How to teach Year 2 Science: a guide

Our interactive science platform provides over 700 lessons for children, age 4-14. Today, we are exploring how we teach Year 2 science and best practice in teaching Year 2. In this blog, discover how we help your Year 2 learner develop their science knowledge and skills.

KS1 national curriculum science Year 2:

Give learners the best possible advantage as they move towards KS2 wi th our Year 2 homeschool science learning platform.  With over 70 captivating science lessons for ages 6 to 7, take the journey with us towards scientific discovery.

Give students a spark by learning about the life of Thomas Edison; or strengthen their knowledge of the muscles in our bodies; or let them loose to dive into the ocean with our lessons on marine life.  With much more to discover, our year 2 science lessons will help children explore and wonder at the world around them.

Year 2 science lesson plans:

Give yourself a stronger work/life balance and allow us to plan your curriculum for you.  Have the assurance that all our lessons are planned by experienced teachers and are fully mapped against the national curriculum.  Use our course builder function  to create your own bespoke year 2 science course from our myriad of lessons and enjoy seeing your learner/s make progress as they navigate through their learning journey.

Fun experiments, quizzes and worksheets for KS1 science:

Our enjoyable experiments and activities offer you a wide scope of different scientific investigations to carry out with your children and tutees.  Follow our year 2 mission assignment films and learn how to make your own planets mobile; twist, squash and bend materials to understand their properties, and engage the senses by smelling and tasting different foods.

After engaging their curiosity with our slideshow, learners can record their results on our child-friendly worksheets and test their progress with our online science quizzes, available in each and every lesson.

Science revision for Year 2:

Recall, review and upgrade learning by using our platform as a key science revision resource.  All our activities can help your child revise, and encompass key skills such as literacy, numeracy, debating and modelling.

Want to know more?

We’re giving you a free 14 day trial of Developing Experts so that you can explore our Year 2 learning content, as well as the rest of our 700+ lessons! During your free trial, you’ll have access to all of our teaching and learning content. From expert videos to printable science worksheets, Developing Experts provides you with a complete science teaching resource for your Year 2 students. 

Start your free 14 day trial here. 

In the following weeks, we will be giving you an insight into how we teach science from year 1, right through to KS3 on the Developing Experts blog.

Read all about how we teach Year 3 science here. 

Read all about how we teach Year 4 science here. 

Read all about how we teach Year 5 science here. 

Read all about how we teach Year 6 science here.