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Year 2 · Science
Living, dead or never alive
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Focus on identifying things that are living, no longer living or have never been alive. Open support for “Decide Whether Things are Alive, No Longer Living or Never Lived”, then explain the idea in your own words.
Year 2 learners practise identifying things that are living, no longer living or have never been alive.
The activities include Decide Whether Things are Alive, No Longer Living or Never Lived, Distinguish Between Alive, No Longer Alive and Never Alive, Explore the Seven Life Processes to Classify into Dead, Alive or Never Alive, and related practice. The checked support below includes video, teaching, interactive, lesson. Open a resource in its provider's website and choose the format that best helps the learner explain the idea independently.
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Living, no longer living or never alive?
Use supplied evidence and reliable history to classify living, no-longer-living and never-alive examples. Compare life-process clues, preserve uncertainty and practise safe look-only recording with adult guidance; selected skills, not complete topic mastery.
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- Decide Whether Things are Alive, No Longer Living or Never Lived — support from Oak National Academy
- Distinguish Between Alive, No Longer Alive and Never Alive — support from Oak National Academy
- Explore the Seven Life Processes to Classify into Dead, Alive or Never Alive — support from Oak National Academy
- Group Living Things By Their Characteristics — support from Oak National Academy
- Classify things as living, dead or never alive — support from Oak National Academy
- Understand the Characteristics of Living Things — support from Oak National Academy
- Understand Whether Something is Alive or Not Alive — support from Oak National Academy
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Alive Dead And Never Alive
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Living Or Non Living
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Alive Dead And Never Alive lesson slides
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Science: Living Things and Their Habitats: Is It Alive? Year 2 Lesson 1
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