Stage 2 Science Unit 4 – Built to Move – PowerPoint Lesson Slides

Teach all 16 lessons of Stage 2 Science Unit 4, Built to Move, with one classroom-ready PowerPoint that puts every resource, question and task on the screen.

Overview

This student-facing PowerPoint covers the complete NSW Department of Education sample unit for Year 3 and Year 4 science: 461 editable slides across 16 lessons, plus 4 consolidation activities. Each lesson follows the unit's structure of Beginning the lesson, Core lesson and Concluding the lesson, so the class always knows where they are and what comes next.

The learning journey takes students from classifying vertebrates and invertebrates, through the ways animals move on land, in water and in the sky, to the human skeleton and muscular system — which bones protect, which bones support, and how muscles work in pairs to pull bones into movement. The final lessons have students build and test working models of a hinge joint and a ball and socket joint, then write and present a scientific explanation of how a joint works.

The 16 lessons cover

• Vertebrates and invertebrates
• Invertebrates with exoskeletons
• Invertebrates without exoskeletons
• Movement on land
• Movement in water
• Movement in the sky
• The human skeleton
• Protective bones
• Supportive bones
• The muscular system
• Flexibility
• Coordinated movement
• Modelling hinge joints
• Modelling ball and socket joints
• Explaining joints
• Multimodal text

Plus four consolidation activities: Build a skeleton, Ingenious invertebrates, Exoskeleton exploration and Created creatures.

Each lesson includes

• Learning intention and success criteria at the start and again on the concluding slide
• Key language cards defining the lesson's vocabulary
• True or false and check-for-understanding prompts with click-to-reveal answers
• The unit's animal cards, invertebrate fact sheets, labelled skeleton diagrams, comparison tables and writing checklists displayed on screen, side by side where students compare them
• Live links to the unit's videos and websites, including BBC Bitesize, eSkeletons and the Build a Skeleton activity, with the exact section to watch shown on every video slide
• Your turn task cards that set out each hands-on investigation and model step by step
• A challenge slide for early finishers
• Optional assessment and reflection prompts

A linked contents page and an INDEX button on every lesson title slide let you jump straight to the lesson you are teaching.

Perfect for

• Stage 2 teachers delivering the NSW Science and Technology Unit 4 sample unit
• Year 3 and Year 4 science lessons on animal classification, skeletons, muscles and joints
• Whole-class explicit teaching on an interactive whiteboard or classroom screen
• Low-prep NSW science programming for the term
• Relief and casual teachers picking up a lesson mid-unit
• Hands-on model making and scientific explanation writing
• Team teaching across a stage with a shared, consistent deck

Please note

• You will need access to the NSW Department of Education Stage 2 Science and Technology Unit 4 lesson materials to teach the unit — this PowerPoint supports their delivery and does not replace the teacher guidance, lesson notes, resource booklet or professional learning provided with the original unit
• Adapted from the NSW Department of Education Stage 2 Science and Technology Unit 4 sample unit under CC BY 4.0, with changes made; it is independently created and not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official publication of the NSW Department of Education or NESA
• Several lessons involve hands-on investigation and model making; the materials used are listed on the slides and are not included
• Linked videos and websites are third-party sites that require an internet connection and may change over time

File details

• PowerPoint (.pptx), 461 slides in 16:9 widescreen format
• Delivered as one file — all 16 lessons, the 4 consolidation activities and a Terms of Use slide together
• Editable, with Poppins fonts embedded so it looks the same on any computer
• 158 click-to-reveal answers and 32 linked videos and websites
• Stage 2 · Years 3–4 · NSW Science and Technology K–6 Syllabus (2024), outcomes ST2-SCI-01 and ST2-DAT-01
• Digital download
• Internet connection required for the linked videos and websites

Every lesson is built and ready to project, so you can spend your planning time on your students rather than your slides.