Trips:
Science museum
Trip to the local park
Wetlands Centre
Gunnersbury Triangle
Secondary school science trip
Kew Gardens
The Southfield Scientist
Skills:
● Recognises scientific questions that do not yet have definitive answers.
Enrichment experiences:
Science week
Science visitors/speaker
Visitors from different science
careers (including parents)
Forest school
Science lunch time club
Wildlife area
Pond dipping
● Selects methods to use to solve problems or answer questions, including a full range of enquiry methods, which are planned in detail.
● Explains why particular pieces of equipment or information sources will provide better quality evidence.
● Repeats sets of observations or measurements, where appropriate, selecting suitable ranges and intervals, to give sufficient depth of evidence.
● Decides on the most appropriate formats to present sets of scientific data, such as using line graphs for continuous variables.
● Communicates findings in written form, across a range of genre, and uses multi-media and other forms of presentations.
● Uses scientific evidence to answer questions to support findings.
● Draws valid conclusions that utilise more than one piece of supporting evidence.
● Provides explanations for differences in repeated observations or measurements, identifying reasons for any anomalies noticed.
● Evaluate the effectiveness of their working methods, making practical suggestions for improving them.
● Can take measurements, using a range of scientific equipment with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate (must use data loggers).
Knowledge:
● Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics andbased on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals.
● Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood.
● Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function.
● Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans.
● recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical totheir parents
● identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation maylead to evolution
● use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye
● explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects andthen to our eyes
● use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them
● compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudnessof buzzers and the on/off position of switches
● use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram
Reception:
Head, shoulders, arms, knees, hands, feet, ankles, wrists, elbows, knuckles, fingers, fingernails, ears, eyes, nose, scientists Bones, muscles, skin, brains, skulls, sensory, physical, impairment, deaf, blind. baby, toddler, young child, older child, teenager, adult, elderly person, past, present, future. Mother, mum, father, dad, sister, brother, cousin, aunt, uncle, grandmother, grandfather, stepmother (mum), step father (dad), step brother, step sister Spring, summer, autumn, winter, temperature, warmer, cooler, sun, rain, snow, wind Autumn, cooler, darker, deciduous, evergreen, brown,
Year 1:
Hearing, touch, taste, smell, sight Recap from
EYFS: Head, neck, skull
Face, ears, eyes, nose, mouth, hair teeth Arms, legs, elbows, knees, fingers, toes, feet, hands eye, iris, eyelid, eyelash, pupil, vision, reflection, glasses, contact lenses, telescope, microscope.
Ear, eardrum, deaf, hearing aid, vibration, sound, wave touch, taste, smell, skin, tongue, taste, buds, nose, scent, sweet, salt, bitter, sour Helen Keller, deaf, blind, illness, speak, read, write, courage, perseverance, resilience Birds Fish salmon, tuna, mackerel Amphibians toad, salamander, newt Reptiles
Mammals human
Invertebrates: underwater air amphibian mammal teeth (incisors, canine, molars), sharp, carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, diet suitable pets domestic wild tame food space
shelter medicine water care responsibility scientific describe Fish: gills, fins, scales Birds: beaks, wings, claws, feathers season seasonal
Year 2:
Survive Scarce
Offspring Drought
Pollution skeleton
bones skull backbone
rib finger bone hip
bone toe bone kneecap
muscle organs protect
joint digestion stomach
oesophagus small
