Understanding Science is a series of topic-based study books for Key Stage 2, providing rigorous practice of key subject areas. Animals & Plants meets the National Curriculum requirements for Key Stage 2 science, and covers the following areas: plants, plant life cycles, flowers and fertilisation, seed dispersal, germination, asexual reproduction, living things and their habitats, fossils, animal life cycles, food chains, evolution, adaptation and inheritance. This book provides:
- an explanation of the key features that animals and plants share, and highlights some important differences between them
- thought-provoking facts to foster a love of learning beyond the National Curriculum
- a Scientific investigation table to highlight opportunities for pupils to practise working scientifically
- a combined Index and glossary to define key terms introduced in the text
- a complete set of answers at the back of the book.