Year 2 Science: Plants | Lessons 1–5 Bundle | Full Unit Pack

A complete, ready-to-teach unit designed to support the teaching of Plants in Year 2. This bundle includes five fully resourced lessons that cover all key objectives, helping teachers deliver the topic with confidence while reducing planning time.

Across the unit, children build a secure understanding of how plants grow, what they need to survive, and how different conditions affect growth. Lessons are carefully sequenced to develop knowledge step-by-step, with regular opportunities for discussion, practical exploration, and simple scientific reasoning.

Key learning across the unit includes:
Understanding what plants need to grow
Exploring seeds, bulbs and germination
Investigating how conditions affect plant growth
Identifying where plants grow best
Developing ‘Working Scientifically’ skills through observing, predicting, comparing and explaining

Children engage in a range of purposeful activities, including investigations, sequencing tasks, and a “plant detective” lesson where they match plants to the environments they grow best in.

What’s included:
5 full lesson PowerPoints (animated) plus PDF versions
5 detailed, easy-to-follow lesson plans
Differentiated worksheets for every lesson (Start, Build, Challenge)
Practical activity resources (including plant cards and clue cards)
Word banks and cursive sentence starters to support writing
Printable worksheets and supporting materials

Each lesson follows a consistent structure, making the unit easy to teach while supporting all learners. Differentiation is clearly built in, allowing pupils to move from supported tasks to more independent scientific explanation.

This unit also supports writing in science, helping pupils to explain their ideas using sentence structures such as:
“The ___ is important because…”

Perfect for Year 2 and easily adaptable for Year 1 or lower KS2.

Aligned with the KS1 National Curriculum.