intestine large intestine
mouth tongue chew
blood energy waste process
circulate circulation
blood cells heart lungs
veins arteries oxygen pump germs exercise
balanced diet healthy rest bacteria wash
medicine injection alive dead inanimate
breathe move
reproduce eat habitat
microhabitat animals: beetle, fox, squirrel, owl, badger, robin, hedgehog, camel, scorpion, cobra, horned lizard, rattlesnake, ostrich plants: fern, moss, oak tree, cacti, tumbleweed rainforest
tropical desert Sahara
Desert Gobi Desert camels cacti survive
adapt underground
badger fox mole worm
adapt damp tunnel
Vocabulary
Year 3:
voluntary involuntary
bicep intestine heart
control contract relax
independent
endoskeleton femur
stirrup skull cranium
ligaments joint spinal
column ribs scapula
pelvis cerebrum
cerebellum medulla
nerves cerebral cortex
spinal cord salivary
glands taste buds teeth: incisors, canines, premolars, molars digest process break down
nutrition saliva oesophagus stomach
small intestine large
intestine rectum anus
digestive juices glands
Spring, Summer Autumn
Winter cycle seasons
Earth orbit axis sun tilt
planet Northern Hemisphere sprout, roots, deciduous, evergreen, nutrients, branches, sap, energy, ripen, mature, decay, dormant (from the French word dormir
meaning to sleep) root stem/trunk leaves flower
pollen anther ovule
reproduce germination
bulb seed fruit shoot
seed dispersal hibernate
Year 4:
cell Organs Tissue
System Nutrition Food
groups incisor canine
premolar molar
omnivore enamel
oesophagus stomach
small intestine large
intestine appendix Fats
Carbohydrates Proteins
Vegetables and fruit
vitamin minerals iron
calcium magnesium
zinc living things
classification sorting vertebrates
invertebrates backbone
internal skeleton cold-
blooded warm-blooded
gills amphibians lungs
scales reptiles birds
mammals scales lungs
hatch invertebrate
arachnid mollusc
insects abdomen thorax
Botanist non-flowering
flowering seeds flowers
reproduce photosynthesis fern
moss fungi algae living
thing habitat
microhabitat polar
rainforest desert
producer consumer
decomposer cycle living
thing energy organisms
ecosystem organism
web living things exotic
native pollution plastic
Year 5:
growth gestation puberty
old age adolescence
hormones puberty Ageing
lifespan metabolism
Weaned Growth stage Life
expectancy property
material transparent
opaque shiny dull
conductor insulator hard
soluble insoluble strong
flexible thermal conductor
insulator fair control
temperature thermometer
stopwatch mixture
dissolve solution solvent
solute solubility mixture
dissolve separate sieve
filter magnet solution
evaporate reversible
irreversible cycle birth
growth reproduction
death interconnection
mammal amphibian
metamorphosis mature
hibernation incubate
larvae gamete fertilisation
embryo seed germinate
sepals stamens anther
pistil ovary pollination
pollen naturalist primate
biography force push pull
increase decrease gravity
friction air resistance
water resistance
streamline parachute
upthrust Float buoyancy
surface area air resistance
gravity force time speed
Year 6:
atrium (atria) ventricle(s) valves aorta pulmonary
circuit systemic circuit
blood vessels arteries veins
capillaries blood pressure
heart rate pulse oxygen
exercise Drugs fair test investigation predictions variables independent dependent control affect result conclusion
Components red blood cells white blood cells
haemoglobin platelets
plasma classification taxon
organism plants animals protist fungi bacteria cell
plant animal cell
membrane cytoplasm
nucleus vacuole
mitochondria cell wall
chloroplast chlorophyll
taxonomy kingdom
phylum (phyla) class order
family genus (genera)
species vertebrates fish
amphibians reptiles birds
mammals cold-blooded
warm-blooded Vertebrate
Invertebrate Arachnid
Mollusc Insect Cnidarian
Arthropod Annelid
electricity circuit electrical
current components
energy insulator conductor
volts voltage cell battery
Electrical Engineer Switch
gold, yellow, red, dark, light, dry
Earth, planet, land, ocean, gravity, sun, daylight, night time, orbit
Astronomer, telescope, Galileo, Caroline Herschel, comets, stars, planets Rocket, shuttle, astronaut, space suit, space boots, helmet, gravity, oxygen.
