Special Topics : Remembrance Day : Poppy Field


This art and design teaching pack for all year groups gets the children to select and combine materials to make models of poppies to thank and remember special people who have supported them in the past. The class can explain why the shape and colour of poppies are used to remember others.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and combine materials to make models of poppies to thank and remember special people who have supported them in the past

Learning Objectives

Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products. Understand and explain the meaning of symbols on a specific theme.

Learning Outcomes

I can combine and shape materials to make a decoration on a specific theme. I can explain why poppies are used to remember others.

Poppies

Display posters for whole class discussion to help the children identify and describe different flower shapes and colours

Poppy Shape

Template to help the children select and combine materials to make models of poppies to remember how others have supported them in the past

Thank You Tag

Template to help the children practise writing sentences to thank and remember special people in their lives to accompany model poppies

Poppy Field

Interactive activity to help the children select and combine materials to make models of poppies to thank and remember special people who have supported them in the past

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to select and combine materials to make models of poppies to thank and remember special people who have supported them in the past

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