Science – Biology – Animals and Habitats
Intent, Implementation and Impact
Subject Key Objective Progression & Development by Year Groups
The following is a guide to help you understand your child’s progression through school.
All lessons are differentiated. This means teachers plan activities that enable the objective to be learned by all children including those who will find the objective challenging, those children who with hard work will secure good progress and those children who can tackle extra stretch and challenge in this subject.
Intent, Implementation and Impact
The curriculum is designed with our pupils and the Swinemoor community in mind.
It enables children to access and enhance their understanding of their home, their town and the wider community, developing their cultural capital and giving them opportunities and choices about their future and their impact as they progress through their school career and beyond.
This will help them become successful members of modern British society, preparing them for the challenges and opportunities.
Science – Animals & Habitats
EYFS: “They make observations of animals and explain why some things occur.”
KS1: “To identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited.”
KS2: “TTo identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.”
EYFS:
Animal (T1)
Home (T1)
Garden (T1)
KS1:
Grow (T1)
Off Spring (T2)
Habitat (T2)
KS2:
Organism (T3)
Environment (T2)
Evolution (T3)
Children will gain an understanding of animals and their habitats.
Pupils may demonstrate knowledge of a variety of environments and the animals that live there.
They will have a knowledge of diverse environments around the world and know the effect of global change on these environments.
What will be made, produced, performed, or published?
Children will produce a piece of portfolio work, demonstrating their knowledge and understanding. They will participate in a sequence of lessons with a scientific focus, producing a range of evidence including written work.
What knowledge will the children have embedded?
Children will be able to recall specific scientific facts about animals and their habitats,, appropriate to age. They will demonstrate an understanding of animals, habitats and their environment.
What retention may be demonstrated?
Here are some example questions that may be used to assess children’s understanding.
EYFS: Can you name an animal and where it lives? What animals may live in your garden?
KS1: : What is the difference between a starfish’s habitat and a bird’s habitat? What animals may you find in the desert?
KS2: What type of animals migrate and why? Why would changes to a habitat endanger animals?
Science – Biology – Animals and Habitats – Primary Curriculum
EYFS
Biology – Animals and Habitats – Foundation stage:
To explore habitats and their animals in their immediate environment.
Year 1
Biology – Animals and Habitats – Year 1:
To explore animals and their habitats in the local environment, and ask related questions.
Year 2
Biology – Animals and Habitats – Year 2:
To explore, compare and contrast local and other environments and their animals; to understand how to care for these animals.
Year 3
Biology – Animals and Habitats – Year 3:
To explore a variety of habitats and to begin to use classification to help group and name animals.
Year 4
Biology – Animals and Habitats – Year 4:
To understand that habitats and environments may change and that this can sometimes pose danger to living things.
Year 5
Biology – Animals and Habitats – Year 5:
To understand and ask questions about how the local environment change throughout the yea; to observe a range of life cycles .
Year 6
Biology – Animals and Habitats – Year 6:
To understand different environments and the habitats that they provide by working scientifically, using classification systems and keys to identify the animals and plants that live there.
Mastery
Biology – Animals and Habitats – Mastery:
To have a full understanding of different habitats by working and thinking scientifically.
This collection of short films and resources will help you understand your child’s progression through school.
The curriculum film resource has been broken down by subject area initially and then by topic area.