Tim Peake, International Space Station, scientists, telescopes, gravity
The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
Rocky planet, gas giant, ice giant. Stars, galaxy, solar system, distance
Constellation, shapes, formation, stars, Great Bear, Hercules, Pegasus, Leo Moon landing, astronaut, Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11, crater, surface Rover,
Perseverance, signs of life, research
spring summer autumn winter wind rain sun snow
axis orbit tilt rain gauge
wind vane thermometer
tools measure observe
record precipitation graph measure information record data rainfall
accurate cirrus (curl)
stratus (layers) cumulus
(pile) cloud droplet float
dark fluffy storm forecast predict future scientist
meteorologist prepare extreme danger flood
hurricane Hurricane Katrina care Earth world
resources natural logging
flooding pollution Natural Manufactures Resources
Renewable Non-renewable
logging deforestation construction extinction
erosion flooding recycle
Pollution Contamination
Chemicals Air Water Land
Rubbish Waste fumes
conservation recycle materials old new purpose
Plants warmth light grow
water germinate seeds
healthy Roots anchor absorb stem leaves flower
reproduce disperse survive
gravity rely pepper pot
evergreen deciduous
Autumn Spring annual oak
fir roots stem leaves
flower poisonous variety
diet nutrients everyday
burrow food energy
producer consumer
food chain food energy
producer consumer
food chain electricity
energy appliance mains
battery store useful
dangerous safety
caution danger electric
shock frayed plug
socket wire circuit
electricity flow battery
wire bulb buzzer
current conduct
insulate pass through
plastic wood wire
rubber ash tree aspen
tree silver birch oak
tree sweet chestnut
tree daisy bramble ivy
cow parsley seed bulb
germinate sprout tulip
onion daffodil
comparative test cress
observe record predict
crops pests harvest
package transport
Materials Properties
Purpose Soft Hard
Shiny Dull Opaque
Transparent Strong
Flimsy Engineer
Inventor scientists
magnify microscope
solid liquid shape
atoms solid liquid
shape container pour
bonds atoms planet
Mercury Venus Earth
Mars Jupiter Saturn
migrate South/North
tadpoles frogspawn
reproduce mature
metamorphosis light dark
source transparent
Opaque transmit reflect
absorb translucent plane
concave convex shadow
predict record observe
investigate measure
conclude botanist
function feature Agnes
Arber Joseph Banks
thrive wilt hydrangea
sunflower cactus (cacti)
absorb roots stem
transport pollen
pollination pollinator
reproduce seed anther
stigma germination
pollination disperse
dandelion sycamore
acorns poppies Rock
mineral Hard Soft
Smooth Crumbly
Observation geologist
sediment layers
sedimentary
metamorphic pressure
earth’s crust igneous
volcano magma lava
Permeable
impermeable fossil
fossilised Palaeontologist
buried sediment Soil
Decay Organic Matter
sandy chalky clay force
push pull contact force
gravity magnetism Force
friction heat reduce
man made emissions
smog filter chemicals
inset relevant
vocabulary vibration
soundwaves matter
gases liquids solids
sound sound barrier
speed of sound
concorde medium
supersonic volume loud
quiet pitch high low
vocal cord voice box
vibrate vibrations pitch
larynx cartilage
vibration ear canal ear
drum ear bones
hammer anvil stirrup
cochlea auditory nerves
solid liquid gas water
Steam Water vapour
humidity evaporate
water vapour liquid gas
Condenses Vapour
Droplets Gas Liquid
Precipitation
Condensation Gravity
Stratus Cumulus Cirrus
Cumulonimbus
Nimbostratus Rain
Snow Hail Sleet
collection Groundwater
reservoir Water source
useful dangerous
safety caution danger
electric shock frayed
plug socket wire
circuit electricity
electrician flow
scientific enquiry fair test
dependent variable
independent variable
control variable record
results data lever pulley
gear fulcrum pivot
Astronomy Theorise Big
Bang Universe Matter
Galaxy Space Light Year
gravity force mass matter
black hole orbit Solar
System Mercury Venus
Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn
Uranus Neptune Pluto
Ceres Terrestrial Jovian
Satellite moon Waning
Waxing Crescent Gibbous
Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin
Milky Way Proxima
Centauri Andromeda
galaxy cluster supercluster
Laniakea meteorology
atmosphere troposphere
stratosphere mesosphere
thermosphere exosphere
ozone ozone layer
depletion stratosphere
ultraviolet radiation
Montreal Protocol air mass
maritime climate arctic
maritime polar continental
polar maritime returning
polar maritime tropical
continental tropical
maritime anemometer air
mass synoptic chart warm
Front cold Front boundary
cumulonimbus ice crystals
Complete circuit
Incomplete circuit kill
switch design problem
solve components purpose
illumination artificial
source
optic nerve cornea iris
pupil lens muscles retina
brain hypothesis shadow
measure record prism
refract white light rainbow
periscope reflect mirror
45° angle reproduce
asexual cell division
cloning regeneration
gamete fertilisation
embryo seed germinate
sepals stamens anther
pistil ovary pollination
pollen Dispersal Symbiotic
Exocarp Mesocarp
Endocarp sexual
reproduction sperm ovary
fertilisation zygote embryo
foetus development birth
reproduction life cycle
prehistoric sedimentary
rock fossil organism
palaeontologist Offspring
Inheritance variation
mutation DNA Adapt
Adaptation Biomes habitat
evolution adapt adaptation
biomes habitat evolution
independent variable
dependent variable species
Evolution Anthropology
naturalist extinct placental
battery wire bulb
Switch Component
electrical charge thunder
lightning
Mammal marsupial
mammals
Deciduous, evergreen, spring, summer, autumn, winter, leaves
Change, grow, caterpillar, cocoon, transform, butterfly, (metamorphosis)
material wood plastic glass metal rock soft/hard dark/bright transparent/ opaque rough/smooth waterproof/ absorbent thick/thin bendy/stiff shiny/dull purpose select properties suited use magnet attract repel force invisible plan investigate predict record conclusion
Uranus Neptune Pluto (dwarf planet) solar
system planet orbit sun
rotate day night axis
seasons moon orbit
rotate waxing waning
new moon crescent
constellation star
pattern The Great Bear
Plough Orion
Perseverance Robot
Mission Space
Exploration Astronaut
Rover
increase force magnetism magnet metal
iron lodestone north south attract repel push pull pole magnetic field
Magnetic force Strong
Weak
Filament conduct insulate pass through plastic wood wire rubber
Reception:
It starts with a seed
All about plants
The very hungry caterpillar
Oliver’s vegetables
Think Big!
