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Animal Life Stages
CONCEPTUALRecognise that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults, and describe basic animal life stages
Mastery Evidence
- Describe the basic life stages of a human: baby, child, teenager, adult
- Give examples of other animals and their young (e.g. kitten → cat, chick → hen)
- Explain that offspring grow and change as they develop into adults
Assessment Prompt
“Can [child] describe how a kitten grows into a cat, or how a baby grows into an adult?”
Curriculum Standards3 alignments
1-LS1-2Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) K-5codes onlyStandard code — full text not included in this dataset.
1-LS3-1Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) K-5codes onlyStandard code — full text not included in this dataset.
Y2.Sci.A.1The national curriculum in EnglandOffspring growing into adults
notice that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults
Science · Key Stage 1
Prerequisites3
- What Living Things NeedsoftAges 5—7
- How Animals Have BabiessoftAges 5—7
- Naming Common AnimalshardAges 5—6
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- What Living Things Need soft
Understanding survival needs supports understanding growth and development
- Living Things Vocabulary soft
Describing what plants and animals need to survive uses life processes vocabulary: nutrition, growth, sensitivity
- How Animals Have Babies soft
Animal babies topic enriched by curriculum coverage of offspring and life stages
Unlocks3
- Life Cycles of OrganismshardAges 7—9
- Offspring resemble parentshardAges 6—11
- Human ReproductionhardAges 12—13