Year 3 Science Lesson Plans
4 free Year 3 Science lesson plans for KS2. Each includes learning objectives, key vocabulary, a timed lesson structure and common misconceptions, and downloads as an editable Word document.
Year 3 marks the beginning of Key Stage 2 science, and with it a significant deepening of scientific enquiry. Pupils move from the descriptive and comparative work of KS1 into more systematic investigation: planning fair tests, making predictions, taking repeat measurements, and drawing evidence-based conclusions. The five units across the year span all three science disciplines — biology (plants, animals and nutrition), chemistry (rocks), and physics (light and forces).
Living Things
Year 3 Science through the year
Plants
Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves, and flowers.
Plants lesson plan →Nutrition and Skeletons
Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food.
Nutrition and Skeletons lesson plan →Light and Shadows
Recognise that they need light in order to see things and that dark is the absence of light.
Light and Shadows lesson plan →Rocks and Soils
Compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties.
Rocks and Soils lesson plan →Forces and Magnets
Compare how things move on different surfaces.