Our top three 'Change and Adapt' units for Science Week 2025
British Science Week 2025 is just around the corner. At Developing Experts, our library of science lessons has everything you need to explore the theme of ‘Change and Adapt’ with your class. Whether you’re teaching KS1, KS2 or KS3, read on to discover our top three unit picks for you to explore this Science Week.
For younger pupils, you could start discussing science week’s theme by touching on examples they’re already familiar with. For example, they’ll know that the weather, seasons and day length change throughout the year. You can find lessons to help you address this topic within our Year 1 Seasonal Changes Unit. Over six lessons, pupils discover what happens during spring, summer, autumn and winter - with a key focus on what changes we can see.
To continue the learning to include adaptations, you could explore how animals adapt to winter. For example, hedgehogs hibernate, swallows migrate and arctic foxes change fur colour.
KS2 pupils will be able to understand and recognise some ways that living things have changed over time. For upper KS2 pupils, you could explore how adaptation leads to evolution. Our Year 6 Evolution and Inheritance unit contains six lessons which directly explore plant adaptations, animal adaptations, fossils and natural selection, making it the perfect choice for science week. Using our lessons, your pupils can investigate how adaptations are linked to survival and environmental influences.
Consider challenging your pupils to conduct their own research and look into other examples. For example, pollution changed the colouration of peppered moths and led to natural selection.
Our KS3 unit Ecosystems and Evolution 2 contains 7 lessons that explore variation between species and how changes in the environment drive natural selection. You can use this unit to explore what happens when a species isn’t able to change and adapt to its environment, linking it to the changes that are arising from climate change. For example, coral reefs bleach when ocean waters warm just 1 to 2 degrees above their normal summer temperatures. What would happen if all the coral reefs became damaged in this way?
With these three units, Developing Experts has got you covered for British Science Week 2025. Don’t forget to join us for our live lesson on Friday the 7th of March - you can find all the details and sign up now by visiting us at www.developingexperts.com.