Session Outline • Talk about features of the seaside and common activities. Have the children ever made sandcastles?

• Explain that today they are going to experiment with soil and water to create their own ‘mud-castles!’

• Provide lots of equipment such as buckets, spades, funnels, flags, etc for the children to create and investigate with their own designs.

Open Questions • How can you make the soil softer/ harder/ firmer/ runnier? • Can you connect mud castles to make a fort? • Can you mould the soil with your hands? Differentiation: Mixed ability/ whole group work. Extension: Can you build additional features for your mud castles such as towers, moats, drawbridges, etc?

Lesson Objectives Children will manipulate soil and water to make and build structures. Resources soil, water, buckets, spades, flags. Key Vocabulary build, castle, soft, hard, moat, tower. Risk Assessments Generic Site RA.

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C&L: Extends Vocabulary PSED: Work as part of group PD: Handles malleable materials with increasing control M: Uses everyday language to talk about position, size and distance. L: Uses vocabulary influenced by experiences UW: Looks closely at change EAD: Manipulates materials to achieve a planned effect

Learning Outcomes

LA - Children will manipulate soil and water to make and

build structures.

MA - Children will manipulate soil and water to make and

build structures, with a purpose in mind.

HA - Children will manipulate soil and water to make and build structures. They can

explain their designs and how to combine materials to

achieve the desired affect.

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