Year 2 Animals Including Humans knowledge organiser: Growth
This Year 2 Animals Including Humans knowledge organiser supports pupils to recap and remember the key learning from the Animals Including Humans – Growth unit. It includes clear visuals, child-friendly explanations and key vocabulary to help pupils build scientific understanding and use accurate scientific language.
The organiser covers human growth and stages of life, healthy eating and food groups, the importance of exercise and hygiene, and how different animals grow and change, including life cycles. It’s ideal for displays, revisiting learning, supporting writing, and helping pupils prepare for the end-of-unit assessment.
What’s included?
- Human growth and stages of life (baby to adult)
- Healthy eating and a balanced diet, including food groups
- Human exercise and how it affects the body
- Human hygiene and why washing hands matters
- Offspring of other mammals and other animals
- Life cycle example (caterpillar to butterfly)
- Key vocabulary with clear definitions
Key vocabulary included
Pupils are supported to use scientific language confidently, with key terms such as:
- offspring, mammal, lifecycle, diet, balanced, hygiene, exercise
- carbohydrate, protein, reptile, amphibian
Perfect for KS1 science
This knowledge organiser includes clear diagrams and labelled examples, making it a helpful tool for whole-class teaching, independent tasks and science displays. The resources do not include year group labels, so they also work well in mixed-age KS1 classes.
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