2 full lessons includes lesson plans resources and flipbook.
Fun-engaging lesson that can easily be done at home.
1st lesson: Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that plants provide food for humans
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • state that humans eat some plants
2nd Lesson Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that there are different plants in the environment • to make observations of one or two plants and of where they grow and to communicate these
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • name some common plants • describe where some common plants grow
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2 Full lessons includes lesson plans, worksheets and visual aids.
1st Lesson: Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that the Earth is approximately spherical • that it can be difficult to collect evidence to test ideas and that evidence may be indirect
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • recognise that the Earth is approximately spherical • describe some indirect evidence to support the idea that the Earth is spherical
The task: the children to use different coloured pens to outline/underline the various factors that are listed below (these will need to be written on a board). • Factual information • Evidence that supports the theory that the Earth is spherical • Opinion of the author
2nd Lesson: Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that the Moon takes approximately 28 days to orbit the Earth • that the different appearance of the Moon over 28 days provides evidence for a 28 day cycle
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • explain that the pattern and timescale of the changes in the Moon’s appearance over 28 days is evidence that the Moon orbits the Earth once every 28 days
The task: Ask the children to cut out and arrange the pictures and names of the phases of the Moon in the correct sequence around a representation of the Earth. This will show how the appearance of the Moon changes over the course of its orbit.
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2 full lessons with Flipbook, Worksheet and Resources
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • to recognise and identify a range of common materials • to consider why particular materials are used to make items
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • say whether some objects are made of plastic, wood, metal or rock • say why an item might be made with a particular material
Lesson centered around grouping objects of the same material
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • about some properties of common materials such as hardness and transparency
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • state one or two characteristics of a range of common materials
Prompts children to consider some properties of a set of objects and to read information from their tables.
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2 full lessons with resources, flipbook and worksheets
1st lesson:
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that rocks and natural materials are chosen for particular purposes because of their characteristics
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • relate the use of some rocks and natural materials to their characteristics and say why they are used
Lesson focuses on describing the use of material in buildings.
Do you recognise this building? Try to describe it. • Describe the main building material(s) that was (were) used to make this building. • Are the materials natural or man-made? If the materials are man-made, what do you think the original material was? (e.g. glass is made from sandstone/silica) • Why do you think these materials have been chosen?
2nd lesson:
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • about planning a fair test and using results to draw conclusions
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • explain whether a simple test is fair and what the results indicate
Lesson focuses which rock is the most permeable?
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2 Lessons with worksheets, lesson plans and flip book.
1st Lesson
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that plants need water but not unlimited water, for healthy growth • to use results to draw conclusions
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • state that plants need water to grow but too much or too little water may kill them • describe differences in the way the plants grew
Lesson centered around an investigation to find out how the amount of water a runner bean seedling is given affects how much it grows.
2nd Lesson
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • to suggest how a fair test could be carried out • that in experiments with living things, using just one plant in each set of conditions does not give sufficient evidence
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • recognise the correct order in which to undertake a simple investigation • describe factors that contribute to the test being fair • suggest why one sample may not be adequate in each set of conditions
Science lesson centered around an investigation- Does soil type affect the height to which seedlings grow?
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2 lessons with resources, lesson plan and worksheets.
1st Lesson:
Learning objectives
Children should learn: • how to test an idea about whether a material is suitable for a particular purpose • to take measurements and say what they found out
Learning Outcomes
Children will be able to: • make a suggestion about which material might be the most stretchy • test materials for stretchiness and collect measurements.
Lesson name: Giant’s Tights- Children test different materials for a purpose.
2nd Lesson- Learning objectives
Children should learn: • that materials are chosen for specific purposes on the basis of their properties • why different clothing materials are needed in different situations
Learning outcomes
Children will be able to: • identify reasons for using materials for particular purposes • identify a range of materials and correctly associate them with properties and uses
Lesson name: All the wrong clothes
Children decide the materials for clothes in different locations.
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Get the full unit via our website: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/year-2-english-literacy-explanation-5-lesson-unit-life-cycles-12330576
Includes Lesson plan and Worksheets
WALT • Read and follow a text about the life cycle of a plant. • Know what a glossary is.
This long lesson links to the topic of plants and how they grow by introducing the children to a variety of seeds. It may be preferable to spread the lesson over two sessions, using the Glossary activities on the second day. Children will complete an investigative study, which will form the basis upon which they will learn how to read and compose explanatory texts.
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