Caroline’s Comets
Year 1:
I Hear a Pickle
The Pet
Tree: Seasons Come, Seasons Go
The Building Boy
Year 2:
See Inside Your Body
Above and Below
Why should I save energy?
Story Based Curriculum
Year 3:
When Darwin Sailed the Sea
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver
Human Body Detectives –the lucky escape
First female Doctors –
Elizabeth Blackwell and Elizabeth Garret Anderson
Year 4:
The rhythm of the rain
How your body works
The shocking story of electricity
It starts with a seed Sound
The picture – Living Habitats
Year 5:
How Your Body Works
The Element in the Room
The Big Picture: Living Habitats
Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover
Looking Up: An Illustrated Guide to Telescopes
Blow, Wind, Blow!
Year 6:
Carolus Linnaeus –
Biography
The First Heart Transplant
Charles Darwin –
biography
Being colour blind - video
Reception:
Forest schoolScience week
Learning about waste andthe environment (recycling)
Visitors from different science careers (includingparents)
Year 1: Forest schoolScience week
Trip to the local area
Learning about waste andthe environment (recycling)
Visitors from different science careers (including parents)
Enrichment experiences
Year 2:
Forest schoolScience week
Trip to the local area
Visitors from different science careers (including parents)
Year 3:
Forest schoolScience week
Science
visitors/speaker
Environmental learning Science museum
Visitors from different science careers (including parents)
Year 4:
Forest schoolScience week
Science
visitors/speaker
Environmental learning Science museum
Visitors from different science careers (includingparents)
Year 5:
Forest school
Science week
Science
visitors/speaker
Environmental earning Science museum
Visitors from different science careers (including parents)
Year 6:
Forest school
Science week
Science visitors/speaker
Environmental learning
Science museum
Visitors from different science careers (including parents)
Reception:
Early Learning Goals: four seasons on earth; spring, summer, autumn and winter
Plants need water and light to grow
Living things, such as plants, grow and change throughout the year.
Animals grow and change
We live on Earth
Year 1:
Naming parts of the body, the five senses and associated body parts, understanding sensory impairment.
Living things, naming animals, grouping animals, describing animals, how plants and animals obtain food, offspring, caring for animal babies, caring for pets.
Year 2:
The skeletal and muscular systems, exercise, digestive system and healthy eating, circulatory system, preventing illness, germs and disease, animals and their offspring.
Habitats: rainforest, desert, meadow and underground habitats. Food chains, oceans and undersea habitats, deep ocean habitats and habitat destruction
Knowledge
Year 3:
The digestive system, teeth and senses, a healthy diet, nutrition, vitamins and minerals, skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement.
Seasonal cycles and plants, animal migration. Life cycles of a plant and a frog. How light travels, shadows, transparent and opaque objects, reflection, mirrors: plane, concave, convex, how shadows change throughout the day. Functions of plants:
Year 4:
The muscular system, the skeletal system, the nervous system, the digestive system, teeth.
Cold-blooded or warm blooded, vertebrates or invertebrates, characteristics of animal classes, classification of plants.
Habitats, interdependence of organisms and their environment, producers, consumers and decomposers, food webs, producers, predators and prey, human threats to the environment. How sound is created,
Year 5:
Human growth stages, adolescence and puberty, The human reproductive system, The endocrine system.
Properties- solubility, conductivity, flexibility, fair testing, solubility, separation of mixtures, reversible changes dissolving, mixing, change of state.
