Winter
This science scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to identify, observe and record some of changes to the natural world during the winter season including changes to daylight hours, temperature and animal habitats. The class can keep a record of what is happening to the daily weather during the winter season.
Identify, observe and record some of changes to the natural world during the winter season including changes to daylight hours, temperature and animal habitats
Lesson One : Summer or Winter
Identify, describe and compare typical weather patterns that can be experienced between different seasons during the year
Lesson Two : Snow and Ice
Identify, describe and compare some of the special common weather patterns that can be experienced during the winter season
Lesson Three : Daylight
Identify, record and compare how the amount of daylight and nighttime can change between the summer and winter seasons of the year
Lesson Four : Winter Birds
Name, describe and compare some common British birds that might visit a family garden or school grounds and describe ways to care for them during winter
Lesson Five : Temperature
Explore and test some of the changes that can happen to water resulting from cold weather that can be experienced during the winter
Lesson Six : Winter Weather
Observe, describe and keep a record of some of the changes that are occurring in the weather during the winter season
Winter Assessment
Assess abilities in identifying, observing and recording changes to the natural world that can occur during the winter season
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Sporting Poems
Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games
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Food and Drink
Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals
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Sea Animals
Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach
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Number Bonds to Twenty
Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty