A chart identifies how the tasks and activities link with the National Curriculum and the National Literacy Strategy. The pack is intended to make pupils think, discuss ideas and sometimes record using charts, maps, writing or drawing. All tasks are intended to be interesting, fun and to encourage creative learning. The 28 tasks and activities use the Animal Fact Sheets, Habitat Fact Sheets and Conservation and Welfare Fact Sheets. They have been designed to incorporate a range of topics and use a variety of methods which will encourage children to communicate their ideas.
Some tasks are simple enough for an individual child to accomplish, others are group activities.
All can form part of a larger on-going project. Most would be very appropriate for presentation in a school assembly or at a parents' curriculum evening. A number of Task Sheets require children to use drawing to demonstrate their understanding of the information they have read. Drawing could be replaced by painting or model-making, we have left this as matter for the teacher to decide. Any Task Sheets suggest that children highlight the information they are looking for as they read.