Science Year 2 Unit 2a download contents

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Resource Name	Format	Objectives	Resource Details
Vocabulary for unit (9 pages)		Vocabulary to be used during this unit	Cards of words that may be used throughout this unit (27 cards / words – 3 on each sheet)
Health and nutrition (2 pages)		To know that humans need water and food to stay alive	Questions to choose appropriate answer about health and nutrition
Sorting food (2 pages)		To record information in drawing and charts	Sort the names of foods and record on charts showing fruit, vegetable, meat
Grouping foods (1 page)		To recognise that there are many different types of foods	Put the different foods into the correct category. Add own suggestions to each category.
Cards for healthy and not healthy (11 pages)		To know that we eat different kinds of food	22 cards for children to decide which are healthy / not healthy Use in discussions about food unhealthy / healthy, how much etc
Make a healthy plateful (1 page)		To know that we eat different kinds of food	Fill in on a ‘plate’ a variety of healthy foods into the appropriate spaces
Survey on favourite foods (1 page)		To collect information and to present results as a block graph	Sheet on which to conduct survey on favourite foods and present results in a bar graph. Children to write or discuss their findings
My timetable (2 pages)		To recognise that sometimes we eat a lot of some foods and not very much of others	Record what you eat and exercise you do over a week. Do children realise that they may be eating too much of one thing and not enough of another. Fill in other timetable to show what they will try to eat and which exercise to do.
Exercise (2 pages)		To know that we need exercise to stay healthy	Three steps of exercises to do – answer questions about the heart, breathing and how they feel. Answer some general questions
Type of exercise (1 page)		To know that we need exercise to stay healthy	Name and draw pictures of different exercises that you know
My heart beats quickly when …. (1 page)		To make and record observations and to make simple comparisons	Identify and record which of the activities makes the heart beat faster
What happens to your body? (1 page)		To make and record observations and to make simple comparisons	Do a variety of given activities and record how you feel after doing them
Match the animals to their young (1 page)		To know that animals (including humans) produce young and these grow into children and new adults	Pictures as revision to match animals and their young.
Growing up (1 page)		To know that animals (including humans) produce young and these grow into children and new adults	Life cycle picture of humans’ growth with questions to answer
Changes and needs (2 page)		To recognise that babies and children need to be looked after while they are growing	Pictures and information on needs and changes. Questions to answer on needs and changes when growing up.
What does a baby need? (1 page)		To recognise that babies and children need to be looked after while they are growing	Cut out the words and sort into what a baby needs
When I was a baby (1 page)		To make simple comparisons of babies and toddlers	Fill in the answers about when they were a baby and put in a photograph
Babies and toddlers (2 pages)		To ask questions in order to make simple comparisons of babies and toddlers	Information sheet on what babies may do at different ages to a year. Sheet to record the differences of what a baby does to what a toddler does
Baby to toddler (1 page)		To ask questions in order to make simple comparisons of babies and toddlers	Simple sheet on differences between babies and toddlers
Make a prescription ( 1 page)		To know that sometimes we take medicines when we get ill, these help us to get better	Fill in the details for a prescription for someone with a cold, blocked nose etc.
Using medicines (1 page)		To communicate information about the safe use of medicines	Sorting pictures of medicines / not medicines. Sorting who can give medicine safely.