National Curriculum Units of Work

Breadcrumbs

Teaching Schemes based on Units of Work

Unit 1A Ourselves

These are the sections that will be covered - as we complete the sections you will be able to click on the numbers below to find the releveant part of the Learn website.

2. The five senses.

3. Animals and humans.

4. Growing and changing.

5. Matching adult and baby animals.

8. How animals move.

9. Living and non-living things.

10.Eating and drinking.

 

Unit 2A Health and Growth

5. Children and young animals growing into adults.

 

Unit 2B Plants and animals in the local environment

1. Introduction - grouping animals and plants.

2. Looking for animals and plants in the school grounds.

3. Describing local habitats - compare

7. Animal reproduction and growth - life cycle.

8. Review - story or presentation.

 

Unit 2C Variation

1. Grouping animals and plants.

2. Humans and other animals - variations within groups.

6. Recording animals and plants - extension of 1. above.

 

Unit 4B Habitats

1. Introduction - more on grouping/keys.

2. Finding different habitats.

3. Different animals in different habitats - factors affecting distribution.

4. Grouping living things.

5. Using keys.

6. Investigating plants and animals - habitat preference tests etc

7. Finding out about habitat preferences, food sources etc for particular species.

8. Identifying food chains.

9. Habitats need protection.

 

Unit 6A Interdependence and Adaptation

1. Keys as an introduction.

4. Use keys to identify animals and plants in a local habitat.

5. Interdependence of Plants and Animals.

6. Food Chains

9. Different animals and plants in different habitats.

10.Tracing Food Chains

 

Unit 7C Environment and feeding relationships

1. How does the environment influence the animals and plants living in a habitat?

2. How do environments vary? (a.)

3. How do environments vary? (b.)

4. How do environments vary? (c.)

5. Checking progress.

6. What is a feeding relationship? (a.)

7. What is a feeding relationship? (b.)

8. What do food webs tell us? (a.)

9. What do food webs tell us? (b.)

10.What do food webs tell us? (c.)

11.Reviewing work.

 

Unit 7D Variation and Classification

1. How do individuals of the same species differ from each other? (a.)

2. How do individuals of the same species differ from each other? (b.)

3. What are the causes of variation? (a.)

4. What are the causes of variation? (b.)

5. Checking progress.

6. How can we describe living things? (a.)

7. How can we describe living things? (b.)

8. How can we sort things into groups? (a.)

9. How can we sort things into groups? (b.)

10.How do scientists classify living things? (a.)

11.How do scientists classify living things? (b.)

 

Unit 7I Energy Resources

9. How do living things use energy? (a.)

10.How do living things use energy? (b.)

11.How do living things use energy? (c.)

 

Unit 8D Ecological Relationships

1. and 2. How can animals be classified?

4. and 5. How do plants, animals and environmental conditions interact in a habitat - how to collect data about habitats.

6. and 7. How do plants, animals and environmental conditions interact in a habitat - What lives there?

8.,9.and 10. How do plants, animals and environmental conditions interact in a habitat? Why do the communities differ in different habitats?

11. and 12. How do plants, animals and environmental conditions interact in a habitat? Measuring the populations in a habitat.

13. and 14. How do living things in a community depend on each other?