KS1 Science

The first lesson in this practical series encourages your class to identify a variety of toys and think about the materials they are made from. During a hands-on, practical activity your class will observe, sort, name and describe toys, while beginni... Read More

During this lesson on wooden toys your class will develop their ability to think scientifically when asking and answering questions and to use the appropriate language to describe them. The children will apply their knowledge to find and describe oth... Read More

Explore plastic and the many different forms and purposes it has with your class. Your class will begin by identifying and describing some common toys that have different properties. They will be encouraged to think carefully about why a product’s ... Read More

In the fourth lesson of this series children will identify toys that have been made from metal and consider why the properties of metal make it a suitable material for certain toys. The children will begin to also explore toys that are made from more... Read More

This lesson encourages your class to think about why some materials are more suited to certain purposes than others. They will explore toys that are made from different fabrics and why fabric is a good choice over other materials for certain toys. Yo... Read More

The final lesson in this series gives your class the chance to recap what they have learnt about materials and consolidate their knowledge through some exciting open-ended activities. The lesson begins by asking the children to think about and answer... Read More

The first Identifying Materials Year 1 Science lesson in this series helps your class identify a variety of common materials, including wood, plastic, glass, fabric and stone. They will learn about where the materials come from and start to distingui... Read More

This sorting materials year 1 lesson encourages your class to distinguish between an object and the material it is made from. Your class will have plenty of opportunities to identify materials and objects and they will soon be dab hands at grouping o... Read More

This Properties of Materials lesson for Year 1 will stretch your children's vocabulary muscles as they describe materials according to their properties. Your class will use words such as hard, soft, stretchy, fluffy, rigid and bendy to describe a var... Read More

This lesson encourages your class to think about why some materials are more suited to certain purposes than others. Your children will help some confused people work out which materials they should use for a variety of tasks, based on what they know... Read More

The fifth lesson in this series will see your class conducting waterproof investigations as they work out which material is most suitable for patching up a battered umbrella! Your class will test a variety of materials to see if they are waterproof o... Read More

The final lesson in this series gives your class the chance to consolidate what they have learnt about materials and their properties. As well as checking their understanding through a variety of fun activities, your class can also use what they h... Read More

The first lesson in this series helps your class identify a variety of common pets, including dogs, cats, guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters and fish. They will start to notice animals have different features and use these features to distinguish betw... Read More

This lessons introduces a variety of UK mammals to your class. It explains how to identify mammals, showing clear pictorial examples of their characteristics. Your class will have the opportunity to either name and describe a variety of mammals or... Read More

Now that your class have learnt about pets and mammals they will be introduced to birds and reptiles. At first glance these animals may appear to have nothing in common, but your class will discover they share some characteristics. This lesson ... Read More

This lesson explores the similarities and differences between fish and amphibians. Your class will become familiar with their characteristics and their life cycles, exploring how both fish and amphibians develop from eggs to adults. They will a... Read More

Now that your class are familiar with the different kingdoms of animals they will begin to sort them by what they eat. Your class will be introduced to the terms carnivore, herbivore and omnivore and be encouraged to apply their own knowledge of a... Read More

Taking care of a variety of animals is an important skill to learn. This lesson begins by enlisting your class to help the characters decide which pet they should get. Your class will need to look at the needs of the pet and what each of the ch... Read More

In this final lesson, your class will collect and interpret data about the class' favourite pet or which mini beasts are in their local environment. They will collect the data by asking their classmates or going on a mini beast hunt. They will ... Read More

The first lesson in this Year 1 plants planning series of lessons helps your class identify a variety of common plants and their seeds, including sunflowers, poppies, broad beans and peppers. They will start to notice that plants have different fe... Read More

This garden plants Year 1 lesson introduces a variety of UK garden plants to your class. It explains not all plants have flowers and how to identify a variety of flowering plants and trees. Your class will have the opportunity to either name and desc... Read More

Now that your class have learnt about garden plants they will learn about wild plants. They will be encouraged to think about and describe the characteristics of the plants, including their colour and height. Your class will then identify and compare... Read More

This downloadable deciduous and evergreen trees year 1 science lesson explores the similarities and differences between different trees. Your class will become familiar with scientific terms used to describe tress. They will discover what the terms m... Read More

This parts of a plant Year 1 lesson identifies the main parts of a plant, including the leaves, petals, flowers, roots and stem. Your class will be challenged to find and label the parts on a variety of different plants. Your class will then draw and... Read More

