A no-prep, 4-lesson science unit on EYFS Understanding the World / KS1 Year 2 Living things and their habitats (how living things change and care for their environment), written for Year 0 (ages 4-5). Phenomenon-first and three-dimensional: every lesson opens with something to wonder about and builds toward the unit’s big question. Open and teach — full teacher plans, projectable slides, three differentiated pupil worksheets per lesson, a complete printable lab pack, a knowledge organiser, and a baseline + end-of-unit assessment.

Big question: How do living things change the world, and how can we look after it?

What’s included

• 4 × Teacher lesson plans (Word) on the 5E spine (Engage · Explore · Explain · Elaborate · Evaluate)
• 4 × Pupil worksheets in 3 differentiated tiers (Support / Core / Stretch)
• 4 × Projectable slide decks (PowerPoint, 16:9 widescreen)
• 1 × Full lab pack (Word) — investigation question, fair-test variables, household and lab equipment lists, a real risk assessment, a blank results table, and analysis + conclusion scaffolds
• 1 × Knowledge organiser (Word, A4 landscape)
• 1 × Baseline + end-of-unit assessment with a teacher answer key and three-dimensional items
• Hand-coded diagrams with clear labels for the unit’s key ideas — never AI-generated
• Original illustrations for every phenomenon hook

Lesson outline

1. Animals change their world
2. People change the world
3. Ways to look after the Earth
4. Share a way to help

Pupils will know

• Plants and animals can change the place where they live.
• A squirrel buries seeds, a beaver builds a dam, and worms mix the soil.
• People change the world too, by building and using things.
• Some things people do can harm plants, animals, land, water and air.
• We can look after our world by recycling, saving water, and not dropping litter.