Thematic Knowledge Organiser Year Group: Year 5 Earth and Beyond! Dates: Sep – Oct 2019
PSHE Being me… in my
History
world!
Science solar system, planets, phases, total ,partial, annular, solar, eclipse, orbit, rotate, rotation, sphere, spherical, night, revolve, movement, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, leap year moon, sun
Geography I can identify and describe the significance of the Prime/Greenwich Meridian and time zones including day and night.
time zones, climate zones, day, night, Prime/Greenwich Meridian
Laika, Yuri Gagarin, Albert II, Rocket, Russia, Sputnik 1, Laika, Sputnik 2, Cold War, Space-probe, Luna 2, Vostok 1, Valentina Tereshkova, John F. Kennedy, NASA, Luna 9, Surveyor 1, Neil Armstrong, Eagle, Buzz Aldrin, Apollo 11, Apollo 13, Lunar Rover, Time Peake, Space Race Space Race/Cold War 1947-1991 Chronological understanding I can use dates to order and place events on a timeline I can provide an account of a
I can describe the movement of the Earth,
historical event based on more
and other planets, relative to the Sun in the
than one source
solar system I can describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth I can describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as
Understanding of events, people and changes
approximately spherical bodies
I can give some reasons for
I can explain day and night and the
events
apparent movement of the sun across the sky using the idea of the Earth's rotation
some important historical
Class Novel: ‘Cosmic’ by Frank Cottrell-Boyce