Living things and their habitats: Glascote Primary School_2
Key Stage 2: Year 3
Explore habitats
Activities
Activity 1
Learning will take place in an outdoor environment (Glascote Primary School). As part of the first activity the children will have to identify
objects which are living, dead or have never been alive. Then they will be able to compare the different features of the objects.
As a starting point children will work with their learning partners to write a list of objects which they have seen whilst being in the outdoor environment. Then the children will
carefully observe what happens to certain plants over a certain period of time. During the observations the children will also be able to measure how tall a plant grows over a
certain period of time. During the observations the children will also be able to measure how tall a plant grows using a ruler which will help the children make useful links
between Maths and Science.
Links to the National Curriculum:Science
Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead and things that have never been alive.
Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the
basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other.
Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including micro - habitats
Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and
identify and name different sources of food.
Links to the National Curriculum: Mathematics
Choose and use appropriate standard units to estimate and measure length/height in any direction (m/cm); mass (kg/g); temperature (oC);
capacity (litres/ml) to the nearest appropriate unit, using rulers, scales, thermometers and measuring vessels
Identify and describe the properties of 2 - d shapes, including the number of sides and line symmetry in a vertical line
Identify and describe the properties of 3 - d shapes, including the number of edges, vertices and faces
Interpret and construct simple pictograms, tally charts, block diagrams and simple tables