With science week coming up you might be looking for inspiration. This is a 12 slide powerpoint to take you through the lesson. You will just need to sort your own containers, magnifying glasses and big paper to sort your samples on.

Also included within the lesson are discussion questions.
Information about the career of an Environmental Scientist
Suggestions on sorting characteristics
An end of lesson quiz.

I’ve used this with lower Ks2 but it could be easily adapted/tweaked for other ages.

Inspired by the primary science teaching trust - how and why?