Lesson video

Hi, everybody, it's Miss Simkin here to teach you a science lesson today.

Today, we are going to be learning all about the rainforest habitat, and I promised you last lesson that I was going to teach you about two of my favourite animals.

So, let's get started.

Our lesson question today is what lives in a rainforest habitat? In today's lesson, we're going to start with our star words, then we're going to learn what a rainforest habitat is like, then we're going to learn about the organisms that live in a rainforest.

Remember, an organism is a plant or an animal.

Then, at the end of the lesson, we're going to do a matching activity, just like we did with deserts last week.

And then, at the very end of the lesson, you will have a chance to see how much you have remembered in your end of lesson quiz.

For today's lesson, you're going to a piece of paper, a pencil, a coloured pencil, but you might want more than one today because we're going to do some drawings again, and you're going to need your brain.

If you don't have those things, can you pause the video and go and get them now, please? Great, now that we've got everything that we need, it's time to wake our brains up.

Give it a gentle tap, now give it a big shake to get the blood rushing, and then three deep breaths so all the oxygen goes to your brain.

Ready? Ah, great, now we can start.

These are our star words for today.

I'm going to say them, and then you're going to say them when I point at the screen.

Rainforest, habitat, organisms, compare, tamarin, poison dart frog.

Good, that one's long, let's try it again, poison dart frog.

Great.

So the rainforest is the habitat that we're going to be learning today.

A habitat, can you remember, what was our action to help us remember what a habitat is? If you know it, show me.

Great, it's this, and why was this our action? What does this represent? Ah, oh yes, a habitat is the home or the natural home of an organism.

And what's an organism? We spoke about it during our lesson agenda.

It's a plant or a.

Animal, great.

The next word on our list is compare.

Today, we're going to be comparing two things.

That means we're going to be seeing what's the same about them and what's different about them.

And then, tamarin and poison dart frog are both animals that we're going to be learning about today.

Before we start, let's do some quick recap on the desert habitat, which we learned about last lesson.

How would you describe a desert? I'm going to give you a clue with my actions.

Tell your screen.

Great, a desert is very hot during the day, it's very cold at night, and it's very dry.

Good job.

Now, let's move on to our new habitat for today, rainforest habitats.

Here is a picture from a rainforest.

Rainforests are humid.

My turn, humid, your turn.

Humid means when the air is very moist, there's lots of water in the air.

It can feel quite sticky and muggy when it's humid.

So, when is it humid here? It's humid when, on a really hot day, when then it suddenly turns to a thunderstorm and you can feel that humidity in the air, it's still hot and sticky, but there's water in the air.

There's also lots of rain in rainforests, that's why they're called rainforests.

It rains lots and lots and lots in a rainforest.

And there are lots of trees in a rainforest, so it's called rain forest, it's like rain plus trees, OK, and both of those things are really important because it means the animals and the plants in a rainforest need to be able to survive in those conditions.

Did you know that it can take 10 whole minutes for a raindrop that falls from the sky to travel to the ground of a rainforest? That is because there's so many leaves from all the trees getting in the way, that instead of just going to the ground it does like boom, boom, boom and keeps bouncing off different leaves.

OK, there are three things that a rainforest is.

Humid, what could our action be for humid, maybe something like this 'cause it starts with water in the air.

Can you show the action for humid? Good, and then lots of rain, you have the water falling down.

Show me your action for rain.

And then lots of trees.

What could our action be for trees? Maybe standing up like this, like a tree, or like this, your arms are out.

Great, can you show me the action for humid? Lots of water in the rain.

Show me the action for rain and show me your action for tree.

Good job.

Here is a map of where the rainforests are in the world.

So they're the green bits that you can see on the map.

So, you can see there's some small bits of rainforest in North America and Central America.

There's a big patch of rainforest here in South America, in Brazil and some countries.

Do you know what that rainforest is called? It begins with an A.

It's the Amazon rainforest.

My turn, Amazon rainforest.

