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Transfer of energy

Science Year 2
This unit is part of Year 2 Science Gardens and Allotments

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Objectives

Think further about food chains and look at the transfer of energy from the sun, through the members of the food chain, and back into the ground. Can you represent this cycle in a dance?

Science Objectives
i) Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each other.

ii) Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats.

iii) Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.

Working Scientifically

  1. Ask simple questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways
  2. Observe closely, using simple equipment.
  3. Perform simple tests.
  4. Identify and classify.
  5. Use their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions.
  6. Gather and record data to help answer questions.

Lesson Planning

Teaching

  • Be able to describe how some animals obtain their food from plants and other animals.
  • Look more closely at what happens in a food chain. Understand that the sun's energy travels through a food chain and then back into the ground.
  • Interpret the transfer of energy in a food chain through a dance, using masks and torches.

Activities

  1. Understand that the sun's energy travels through a food chain and that this is called a 'transfer of energy'.
  2. Interpret the transfer of energy in a food chain through a dance, using masks and torches.

Investigation - researching and analysing secondary sources
Look more closely at what happens in a food chain. Understand that the sun's energy travels through a food chain and then back into the ground. Interpret the transfer of energy in a food chain through a dance, using masks and torches.

Vocabulary
Habitats, food chain, energy, transfer, predators

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