In this final 'Identifying Plants' lesson your class will be able to observe how the plants from lesson one have changed as they explore plant life cycles. They will watch a time lapse video to help them visualise the changes, then they will then exa... Read More

The first lesson in this series gives your class plenty of opportunities to name and identify different parts of their bodies, from the tops of their heads to the tips of their toes and everything in between, all through a variety of fun activities. Read More

This lesson starts with an activity to identify body parts through covered images before looking at which parts of our bodies we use for different activities, such as walking, hopping, reading, and many more. Read More

This lesson introduces your class to the five senses before looking in more detail at the sense of sight. Your class will think about what our sense of sight allows us to do, as well as why it is important for safety. There is also the opportunity to... Read More

After recapping what the five different senses are, your class will explore the sense of touch. They will learn how their whole bodies can experience touch but that it is our hands that are most used to feel objects for a variety of different purpose... Read More

This lesson looks at the sense of smell and encourages your class to think about what we use this important sense for. There is also the opportunity to find out lots of interesting facts about smell and noses, as well as identifying objects by their ... Read More

This delicious lesson explores the sense of taste and encourages your class to think of words that describe a variety of flavours, including sweet, salty, bitter and sour. They can then discuss which flavours they like most and least, as well as tast... Read More

The final lesson in this series starts by recapping the four senses we have discovered already and then goes on to look at the sense of hearing. After exploring why the sense of hearing is important, your children can take a fun sound test to see if ... Read More

The first lesson in this series gets your class thinking about the weather and the clothes we wear. It gives them plenty of opportunities to name the seasons and match appropriate clothes to the weather. Read More

Now that your class know that there are four different seasons in the UK, they can explore the differences between the seasons in greater detail. They will look at written and picture clues to work out the season that is being represented, as well as... Read More

This lesson explores how animal behaviour changes, depending on the season. Your class will look at a year in the life of a robin and a dormouse and explore how each season affects their lives. They will also be introduced to the term hibernate and h... Read More

Now that your class have learnt about how animals adapt to the changing seasons, they will have the opportunity to see if humans also adapt. Your class will have the chance to explore how the seasons affect what we wear, what we do and what we eat, a... Read More

Seasonal day length is a tricky concept for your class to understand so let the two characters introduce it for you! Your class have the opportunity to compare birthdays that take place in different seasons and begin to come to their own conclusions ... Read More

In this final lesson your class will interpret data on clothes worn during each season. They will transfer their data into a pictogram and answer questions on it to gain a better understanding of the differences between the weather in each season. Yo... Read More

The first lesson in this practical series encourages your class to identify a variety of seaside objects and think about the materials they are made from. During a hands-on, practical activity your class will observe, sort, name and describe objects,... Read More

During this active lesson on wooden seaside objects your class will develop their ability to think scientifically when asking and answering questions. They will have the opportunity to practise their investigation skills as they identify mystery obje... Read More

In the third lesson of this series children will identify some common forms of rock as well as thinking about where they have seen it in its natural form. In this hands-on lesson they will look closely at rocks when sorting and describing them, while... Read More

Explore plastic and the many different forms and purposes it has with your class. Your children will begin by identifying and describing some common seaside objects that have different properties. They will be encouraged to think carefully about why ... Read More

Your class will recap what they have learnt about materials and consolidate their knowledge through some exciting open-ended activities. The lesson begins by asking the children to think about and answer questions on the materials they have looked at... Read More

The first lesson in this investigative series gets your class thinking about the different animals they might find living in and around their home. To start with they will focus on the animals found in their living rooms and begin to categorise the a... Read More

The second lesson in this series gets your class thinking in more detail about the different animals they might find living in and around their home. They will explore what different pet animals need and begin to categorise them by what they eat. The... Read More

The third lesson in this series gets your class thinking in more detail about the different animals they might find living in and around a garden lawn. They will begin to think about why the animals might be there as they are introduced to the idea t... Read More

The fourth lesson in this series explores animals found in shaded areas of gardens. Your class will identify different animals and think about why they might be found under trees and in bushes, shrubs and hedges. This hands-on lesson will have your c... Read More

The penultimate lesson in this series explores animals and plants found in and around garden ponds. Your class will identify different animals and plants and begin to think about ponds as a source of food and water for a range of animals including ma... Read More

In the final lesson in this series your class will be challenged to place a variety of animals and plants in the locations they would be most likely to be found. Alternatively they will be challenged to predict where they might find certain animals a... Read More

