Science Year 2 Unit 2b download contents

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Resource Name	Format	Objectives	Resource Details
Vocabulary for unit (13 pages)		Vocabulary to be used during this unit	Cards of words that may be used throughout this unit (38 cards / words – 3 on each sheet)
Plants and animals (2 pages)		To observe and make a record of animals and plants found	Go for a walk in the immediate environment and record on the sheets which animals and which plants were found, where they were, how many
Where might you find animals? (1 page)		To observe and make a record of animals and plants found	Use the list to predict where animals may be found. Stick words on separate papers and write if prediction is correct and any other info.
Finding Plants (1 page)		To observe and make a record of animals and plants found	Make specific recordings about plants found in the school grounds
Plants and animals that may be found on a walk ( 23 slides)		To recognise that there are different kinds of plants and animals in the immediate environment	Pictures of flowers, trees, minibeasts that may be found on a walk in the local environment
Habitats (5 pages)		To learn that there are differences between local habitats To make predictions about the animals and plants found in different local habitats and to investigate these	Make predictions and find out which plants and animals can be found in the given places on each sheet
Plants and seeds (2 pages)		To know that flowering plants produce seeds	Apples and dandelions – information, pictures and questions to answer
Seeds from different plants (1 page)		To know that flowering plants produce seeds	Pictures of seeds from a variety of plants. Can the children match the pictures to real seeds?
Cress heads (1 page)		To turn ideas of their own, about what plants need to begin to grow, into a form that can be tested	Instructions to grow cress and make a ‘head with hair’ which can be cut when it is grown!
Sprouting bean sequence (1 page)		To turn ideas of their own, about what plants need to begin to grow, into a form that can be tested	Cut out and sequence 4 stages of the growth of a bean
What do seeds need to grow? (1 page)		To turn ideas of their own, about what plants need to begin to grow, into a form that can be tested	Sort out which of the given items a seed would need to grow.
Growing seeds (1 page)		To observe and make a day-by-day record of observations	Instructions on how to grow a seed – recording sheet to draw what is happening every two days
Do plants need air? ( 2 pages)		To use the results to draw a conclusion about what seeds need to begin to grow and decide whether this is what they expected	Grow seeds – one with air / one without, record results, draw conclusions
Do plants like to drink the same as you? (1 page)		To use the results to draw a conclusion about what seeds need to begin to grow and decide whether this is what they expected	Experiment to find out and record whether plants live when given fluid other than water
Do plants need light? (1 page)		To use the results to draw a conclusion about what seeds need to begin to grow and decide whether this is what they expected	Experiment to find out whether plants need light. Record what you did and findings
Plants with no water (1 page)		To use the results to draw a conclusion about what seeds need to begin to grow and decide whether this is what they expected	Experiment to show what happens to plants with no water – draw the pictures of the plant on given days to show the difference
All about plants (2 pages)		To show what they know about plants	Children to record what they know and have learnt about plants e.g. parts of a plant, what happens when they get no water etc.
Booklet to make, life cycle of a frog (6 pages)		To recognise that animals reproduce and change as they grow older	Make a booklet, colour in pictures, write as appropriate
The Swan Story (7 pages)		To recognise that animals reproduce and change as they grow older	Information, pictures and questions about a swan and reproduction and life cycle
Life cycles (2 pages)		To recognise that animals reproduce and change as they grow older	Pictures of life cycles of frog and ladybird to join together to show their life cycles.