A no-prep, 4-lesson science unit on Plants / Animals, including humans (KS1 Year 1: identify and name basic external parts), written for Year 1 (ages 5-6). Phenomenon-first and three-dimensional: every lesson opens with something to wonder about and builds toward the unit’s big question. Open and teach — full teacher plans, projectable slides, three differentiated pupil worksheets per lesson, a complete printable lab pack, a knowledge organiser, and a baseline + end-of-unit assessment.

Big question: How do the parts of plants and animals help them live?

What’s included

• 4 × Teacher lesson plans (Word) on the 5E spine (Engage · Explore · Explain · Elaborate · Evaluate)
• 4 × Pupil worksheets in 3 differentiated tiers (Support / Core / Stretch)
• 4 × Projectable slide decks (PowerPoint, 16:9 widescreen)
• 1 × Full lab pack (Word) — investigation question, fair-test variables, household and lab equipment lists, a real risk assessment, a blank results table, and analysis + conclusion scaffolds
• 1 × Knowledge organiser (Word, A4 landscape)
• 1 × Baseline + end-of-unit assessment with a teacher answer key and three-dimensional items
• Hand-coded diagrams with clear labels for the unit’s key ideas — never AI-generated
• Original illustrations for every phenomenon hook

Lesson outline

1. Naming the parts
2. What does each part do?
3. Parts that keep living things safe
4. Copying nature to solve a problem

Pupils will know

• Plants and animals have outside parts we can name, like legs, beaks, roots and leaves.
• Each part has a job that helps the living thing survive.
• Legs and wings help animals move; beaks and mouths help them eat.
• Roots take in water and hold a plant in place; leaves catch the light.
• People can copy a useful part from nature to solve a problem (biomimicry).