Teaching Resource Pack
Minibeasts Teaching Resource Pack
This extensive collection of minibeasts resources includes educational posters, classroom decorations, word wall templates, page templates and worksheets for you to mix and match with your class.
What are โminibeastsโ?
Minibeasts are small animals without backbones. Insects,ย spiders, snails and worms are common types of minibeasts.
Whatโs in this teaching resource pack?
Differentiated minibeast teaching resources for lower, middleย and upper years. This pack is in no particular orderย and is designed for you to mix and match the resources you would like to use in your classroom.
This teaching resource pack includes:
- Minibeasts – Title Poster
- What are Minibeasts? – Poster
- Minibeasts Facts Poster
- Minibeasts Classification Poster
- Insect Anatomy – Poster and Worksheet
- Arachnid Anatomy – Poster and Worksheet
- Identifying Minibeasts Poster
- Minibeasts – Word Wall
- Minibeasts – Cut Out Decorations
- Minibeast Mission – Research Task
- Finding Minibeasts – Activity
- Draw a Minibeast – Activity
- Minibeast Life Cycle – Blank Templates
- Silkworm Life Cycle Poster
- Silkworm Life Cycle Sort
- Life Cycle of a Fly Poster
- Fly Life Cycle Sort Activity
- Grasshopper Life Cycle – Blank Template
- Butterfly Life Cycle Poster
- Minibeast Adjectives Worksheet
- Snail and Slug Minibeast Page Border – Word Template
- Slug and Snail Minibeast Page Borders
- Minibeasts – Banner
- Minibeasts – Portrait Page Border
- Minibeast Fact Cards
- Minibeasts – Letters and Number Bunting
- Minibeasts – Letter, Number and Punctuation Set
National Curriculum Curriculum alignment
- Key Stage 1 (KS1)
Key Stage 1 (KS1) covers students in Year 1 and Year 2.
- Key Stage 2 (KS2) - Lower
Key Stage 2 (KS2) - Lower covers students in Year 3 and Year 4.
- Science
The principal focus of science teaching in key stage 1 is to enable pupils to experience and observe phenomena, looking more closely at the natural and humanly-constructed world around them. They should be encouraged to be curious and ask questions a...
- Animals, including humans
- Living things and their habitats
- Science
The principal focus of science teaching in lower key stage 2 is to enable pupils to broaden their scientific view of the world around them. They should do this through exploring, talking about, testing and developing ideas about everyday phenomena an...
- Animals, including humans
- Living things and their habitats

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