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Year 2 Science

'Living Things and their Habitats'

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LESSON 1

Overview of lesson

  • Explore the fundamental differences between living things, dead things and non-living things
     

Resources provided

  • Powerpoint: 'living things and their needs'

  • 'Rabbit/rose recording sheet

  • Videoscribe: 'dead versus non-living'

  • Powerpoint: 'dead and non-living things'

You will also need

  • 15+ mixed living/non-living items

LESSON 2

Overview of lesson

  • Appreciate the relationship of animals with their habitats
     

Resources provided

  • Powerpoint: 'diversity of habitats'

  • Animal and habitat sheets

  • Powerpoint: 'animals and their habitats'

You will also need

  • Nothing required

LESSON 3

Overview of lesson

  • Understand the principle of a food chain

Resources provided

  • Videoscribe: 'food chains'

  • Food chain pictures/words and arrows

  • Film: 'food chains in a habitat: the pond'

You will also need

  • Nothing required

Resources provided

  • Powerpoint: 'exploring a micro-habitat'

You will also need

  • Field-recording equipment, eg notebooks, sketch pads, cameras

Resources provided

  • Powerpoint: 'the pond'

Overview of lesson

  • Understand the principle and have firsthand experience of a micro-habitat

Overview of lessons

  • Consolidate themes of habitat and food chains by creating a facsimile pond in the classroom, to include all necessary detail of flora and fauna which could be expected in this habitat.
     

LESSON 4

LESSONS 5 & 6

You will also need

  • materials for making pond elements

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