Rockpool animals KS1 PowerPoint, Google Slides, word wall and printables

Explore a rockpool habitat without getting your feet wet with this rock pool safari. This resource introduces children to some of the animals that make their home in a rockpool through an engaging interactive presentation (PowerPoint and Google Slides) and no-prep printables (word wall and 3 worksheets).

Use this resource to support a habitats unit, to prepare pupils for a trip to the beach, or to compare/contrast rockpool animals with another habitat.

Rockpool safari interactive presentation (18 slides)

This is included as both a PowerPoint and a Google Slides document.

This resource should be used in presentation/slide show mode to work effectively. After a short introduction, you get to a slide showing a cross-section of a rockpool. Click on each creature in the rockpool and it will take you to a slide telling you what it is, and some information about it! There are 10 creatures in total (starfish, sea urchin, barnacles, mussel, crab, hermit crab, jellyfish, sea snail, limpet, anemone).

There are questions to discuss together and once you have looked at a creature, you can easily click back to the rockpool to choose the next one. Animals can be accessed in any order.

The presentation is partially editable (text in white boxes can be changed) but images and titles are fixed in place.

Rockpool vocabulary word wall

18 words to print, cut, and display with colour images.

Worksheets

3 options for printables are also included:

• Draw some animals in the empty rockpool
• Cut and paste label a crab activity
• Blank rock pool animal fact sheet (included with and without lines). Pupils will need to do their own research for this activity.

A US version of everything is included which uses the word tide pool instead of rock pool.