Knowledge Organiser | Year 2 | Block 1: Living Things and Their Habitats

Year 2 living things and their habitats knowledge organiser

This Year 2 living things and their habitats knowledge organiser helps pupils revisit and remember the key knowledge and vocabulary from the Living Things and Their Habitats unit. With clear visuals and child-friendly explanations, it supports pupils in understanding what makes something living, what living things need to survive and how animals and plants are suited to their habitats.

Pupils learn about habitats, microhabitats and simple food chains while developing the scientific vocabulary needed to describe how living things depend on one another and their environment. The knowledge organiser provides a useful reference point throughout the unit and supports retrieval practice, revision and assessment activities.

What’s included?

• Living, dead and never alive with clear definitions
• Basic needs of humans, animals and plants
• Examples of habitats and the organisms that live there
• Microhabitats such as leaf litter, tree bark and soil
• Simple food chains showing feeding relationships
• Key scientific vocabulary with pupil-friendly definitions

Support retrieval and scientific vocabulary

This knowledge organiser can be used as a classroom display, reference sheet, revision tool or science book insert. It helps pupils strengthen subject knowledge, use scientific vocabulary accurately and recall important learning about habitats, food chains and living things.

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