Primary Theme: Animals
Lesson 5: Are birds carnivores, herbivores or omnivores?
Identifying birds that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores and using pine cones to make bird feeders.
Lesson 5: Life cycle of an insect
Exploring the three-stage and four-stage insect life cycles, identifying patterns in data and predicting new values.
Lesson 5: Rainforest and ocean habitats
Learning about how living things depend on each other in a rainforest and ocean habitat.
Lesson 5: Producers, predators and prey in food chains
Understanding feeding relationships between animals and the effect this has on population size.
Y3/4 (A): Lesson 6: Poo clues
Exploring how biologists use faeces to find out about animals’ diets and constructing results tables to record observations. This lesson is part of the mixed-age scheme.
Investigating science through stories
Consolidating knowledge of plants and animals through picture books and practical investigations.
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Introducing 'Making connections' in Science
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Identify the typical weather associated with each season.
- Describe animal features.
- Recognise similarities and differences between animals in the same animal group.
- Build an animal home with natural materials.
- Explain the difference between carnivores, herbivores and omnivores.
When working scientifically, pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Carry out online research to find answers to questions.
- Measure length in centimetres.
- Suggest how to carry out a waterproof test.
- Begin to recognise if a test is fair.
- Use data to answer questions.
- Recognise patterns in data.
- Group birds according to their diet.
Please note that Kapow Primary Science lessons are designed to be 1 hour and 30 minutes long to reflect the requirements of a core subject.
Suggested prior learning
This unit revises and builds on learning from the previous Year 1 units.Lessons
Lesson 1: Do taller trees have wider trunks?
Lesson 2: Comparing woodland animals
Lesson 3: Measuring animal footprints
Lesson 4: Building an animal home
Lesson 5: Are birds carnivores, herbivores or omnivores?
Key skills
- Exploring the world around them and raising their own simple questions.
- Recognising there are different types of enquiry (ways to answer a question).
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Key knowledge
- The basic structure, including leaves, flowers (blossom), fruit, roots, bulb, seed, trunk, branches and stem, of a variety of common plants, including flowering plants and trees.
- How plants grow and change over time.
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Key vocabulary
amphibian
bird
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Equipment list
Equipment needed across all lessons in this unit.
This list does not include equipment which is usually readily available in the classroom (e.g pencils, A4 paper etc)
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Full equipment list for the subject
Quantities marked × will update. Items without quantities are unaffected
- ‘The Oak Tree’ by Julia Donaldson ×1
- ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson ×1
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Wool or string in three different colours
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Clipboard
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Natural materials for building small animal homes (e.g. sticks, leaves, moss and bark).
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Small plastic animal figure (e.g. a mouse).
1 - Pine cones (with open scales) ×30
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Ripe bananas
10 -
Oats, seeds and dried fruit or wild bird seed (one cup)
×5 - String ×1
The equipment below is optional
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Tape measures
×8 - Devices with internet access ×15
- Magnifying glass ×15
- Dice ×15
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Vocabulary display: Making connections: Investigating science through stories
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Computing: Using devices to retrieve digital content.
Maths: Comparing and measuring length.
English: Listening to poems and stories and using phonic knowledge to spell.
Music: Listening to and joining in with songs.
Geography: Carrying out fieldwork on the school grounds.
British values – mutual respect.
