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Living things

Explore the fascinating world of living things and how they’ve evolved over time! Our primary lessons and resources dive into the wonders of Natural Selection and Survival of the Fittest, showing how species adapt to their environments. Discover the unique adaptations in birds’ beaks, learn to create classification keys, and gain a deeper understanding of the Animal and Plant Kingdoms. Perfect for young learners, these engaging materials make science fun, hands-on, and easy to understand, while inspiring curiosity about the world around us!

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Expertly crafted lesson plans and ideas covering all aspects of living things. Quick Teach provides everything you need for this popular primary science topic, including the animal kingdom, plant kingdom, theory of evolution, inheritance and variation.

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Explore fascinating videos, investigations, knowledge organisers, information sheets and much more to help you teach children about all living things in the world around us and how these have changed over time.

Our Living Things lessons & resources cover:

Year 4

Types of classification
Taxonomy
Understanding and creating classification keys
Animal kingdom
Plant kingdom
Classifying new discoveries
Working scientifically – Identifying and classifying, Pattern seeking, Research

Year 6

Five kingdoms, microorganisms and viruses
Classifying fossils
Theory of evolution and evolutionary tree diagrams
Inheritance and variation – continuous and discontinuous variation
Natural selection and survival of the fittest
Adaptations in birds’ beaks
Adaptations in plants
Artificial selection
Testable hypothesis
Working scientifically – Identifying and classifying, Comparative test, Pattern seeking, Research

Year 4

Year 6

KS2

Age 8–9

Age 10–11

Science

Investigations

Diagrams

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