Year 6: Full Lesson Plan - Manual / Resource - Page 13
Y6 Maths Lesson Plan: Incredible Creatures
Prior learning
Children should be familiar with different units of measure from lower key stage two. They may not have
practised applying their calculation skills to convert units.
Children should be familiar with division and multiplication from previous years.
Timing
5 mins
Teaching Activity
Quick quiz
Warm up your learners with this active task to get their
bodies moving and their brains working. Using the
Lesson Presentation, ask children to make their guess
about which measurement is the correct world record
for each animal, and to do the corresponding action to
match their best guess.
Go on to explain that today’s lesson will be about
exploring size measurements and converting between
metres, centimetres and millimetres.
Clever conversions
Ask pupils to work in pairs to list all the units of measure
they know for measuring length, height and distance.
Next, ask them to discuss and record the conversions
they know for these units.
10 mins
Bring the children back to the group and show the
answers on the board. Were the pairs correct? Show the
conversions on the next slide.
Ask pupils to work in pairs to convert the length of Keon
the dog’s tail from metres and centimetres into
millimetres.
10 mins
Creature comparisons
Now ask pupils to use these conversion facts to work out
comparisons. Pupils work in groups to discuss the two
comparison questions displayed on the slide. Ensure
pupils use division or multiplication to make the units of
measure the same, then compare them, rather than
guessing.
Ask children to feed back to the class which answer they
chose for each comparison question. Ask the children to
then explain how they worked this out.
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Teacher Notes
Adjust the physical
nature of this challenge
for the whole class if
there is a student who
cannot access the
physical actions (e.g.,
clapping and clicking
their fingers).
You might utilise a TA or
1:1 support for any
children who require
additional help staying
on task with
conversations.
You may match children
in their pairs based on
ability or mix abilities.
Encourage pupils to
discuss these
comparisons in their
groups, providing
reasons for their
answers.
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