Science Year 4 Planning Friction Habitats Moving and Growing Liquids

4 nice bits of planning.

3 notebooks.

Plus powerp0ints and worksheets.

Science Year 4 Planning Friction Habitats Moving and Growing Serarating Liquids and solids

example Sorting organisms
Elicit children’s understanding of ‘plant’ and ‘animal’. Introduce the term ‘organism’ as a general term for all living things.
Obtain a list of various types of organism and arrange them on the board into loose classes, e.g. birds, mammals, reptiles, shrubs, flowers, trees, moss etc. Finish by putting the classes into either plants or animals.
Use pictures of eg vertebrates, invertebrates(animals without a backbone), humans, small flowering plants, trees and challenge children to sort them according to their own criteria and then into plants and animals. Let children choose how to record their groupings. (numbers of legs, wings, no wings, leaves, shape)
Introduce the idea of some organisms being in more than one group – show using a venn diagram.
See photocopiable – PM1 for pictures of invertebrates.
More able children – encourage to sort into sets based upon something more scientific – e.g.how the animal moves, or the shape of the plant.
Pose questions – Is it possible for an organism to have wings and not have any legs?
Identifying different habitats
Introduce children to the word ‘habitat’ using pictures to illustrate meaning. Explain the meaning of ‘habitat’. Explain that it is the natural home of plants and animals and a place which offers them food, protection and shelter.
Explain to children that they will be studying local habitats.
Go for a walk round the school and/or immediate locality to find and make a list of habitats. (Pond, school field, wooded area, grass, trees) Sketch the habitats as we travel around the school grounds. Review the final list with the children and group habitats of similar scale or diversity together eg pond, field, wood, tree, hedge, flower bed, grassy patch, plant trough, under leaf, under stone. Ask children to record the habitats identified through illustrations.