Life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird, life process of reproduction in some plants and animals, Photosynthesis, vascular and non-vascular plants.
Year 6:
The circulatory system, the heart, the blood vessels, the blood, blood pressure and heart rate, changes to humans as we get older
Classifying organisms, plant and animal cells, fungi, protists, monera, taxonomy, Latin names, vertebrates. Brightness, buzzers, voltage, switches, simple circuits and symbols How light travels,
People have been looking into space and asking questions for many years
People who travel into space are called astronauts
Astronauts live and work on the International Space Station
There are planets in our solar system
The stars we see in the sky are very far away
Astronauts have walked on the moon
The Mars Rover is a robot that is exploring Mars
My body has many different parts
The four seasons, tools to record the weather, daily weather and weather forecasts, weather symbols, weather around the world, floods and hurricanes
The Earth’s natural resources, conservation of natural resources, logging, recycling, how pollution is caused and can be prevented. What plants need to grow, the parts and functions of plants, food production, flowers and seeds, deciduous and evergreen.
Classification of materials, magnets, magnetic attraction and damage. Circuits, conductive and non-conductive materials, safety rules.
Seeds and bulbs, plants and water, light, temperature, healthy plants.
Comparing materials, changing materials, concepts of atoms, matter, solids, liquids, gases, measurements. Our solar system, orbit and rotation, sun, moon, planets, stars, constellations.
roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers, Life and growth, variety of plants, water transportation, seed formation and dispersal.
Sorting rocks, how rocks are formed, hardness and permeability, fossils, soil.
Forces, friction, magnets, magnetic poles, magnetic fields, law of magnetic attraction, compasses.
how sound travels, sound waves, speed of sound, pitch, intensity, the human voice, hearing, the human ear.
Change of state, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, humidity, groundwater Electric current, circuits, switches, conductors and insulators.
Gravity, friction, air resistance, water resistance, pulleys, gears and levers.
The Big Bang theory, gravity, the Universe, our Solar System, the moon and our galactic neighbourhood.
Weather and climate, the atmosphere, the Ozone layer, air movement and wind direction, cold and warm fronts, thunder and lightning.
Our eyes, light sources, shadows, periscopes
Asexual reproduction, sexual reproduction in nonflowering and flowering plants, pollination, fertilisation, reproduction in animals, growth stages.
Fossils, adaptation, characteristics passing through generations, Mary Anning, Alfred Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s sketches of finches.
Skills
Reception: 40-60:
Looks closely at similarities, differences, patterns and change Early Learning Goal: They make observations of animals and plants and explain why some things occur, and talk about changes.
Year 1:
Asking simple questions
Observing closely, usingsimple equipment
Performing simple tests
Identifying and classifying
Gathering and recording data to help in answering question –for example diagrams with labels and recording observations
Year 2:
Asking simple questions and recognising that they can be answered in different ways
Observing closely, usingsimple equipment and using equipment safely and independently
Performing simple tests Identifying and classifying Using their observationsand ideas to suggest answers to questions
Gathering and recording data to help in answeringquestionfor example using prepared tables to record data, recording observations and makingcomparisons.
Year 3:
Can set up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests.
Can make observations and take accurate measurements using standard units and equipment, including thermometers and data loggers.
Can record findings using simple scientific language.
Can record findings using drawings, diagrams and tables.
Can report on findings from enquiries, including oral and written explanations. Can use straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or to support their findings
Year 4:
Can ask relevant questions and using different types ofscientific enquiries to answer them.
Can set up simple practical enquiries, comparative and fair tests.
Can make systematic and careful observations and take accurate measurements using standard units and a rangeof equipment, including thermometers and data loggers.
Can gather, record, classifyand present data to help inanswering questions.
Can record findings using simple scientific language, bar charts, tables and keys.
Can use results to draw simple conclusions, make predictions for new values,suggest improvements andraise further questions.
Can identify differences, similarities or changes related to simple scientificideas.
Year 5:
Can plan different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions
Can take measurements, using a range of scientific equipment including dataloggers.
Can record data and resultsof increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, tables and line graphs.
Can use test results to makepredictions.
Can report and present findings from enquiries, including conclusions, explanations in oral and written presentations
Year 6:
Can explore the work of scientists and scientific research about their learning
Can observe and raise questions about local findings and compare them to the wider world
Can carry out an investigation including making predictions, mapping results and forming conclusions based on findings