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Life on Land - Year 5 Walliston Primary with Claire Davenhall

by Claire,

Session 7

DATE 18.6.2025

90-minute session in the classroom:

Warm Up

We played the memory game, where students looked at the items on the tray and tried to remember all the things on there. We took 1 or 2 things away and see if they can guess which ones, they can take turns to play the game. They very so good at this we could have played it all afternoon.

Main Activity

Linking to the object on the try
🦎 HOW TO PROTECT OUR NATIVE LIZARDS
🌿 Create an imaginative and informative poster to show how we can help blue tongues, skinks & water dragons thrive!

✅ What You CAN Do:

🌱 Plant native grasses & groundcovers – lizards need places to hide!
🍓 Grow berries or nectar plants – they attract tasty bugs.
🍂 Leave leaf litter – it's perfect for insect snacks!
🌿 Use mulch – keeps the soil cool and hides lizard food.
🪵 Add rocks, logs & bark – great for sunbaking and shelter.
🐈 Keep cats indoors or use a safe outdoor cat run.
💧 Place a shallow water bowl in a quiet shady spot.
🐸 Build a pond – include sticks or rocks as ramps!
♻️ Compost scraps – attracts insects for lizards to eat.
👀 Check before mowing or reversing – blue tongues love lawns!

❌ What to AVOID:

☠️ No chemicals or snail pellets – they can poison lizards.
🥣 Don’t feed pets outside – lizards can get hurt near food bowls.
🪨 Don’t take logs or rocks from nature – they’re someone else’s home!
🦎 Don’t collect wild lizards – let them come to you.
🍂 Don’t rake everything up – messy gardens = happy lizards!
🍽️ Don’t feed lizards – they’re good hunters and love the challenge!

🌼 Best Plants for Lizards:

Bottlebrush (Callistemon)
Grevilleas
Wallaby Grass
Kangaroo Grass

🎨 Design your poster with bold writing, pictures, and colours. Show how we can share our gardens with our scaly friends!

Reflection with the students

Gallery walk of our work and look at the creative ways students have presented information.

After the session:

Planning with the Teacher
(refer back to your original Term Plan document, discuss successes, explore challenges and make changes.)

Boxes should arrive next week to make our habitats

Working with students
(what is emerging, what is engaging them/not, what’s making them curious.)

Lots of crafting and improving

Ideas moving forward
(ideas for next session, future lessons, discussed with teacher, do you need the teacher to do anything before you return.)

Scavenger hunt to find things to make our habitats with.
We need a planning meeting for next term.

Resources
(do you need anything, who will source it?)

Who will pick up the boxes? We need glue and natural elements
Did you want to make the Creative habits board?

How can you share learning outcomes/stories of transformation with the wider school community (e.g. Connect newsletter, staff meeting, school newsletter, school social media platforms)

We can showcase the fieldbooks and boxes at parents' night next term.