Exploring living things and habitats
Explore the needs and features of living things and how habitats provide resources. Review the broad bank for your year group.
- Connect features, needs and habitats using evidence.
One screen. The whole class.
Science classroom games · Year 3 · England
Explore science for Year 3: Exploring living things and habitats, Light and shadows. See learning goals and a suggested sequence; start with any available activity.
Ready-to-teach learning paths
Light and shadows
Light and shadows: Seeing needs light → Reflection and safety → Shadows appear → Changing a shadow.
- Distinguish sources from reflectors and explain darkness.
- Recognise reflected light and safe ways to study sunlight without looking at the Sun.
- Explain shadows where opaque objects block light.
England · 7–11 yearsHabitat explorersDiscover living things and the places they call home.
England · 7–8 yearsSeeing needs lightSort light evidence, distinguish sources from reflectors and explain darkness.
England · 7–8 yearsReflection and safetyExplain reflected light and choose safe ways to investigate it.
England · 7–8 yearsShadows appearUse material-test evidence to explain where light is blocked.
England · 7–8 yearsChanging a shadowExplore a torch model, arrange evidence and decide what makes a fair test.