Lower KS2 links

Awesome Owls

• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amounts of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
• Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identify producers, predators and prey

Busy Bees

• Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food
• Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal

CSI

• Asking relevant questions and using different types of scientific enquiries to answer them
• Reporting on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations
• Using straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support their findings
• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
• Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey

Food Chains

• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
• Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey

Food, Digestion and Poo

• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
• Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans
• Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions

Green Plants

• Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers
• Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant
• Investigate the way in which water is transported within plants
• Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal

Habitats

• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
• Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things

Hibernation and Winter Survival

• Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things

Let’s Talk Wolf

• Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating
• Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it
• Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it
• Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases

Lifecycles

• Explore the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal

Nature Detectives

• Making systematic and careful observations and, where appropriate, taking accurate measurements using standard units
• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
• Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways
• Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment
• Identify the different types of teeth [in humans] and their simple functions

Predators

• Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from what they eat
• Identify the different types of teeth in [humans] and their simple functions
• Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey

Rainforests

• Explore the requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant
• Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
• Physical geography, including: climate zones, biomes and vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes, and the water cycle
• Human geography, including: distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water
• Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied

Skeletons

• Identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement
• Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions

Variety of Life

• Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways