KS1 year 2 animals including humans complete unit

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This bundle contains six comprehensive lessons which can be picked up and taught from. All lessons are all fully editable to ensure you can edit to meet your children’s needs.

Lesson 1 to know different animals have different types of offspring.

Lesson 2 to name, order and compare stages of the human life cycle.

Lesson 3 to find out how animals change as they grow into adults.

Lesson 4 to describe what animals including humans need to survive.

Lesson 5 to identify the effects of exercise on the human body.

Lesson 6 to investigate the importance of healthy eating and hygiene.

Lesson 1 - In this lesson children will start by completing a number of tasks which remind them of their prior learning from year 1. This will provide an opportunity for the teacher to make a quick assessment of any learning which needs recapping on. This will also ensure that prior learning is at the forefront of children’s mind to make sense of their new learning.

Children will start by thinking abut humans. To avoid misconceptions children are guided to think how they have changed since being a child/ will change as well as differences between themselves and other children. It will be established that although there are many differences humans look like humans.

This will lead into children making a prediction about all animals looking like their offspring.

Children will investigate this independently by matching offspring to their adult.

Lesson 2 - In this lesson children will play a child friendly version of two truths one lie. Children will be informed that Ms Cheeky has changed one of three scientific facts and they have to identify which one is the not fact. This will provide an opportunity for the teacher to make a quick assessment of any learning which needs recapping on. This will also ensure that prior learning is at the forefront of children’s mind to make sense of their new learning.

Children will link their prior learning on offspring by thinking how a baby develops from a baby to an adult. Children will start this by looking at humans as an example of offspring that look like their adult . Children will then move onto looking at a frog. Children will have it highlighted that in future learning that this is called metamorphosis. Children will not needed to remember this to complete their learning.

Once learning about the frog’s lifecycle and given opportunity to consolidate this learning. Children will create their own frog lifecycle.

Lesson 3 - In this lesson children will start by playing a child friendly version of two truths and a lie. Ms Messy has change one of our science facts which is the not true fact? This will ensure that quick assessments can be made of what children have already learnt and identify any gaps that need revisiting. This will also ensure that prior learning is at the forefront of children’s mind to make sense of their new learning.

Children will start by recapping on what life cycles are and label the life cycle of a frog. Children will then complete a number of tasks to help them understand that there are things that they can do now because they are no longer a baby. They will also develop an understanding that there is things they still need to develop to become an adult.

Children will complete the first task

Task 1 - They will name and order the human life stages.

Children will then start to identify when specific things occur for most people during the life cycle.

Task 2 - Children will then identify when things usually start/happen in the life cycle.

Lesson 4 - In this lesson children will start by completing a number of tasks which remind them of their prior learning from year 1 and throughout this unit. This will provide an opportunity for the teacher to make a quick assessment of any learning which needs recapping on. This will also ensure that prior learning is at the forefront of children’s mind to make sense of their new learning.

Children will start with a reasoning partner task (stem sentence provided to promote oracy) This task will involve children identifying which things all animals need to survive.

This will lead into a discussion about the different ways animals meet these needs.

Children will complete independent application task 1.

Children will then focus on dogs. Children will learn about how dogs which will move onto children creating a poster about caring for dogs.

Lesson 5 - In this lesson children will start by completing a number of tasks which remind them of their prior learning from year 1 and throughout this unit. This will provide an opportunity for the teacher to make a quick assessment of any learning which needs recapping on. This will also ensure that prior learning is at the forefront of children’s mind to make sense of their new learning.

After being shown a definition of exercise children will discuss why they think exercise is important. The teacher will discuss the importance with links provided to prior learning such as to help grow into a healthy adult as well as a brief fast forward to future learning about the types of exercise.

Throughout this lesson children will be guided through a full science experiment. Some parts children will independently complete such as the prediction, other parts the teacher will simply show such as the method where as other parts such as the conducting of the experiment will be completed whole class.

The parts of the experiment are explicitly taught for instance children have the concept of prediction explained to them.

In the experiment children will be looking at which exercises raise their heart rate. In the powerpoint each activity has a timer, a discussion and a rest.

Children will discuss with a partner their results and then write these results up.

Lesson 6 -This is the final lesson in a sequence. The lesson can be taught independently without the need for the further lessons or the previous lesson. This lesson can be picked up and taught straight from however this is fully editable.

In this lesson children will start by completing a task which will remind them of their prior learning from year 1 and this unit . This will provide an opportunity for the teacher to make a quick assessment of any learning which needs recapping on. This will also ensure that prior learning is at the forefront of children’s mind to make sense of their new learning.

Children will start by completing a reasoning activity where they will choose which is the healthiest lunch. This includes a stem sentence to support children’s oracy. This will lead into a discussion on what is meant by a balanced diet.

Children will look at the Eatwell guide and discuss why each part is important. Children will sort foods into the correct place.

The lesson will then move onto looking at hygiene. The whole class will take part in a demonstration of how germs spread using glitter.

Children will then learn about germs and hygiene. Children will discuss how we can be hygienic and why it is important.

Children will complete a second independent task where they will create a poster about hygiene.

Every lesson :

Helping hands are provided for children who need additional support as well as a chilli challenges for both independent tasks.

The chilli challenge should be provided to all learners the ’ differentiation ’ is based on how children complete the task.

Vocabulary is explicitly taught and actively reinforced throughout lessons and in subsequent lessons.

Rewind buttons are used to remind child of prior learning, provide in lesson informal assessment opportunities for teachers and put prior learning at the forefront of children‘s mind as they attain new learning.

Fastforward buttons are used to signpost children to future learning.

Children will have stem sentences to support oracy and enable children to focus on the science rather than forming a sentence.

Powerpoint guide
Green slides - Partner tasks , class discussion etc
Red slides - Teacher led tasks
Blue slides - Reflection time
Yellow slides - independent application