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Year 2

New life

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  • BQ02 Biology: How do living things grow and reproduce?
  • BQ05 Biology: How do living things stay healthy?

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This unit explores how animals, including humans, have offspring that grow into adults and examines their basic survival needs, such as water, food, and air. It focuses on asking questions, observing closely, identifying and classifying, and using observations to suggest answers to questions.

This unit builds on pupils' prior learning from Naming and grouping animals, where they learned to classify animals based on characteristics. In New life, pupils will explore how animals, including humans, have offspring that grow into adults. This prepares them for the next unit, Reproduction and life cycles: animals, where they will deepen their understanding by learning about the life cycles of various animals and the stages of growth and reproduction across different species.

  1. Young animals
  2. Growing up
  3. Animal life cycles
  4. Changes in animal life cycles
  5. The basic needs of animals

  • Explore the natural world around them, making observations of common animals
  • Notice some similarities and differences between different animals
  • Begin to understand the need to respect and care for all living things
  • Know that some animals have babies
  • Know that baby animals grow and change over time
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