Year Two

living

dead

never alive

habitats

micro-habitats

food

food chain

sun-grass-cow-human

alive

healthy

logs

leaf

litter

stony path

under bushes

shelter

seashore

woodland

Ocean

Rainforest

Conditions

Hot/warm/cold

Dry/damp/wet

Bright/shade/dark

Year Four

environment

flowering & non-flowering plants animals

vertebrate

environment

Dangers!

vertebrate - fish,

amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals

invertebrates - snails, slugs, worms, spiders, insects

plants - flowering plants (including grasses), non-flowering (including mosses and ferns

human impact -

positive - nature reserves, ecologically planned parks, garden ponds

negative - population, development, litter, deforestation

Year Five

life cycles - mammal, amphibian, insect, bird

life process of reproduction - plants, animals

vegetable garden,

flower boarder,

animal naturalists - David Attenborough

animal behaviourist - Jane Goodall

reproduction -

plants - sexual, asexual animals – sexual

lifecycles around the world - rainforest,

oceans, desert, prehistoric similarities differences

Year Six

micro-organisms

plants

animal

classification

classify animals:

invertebrates - insects, spiders, snails, worms vertebrates - fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals

scientists - Carl Linnaeus