Year 2 Science Block 3 Animals Including Humans - Growth
Year 2 Animals Including Humans – Growth
Teach Year 2 Animals Including Humans – Growth with a complete unit exploring how humans and animals grow and change over time. Pupils learn that animals, including humans, have offspring that grow into adults, and explore how food, exercise and hygiene help humans to grow and stay healthy. Lessons are practical and discussion-rich, with opportunities for pupils to observe closely, carry out simple tests and use scientific vocabulary confidently.
View small steps and unit outcomes
Small steps
- How do humans grow and change?
- How do mammals grow from offspring to adult?
- How do non-mammals grow and change?
- Why is food important for growth?
- Why is exercise important for humans?
- Why is hygiene important for humans?
Unit outcomes (secure)
Animals including humans
- Notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults
- Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene
Working scientifically
- Asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways
- Observing closely, using simple equipment
- Performing simple tests
- Using observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
- Gathering and recording data to help answer questions
Year 2 Animals Including Humans – Growth lesson plans and worksheets
Teach Year 2 Animals Including Humans – Growth with a complete unit focused on growth in humans and animals, and the importance of food, exercise and hygiene for staying healthy. Fully aligned with the KS1 science curriculum, these lessons support pupils to explore key concepts through practical tasks, simple investigations and structured discussion.
Pupils compare themselves as babies and children, explore how mammals and non-mammals grow, learn about healthy meals using food groups, measure their pulse before and after exercise, and investigate effective handwashing using a simple science test.
What’s included?
- Step-by-step planning for all six lessons
- Interactive Year 2 science PowerPoint slides for each lesson
- Differentiated Year 2 Animals Including Humans – Growth worksheets
- Knowledge organisers with key vocabulary and scientific facts
- Hands-on investigations and group activities
- Built-in assessment opportunities to check understanding
Hands-on investigations and activities
- Measuring height and comparing changes from baby to child
- Comparing mammal offspring and adults using measurement and observation
- Exploring the life cycle of a butterfly and learning how some animals change shape as they grow
- Designing a healthy meal and learning about food groups
- Measuring pulse rates before and after exercise and recording results
- Testing how soap helps remove ‘germs’ using a pepper and water investigation
Scientific vocabulary
- Growth, offspring, stages of life
- Mammals, similarity, difference, measure
- Egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, pupa, butterfly
- Carbohydrates, protein, dairy and alternatives, healthy
- Exercise, heart, pulse
- Hygiene, soap, bacteria
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