Key Stage 1

Through this unit children learn about their senses and how they can use them to explore the world around them. They also learn that humans and other animals move and grow. Experimental and investigative work focuses on:

• exploring and using senses.
• observing and describing living things, and communicating what happened in their work.

Within this unit there are opportunities for children to consider how to treat each other and other living things with care and sensitivity.


This unit takes approximately 9 hours.

• secondary sources showing young and adult animals
• collection of photographs showing the same people as they get older
• video/CD-ROM showing animals moving
• tape of familiar sounds
• objects and magnifying glass/lens
• collection of things that smell, feely bags, selection of crisps
• modelling materials eg playdough, plasticine