Exploring real and imaginary situations

Suggested Participants – Early Years/P1

The farm is a great background to explore and then replicate as an imaginary situation. There are a wide variety of farm animals, machinery and job roles that can be explored. This pack focuses on farm animals and provides videos, role play and additional ideas to support exploration.

What this pack contains: 

• All the resources to undertake the ‘Exploring real and imaginary situations’ activity with your early years/p1 class.

• Learning Intentions, Success Criteria and Suggested Experiences & Outcomes.

• Learning for Sustainability links.

• Lesson plan.

• Suggested additional activities.

Learning outcomes:

• We are learning about movement and voice.

• We are exploring real situations using improvisation.

Success Criteria:

• I can use movement and sound to become a farm animal.

• I can discuss farm animals.

• I can identify some farm animal words.

Experiences and Outcomes

• EXA 1-12a I enjoy creating, choosing and accepting roles, using movement, expression and voice.

• EXA 1-14a I have developed confidence and skills in creating and presenting drama which explores real and imaginary situations, using improvisation and script.

• EXA 1-17a I can use my voice, musical instruments and music technology to discover and enjoy playing with sound, rhythm, pitch and dynamics.

Learning for sustainability:

• Goal 4 Quality education: achieve literacy and numeracy.