
Making handprint animals
Making animal fossils (playdough)
Categorizing animals by colour Making an “ocean in a bottle”
Making an edible frog life cycle “feed the baby animals” activity
COGNITIVE / LANGUAGE
Building their own terrarium “Dinosaur dig” sensory bin
Making food for animals
Dancing snakes’ experiment
SPIRITUAL / MORAL
Animal paw print painting
Giraffe spots science experiment
Finger painting (ocean)
Animal sleep meditation for kids:
Salt, glue and water colour paint “snake” experiment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqbQQujdis8
Colour a chameleon (glass jar with a chameleon drawn on it, pipettes and food dye)
Animal yoga for kids:
How do artic animals stay warm in icy water? Science experiment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XCQfYsFa3Q
Elephant toothpaste science experiment Painting large carboard animals (done by all the students)
Ice and salt experiment (animals will be stuck in the ice) Learning how to care for animals (class pet)
Shark buoyancy Reading children’s literature that emphasises caring for animals:
“animal care” by Amy Adeney, “Before you where mine” by
Static electricity- butterfly experiment Maribeth Boelts, “charlotte’s web” by E.B. White, “Animal Rescue”
by Patrick George.
Create your own ocean in a jar
Using mindful stories about animals when a child needs to calm
Making your own “tide” pool down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cH0x6OhR7w
Jelly fish in a bottle (inquiry)