Living things and their habitats
Year 5
Unit Overview
This unit is linked to the Geography Unit of work: Sow, Grow and Farm
❇ MEMORABLE MOMENT
To dissect a plant.
️✏️ WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
To write about each investigation including the prediction, method and conclusion.
🌳 LEARNING OUTSIDE THE CLASSROOM
To plant some potatoes.
Unit Sequence: Learning Intentions
What is the human life cycle? Describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.
What are the key milestones of a baby's development? Describe the changes as humans develop to old age.
What changes happen when a child becomes an adult? Describe the changes as humans develop to old age.
What changes happen to humans in adulthood? Describe the changes as humans develop to old age.
What are the gestation periods of some mammals? Working scientifically – recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs.
How does a lifespan impact on gestation periods? Working scientifically – Reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and a degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations.
Scientific Enquiry: Investigations
Why do birds lay eggs?
How many potatoes can you grow?
🏁 BIG FINISH
Quiz linked with Geography.
📖 FOCUS TEXT(S)
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.