Covering the living things and their habitats Year 2 curriculum objectives, this Living in Habitats scheme of work will help your class find out about different habitats and all the animals and organisms living within them. Through six engaging and easy-to-teach lessons, our animals and their habitats for Year 2 resources will help pupils explore topics such as what makes something living or non-living, different habitats, and how food chains work. They’ll discover forests, ponds, seashores, deserts and even the Arctic. They’ll also learn how every living thing has a home that meets its needs.

Each lesson includes a detailed lesson plan, clear teaching slides, differentiated activity ideas, and colourful printable resources. 

Living and Non-Living Things

In this Living and Non-Living Things KS1 lesson, your pupils will look at the processes common to all living things (such as breathing, eating and moving) and use these to help them identify things that are living, things that are dead and things that have never been alive.

The included habitats slides show some examples for the whole class to consider having a go at sorting living and non-living things into groups for themselves.

This planning pack comes with absolutely everything you need to teach this lesson, including a lesson plan, a corresponding slideshow presentation, differentiated activity ideas and a range of handy printable teaching resources.

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Habitats

In this Year 2 Habitats lesson, your class will explore exactly what a habitat is, and what animals and plants need to live in habitats to suit their needs. Your pupils will identify familiar habitats such as forests, ponds and fields, and think about which animals might live in each one and why.

This Year 2 lesson pack comes fully-prepared and ready for you to teach to your class. There's an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and a range of colourful printable teaching resources.

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Seaside Habitats

Take a trip to the beach with this animals and their habitats Year 2 Seaside lesson! During this fun lesson, your children will think about which animals and plants they might find at the seaside, before exploring how the animals and plants in a seaside habitat are linked together.

During their independent learning tasks, a range of differentiated activities will then help your children express what they have learnt about the plants and animals who live at the seaside.

This Seaside Habitats KS1 planning pack provides everything you need to deliver this lesson, including a lesson plan, slideshow presentation for the whole-class input, and a range of handy printable teaching resources.

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Unfamiliar Habitats

Now that your Year 2 children are familiar with what a habitat is, they can start looking further afield and some habitats that might be less familiar, including rainforests, deserts and the Arctic

They will also spend some time exploring some of the characteristics of animals that live in these habitats and think about how they are suited the environment they live in.

This Unfamiliar Habitats lesson is a great way to get your Year 2 children more familiar with a variety of habitats...and the best part is it's all planned for you and ready to teach!

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Microhabitats and Minibeasts

What are microhabitats? In this 'Microhabitats and Minibeasts' KS1 Science lesson your Year 2 pupils will have the chance to explore microhabitats such as rotting logs or cracks in rocks – and learn about the minibeasts that live there.

The included slideshow presentation goes through some information about both microhabitats and minibeasts as an introduction. Your class can then either go on a minibeast hunt in the school grounds or sort minibeasts according to different criteria.

This Microhabitats and Minibeasts KS1 planning pack contains all the resources you need in order to deliver this lesson to your class. There's an easy-to-follow lesson plan with differentiation, a slideshow for the teaching input, and some handy printable resources.

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Food Chains

By now, your class know that the living things in a habitat are dependent upon each other but this Food Chains KS1 Science lesson will show them exactly how they are linked through food chains.

During the lesson, they will find out that some animals are herbivores, carnivores and omnivores, as well as how plants are at the start of any food chain as the producer. When they come to do their independent work, they can then draw on what they learnt during the teaching input to create some food chains of their own!

This Food Chains KS1 planning pack comes completely planned, prepared and ready to teach to your class with a lesson plan, differentiated activity ideas, a slideshow presentation for the teaching input and a range of handy printable teaching resources.

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