Year 2 Science Lesson Plans
4 free Year 2 Science lesson plans for KS1. Each includes learning objectives, key vocabulary, a timed lesson structure and common misconceptions, and downloads as an editable Word document.
Year 2 science builds confidently on the knowledge and vocabulary established in Year 1. Pupils revisit the three broad strands — living things, materials, and the wider physical world — but with greater depth and complexity. Where Year 1 focused on naming and describing, Year 2 begins to ask questions of cause and effect: why do animals live where they do? What happens when materials are changed? How do plants grow?
Living Things
Pupils explore the concept of habitats and how living things are suited to the places where they live.
Pupils investigate what plants need in order to grow and stay healthy.
Pupils explore how animals, including humans, grow from offspring into adults, and investigate what animals need to survive: food, water, and air.
Year 2 Science through the year
Living Things and Habitats
Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive.
Living Things and Their Habitats lesson plan →Uses of Everyday Materials
Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper, and cardboard for particular uses.
Uses of Everyday Materials lesson plan →Animals Including Humans: Growth and Offspring
Notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults.
Animals Including Humans: Growth and Basic Needs lesson plan →Plants: Seeds and Growth
Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants.
Plants: Seeds, Bulbs, and Growth lesson plan →Everyday Materials: Changing Shape
Find out how the shapes of solid objects made from some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting, and stretching.