Good job.

There's also some rainforests here in the middle of Africa, we see it on the west side.

And then, you've got around some of the edges of Australia, lots on this island down here, which is New Zealand.

And there, you've got lots of rainforests on these islands, which are Indonesia and Malaysia.

And then, up here in Southeast Asia as well.

So lots of rainforests in the world.

Can you get your finger, and can you please point to the big rainforest that begins with an A? Good job, that's over here in Brazil, and it's called the, say it to your screen, the Amazon, good job.

OK, now, can you please get your pencil and your piece of paper ready, and can you write a sentence to describe a rainforest? Rainforests are, remember the actions that we did to help you.

Pause the video and write your sentence for me now, please.

Great, good job.

You might have written something like this.

Rainforests are humid, rainy and they have lots of trees.

The words in bold are the key ones to include.

So can you give yourself a tick each time you've written one of those words and can you add them in with your different-colored pencil if you've missed one of them out? Pause the video if you need some time to mark this question.

Good job, OK.

Now, I'm going to show you a picture of a rainforest next to the picture of the desert.

We're going to compare them.

I would like you to tell me what are the differences between the rainforest and the desert, and I wonder if you could write down a few of your ideas.

What are the differences between the rainforest and the desert? Pause and video and write down or think about some of your ideas.

Good job, OK.

So, these are some of my ideas.

I wonder if you thought the same.

I thought the differences were, well, the rainforest is very wet, and the desert is very dry.

There's lots of trees and plants in the rainforest, but there aren't very many in the desert at all.

And I said that the rainforest was humid, whereas the desert is just hot and dry.

Did you get anything that was the same as me? Good job.

OK, now, we're going to look at some of the organisms that live in a desert.

And here is one of my first favourite animals.

This was my favourite animal when I was in Year Two, when I was the same age as you, and I first saw it in London Zoo.

This is called a tamarin.

My turn, tamarin.

It's type of monkey, and it's actually, its full name is the golden lion tamarin.

I'm going to say it, and then you're going to say it.

Golden lion tamarin.

Good job.

Now, I loved this animal because it was so brightly coloured, and it was really small and cute.

Golden lion tamarins are only kind of that size, and it was really good if you were ever playing a game of Hangman 'cause golden lion tamarin is, one, a really long word, so it's quite tricky for other people to guess, and two, not many other people had golden lion tamarins as their favourite animals, so people often didn't guess it, then I would win.

A golden lion tamarin lives in the rainforest in South America.

It's an omnivore.

That means that it eats, can you remember, what do omnivores eat? Omnivores eat both plants and animals.

So, golden lion tamarins eat a mix of things.

They eat fruit and seeds, but they also eat insects and small birds and lizards and frogs.

They spend their whole life in the trees, which is why it's so suited to living in a rainforest.

And its territory, that means the distance that it travels in its home is 100 acres.

How many acres? 100, which is the same size as 65 football pitches.

Well, imagine if your home was that big, 65 football pitches.

But sadly, there are only 1,500 tamarins left in the wild.

So they're endangered, there's not very many of them left.

Can you remember, what do golden lion tamarins eat? See if you can remember any of the one things that it eats and say it to your screen.

Good, fruit, insects, birds, seeds, frogs.

Well done if you remembered any of those.

OK, the next organism that you find in a rainforest is a type of plant called an orchid.

My turn, orchid.

Great, there are lots of different types of orchids that grow in the rainforest.

They are brightly coloured and this is to attract insects.

And most importantly, again, they're suited to live in the rainforest because they grow on trees.

Orchids in other countries or orchids that live in different habitats that don't live in the rainforest grow on the ground.

But these orchids are actually able to grow on the branches of trees so they can grow really high up, which suits the rainforest, doesn't it, because we've learned that a rainforest is fill of trees.

Why is it good that an orchid can grow on trees? Tell your screen.

Good, because a rainforest is full of trees.

Good job.

OK, are you ready for my next favourite animal? It's the poison dart frog.

Not only does it have a really cool name, these frogs are really tiny.

They're quite like really small animals.

I don't know why, but it's really tiny, they're like this size, and they come in these beautiful bright colours.

So the one on the screen is blue, but you also get them in bright yellows and bright reds and bright oranges and bright greens, and they just look amazing.

Now, there's a reason for those bright colours.

It's not just 'cause this mist that can light the bright colours.

The reason that these frogs are brightly coloured is because their bright colours send a message to predators, and they say, warning, warning, I am poisonous, do not eat me.

OK, so the predators have learned that things that are that brightly coloured are poisonous, and so, it keeps them away.

And the frogs are poisonous.

That's why they're called poison dart frogs.

But another really cool thing about them is that the indigenous people who used to live in the South American rainforest where these frogs come from, they knew that these frogs were poisonous, and so, they used it to their advantage.

They used something called a dart, which is when you have like a hollow tube, like a straw or a bit of bamboo, like this, and you put a really sharp thing in it, that's the dart, and then you can blow it out like that, and the dart will blow out, and it will land in whatever it is that you're trying to catch, maybe you're trying to catch a bird to eat, OK? So that's what a dart is.

Can everybody make a dart with their hand? So you need a circle in your hand, and you're going to practise blowing it, OK? Get your dart ready and then one, two, three.

Good job.

Now, the indigenous people who lived in the rainforest, they used to take their darts, and they'd rub them on the backs of these frogs, so they get their poison all over them, and then their darts would be poisonous, too, and then, when they blew them , whatever they hit would not just get a dart in them, they would get a poison dart in them.

So that's why they're called poison dart frogs.

What are they called? Good job.

OK, let's see how much of that you remembered.

We are going do to a matching activity, just like we did last week with our desert organisms. So the first thing I'd like you to do, please, is to draw a picture of each organism.

So can you draw a picture of the tamarin, the orchid, and the poison dart frog, and make sure that you leave some space below each picture because that's where you going to write your facts in a moment.

Pause the video and do that for me now, please.

Great, OK.

I'm going to show you a fact, and then you need to tell your screen which organism it is about.

Is it about the tamarin, the orchid, or the poison dart frog? So, grows on trees.

Which organism grows on trees, tell your screen.

Yes, it's the orchid, good job.

So can you write that fact underneath your orchid? Grow on trees.

Pause the video and write your fact.

Fantastic, are you ready for the next one? OK, has a territory of 100 acres, or 65 football pitches.

Which organism is this about? Tell your screen.

Great, it's the tamarin.

Well done, can you pause the video and write this fact underneath your picture of the tamarin? Pause the video now.

Good job.

OK, next one.

Brightly coloured to attract insects.

Which one was this, there were two that were brightly coloured, but which was to attract insects? Tell your screen.

Yes, that's right, it's the orchid.

Can you write this fact underneath your picture of the orchid? Pause the video and do that for me now.

Great, good job.

Which organism was brightly coloured to ward off predators, can you remember? That's right, it's the poison dart frog.

Good job.

Can you please write this underneath your picture of your poison dart frog? Pause the video and do that for me now.

Great, OK.

And which animal was very poisonous? The clue's in the name, say it to your screen.

Good, it's the poison dart frog again.

Can you please pause the video and write this underneath your picture of the poison dart frog? Pause the video for me now.

Good job.

And our last fact.

Which animal was an omnivore that eats fruit, flowers, amphibians and insects? Great, it was the tamarin.

Can you write this fact underneath your picture of a tamarin? Pause the video and do that now.

Well one, great job today.

I hope you're really proud of the work that you've done.

You've been working so hard in this unit, All About Habitats.

Remember, just before you go to make sure you complete your end of lesson quiz, please.

I hope you have a fantastic rest of your day, and thank you for listening so carefully to my favourite animals.

I will see you back here for another lesson soon.

Bye, everybody!.