The first lesson in this series takes a look at some materials that the children will be familiar with, such as wood, glass and plastic, and encourages them to think of vocabulary to describe these materials. They then go on to think of how they c... Read More

This lesson teaches your class the difference between natural and man-made materials, as well as the difference between a raw material (such as wood) and an object that can be made out of a raw material (such as a table). By the end of this lesson... Read More

This fun, tactile lesson encourages your class to think about which materials can be stretched, squashed, bent and twisted, as well as whether the changes made are permanent or temporary. Your class will start by exploring what plasticine feels li... Read More

During this lesson your class will explore objects that are sometimes made from metal and sometimes made from plastic. They will begin to think about the purpose of the object and circumstances when using a particular material is appropriate. Y... Read More

In this lesson your class will discover how wood is made into paper. They will be encouraged to think logically about why we write on paper and not wood, and why wood is generally cut into uniform planks before it is used. You will have the opt... Read More

Now that your class have begun to look at materials scientifically, they will explore in more detail how the material used effects the purpose of an object. They will do this by looking at different objects like a plastic, a metal and a wooden spo... Read More

The final lesson in this series looks at the inventions of Dunlop, Macintosh and McAdam and why their material inventions were so important. Your class will also find out about some modern day material inventions so they realise materials are stil... Read More

The first lesson in this series teaches your class that plants can be grown from seeds. They will look at some common seeds and see if they can identify them. Then your children will begin to think about the important information they would need to k... Read More

During this lesson your class will discover a range of plants that can be grown from bulbs. They will be encouraged to link their knowledge of growing seeds to growing bulbs and talk about what they think the bulbs will need to grow. Your class w... Read More

In this lesson your class will explore how and why seeds are dispersed. They will find out that some seeds are dispersed by wind, some are dispersed by animals and others are dispersed in more explosive ways. Your class will begin to think about ... Read More

This lesson introduces your class to the scientific word 'germination', and what it means. They will begin to think about the conditions that affect seed germination and what plants need to grow. Your children will either set up their own investi... Read More

In the final lesson of this series, your class will think scientifically about how their plants have grown and matured over time. They will watch a time-lapse video showing seeds growing to remind them how their plants have developed. Your class w... Read More

The first lesson in this series teaches your class that all animals, including humans, have babies. It gives them plenty of opportunities to match young animals to their parents and to think about how babies develop into adults over time. Read More

Now that your class know that all animals have babies, they can explore the different ways animals reproduce. They will learn that some animals give birth to live young and some lay eggs, and identify which types of animals reproduce in these ways... Read More

This lesson explores the stages of human development. Your class will think about what they were able to do when they were babies and toddlers, what they can do now as children, and what will happen to them as they grow into teenagers and adults. ... Read More

This lesson teaches your class about the things that all animals, including humans, need to survive, namely food, water and oxygen. They will think about the different ways that various animals get each of these things, including how animals that ... Read More

This interesting lesson looks at environment as a factor in the survival of animals. Your class will think about some of the different habitats various animals live in and why they live where they do. They will also discuss what they think woul... Read More

The human body is an amazing thing! This lesson will teach your class the importance of diet for keeping their bodies healthy. Using the models of the food pyramid and balanced plate, your class will find out which foods they should eat most and l... Read More

After an active start to the lesson, your class will find out how exercise affects the body and the benefits of this, from healthy hearts and lungs to strong muscles. They will also think about different kinds of exercises and sports and the parts... Read More

The first lesson in this series looks at all the processes common to living things and uses these to help identify things that are living, things that are dead and things that have never been alive. Read More

This lesson looks at what a habitat is and what animals and plants need to live in habitats that suit their needs. Your class will identify different familiar habitats, such as forests, ponds and fields, and think about which animals might live in th... Read More

Take a trip to the beach with this lesson, as your class explore a seaside habitat. They will think about which animals and plants they might find there, before exploring how the animals and plants in a seaside habitat are linked together. Read More

This lesson takes your class further afield, as they explore the plants and animals in unfamiliar habitats, including rainforests, deserts and the Arctic. They will also have the chance to explore why each animal is suited to its habitat. Read More

Not all habitats have to be large areas like ponds, deserts or forests. This lesson teaches your class about micro-habitats, such as beneath logs or under rocks, and the mini-beasts that live there. They will find out about different types of inverte... Read More

By now, your class will know that the living things in a habitat are dependent on other living things within their habitat, but this lesson shows them exactly how they are linked through food chains. They will find out about herbivores, carnivores an... Read More