Create a turning wheel that reveals invertebrates drawn from life (Yr3&4) and information about the features of that group (Yr4).

Use an invertebrate key to identify the group/type of creatures found, e.g.

Hunt for invertebrates in their local environment and bring specimens back to the classroom (Yr3&4).

Use an invertebrate key to identify the group and type of creature found.

Collect, observe and draw a range of invertebrate creatures from the local environment.

Vocabulary Plants, animals, similarities, differences, kingdom, classify, classification, flowering plants, trees, mosses, ferns, spores, cones, leaves, flowers, seeds Year 4 - Research 6 plant facts for their page on plants. Year 3 - Research 4 plant facts for their page on plants. Ask yes/no questions to determine which leave is which from a given set – create a key. Learn the difference between mosses, ferns, conifers and flowering plants. Investigation - classifying and identifying, analysing secondary sources Design a popup tree for an eye catching centre piece to your section on plants.

Research plants using non-fiction books and the internet -Yr3 writing 3 fascinating facts and Yr4 finding 5 facts.

Create their own pop-up tree and garden (to be the second double page in their interactive book of living things) (Yr3&4).

Learn that living things can be grouped in different ways according to their feature (Yr3&4).

Use secondary sources to research interesting facts about green plants.

Know living things can be grouped in different ways according to their features.

Vocabulary Life processes, movement, reproduction, sensitivity, nutrition, excretion, respiration, growth, living things, oxygen, energy, waste products, senses, environment Year 4 - Create 7 lift up flaps for MRS NERG and using prompts explain each beneath the flap. Year 3 - Create 7 lift up flaps for MRS NERG, sort and match the 7 life processes.

Investigation - problem solving, classifying and identifying Everyone loves popup books! Your task is to produce one of your own called The World of Living Things. Play an active team game to reinforce the scientific concepts and vocabulary (Yr3&4).Match the name of each life process to a description of it (Yr3) or write a description for each life process (Yr4).Make a double page of lift-up flaps (the first page of a popup book on living things) with one flap for each life process (Yr3&4).Learn about the 7 life processes that characterise living things (Yr3&4).Understand and name the 7 characteristics of living things.Know that plants and animals are categorised as living things, that some things were once alive and others have never been alive.

Life processes and living things ks2