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HUMANS AND OTHER LIVING THINGS (BIOLOGY)

1 HUMANS

1a. Can you talk about your body?

1b. What are the main parts of the body and how can we look after it?

1c. Why do humans and other animals have muscles and skeletons?

1d. What happens to our bodies as we get older?

1e. How important is our heart and circulatory system?

body parts including elbows

shoulders

wrists

ankles.

smell

touch

taste

See

 hear

texture

taste

compare

sweet

salty

sour

describe

hygiene

nutritious

balanced diet

healthy

unhealthy

diet

skull, spine, rib cage

femur, pelvis

vertebrate

invertebrate

endo/exo skeleton skeleton

bones

joint

muscle

contract

relax

Growth

teenager

life expectancy

gestation

sexual/asexual reproduction

foetus

fertilisation

Substance

blood vessels circulatory

heart

arteries

veins

ventricle

atrium

2 OTHER LIVING CREATURES

2a. What animals do you know and where do they live?

2b. How can living creatures be classified?

2c. Where do different animals live and what do they need to survive?

2d. Can you use keys to classify living things and explore their environmental needs?

2e. Can you classify living things into groups according to observable characteristics?

animals, homes, food, care, big, small, pet, wild

carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, amphibian, reptile, mammal, fish, bird, alive, not alive, human, animal, similar, difference

survival, camouflage, adapt, shelter, food chain, habitat, life cycle, forest, desert, mountains, ocean, fresh water, explore

classify, environment, human impact (positive/negative), vertebrate, invertebrate,

metamorphosis, reproduction, life cycle, hatch, dependent, independent

micro-organisms, classification, invertebrates, vertebrates, fungi, genus, phylum, Linnaean

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3 PLANTS

3a. Can you look closely at plants and talk about them?

3b. What do plants need to live and grow?

3c. Can you explain the function of different parts of a plant?

3d. How do plants

3e. Can you classify plants and explain

leaf, flower, petal, oak, willow

fruit, earth, soil, seeds, shoot, deciduous, evergreen, petals, stem, leaves, root

bulbs, reproduce, produce new plants, growth, light, temperature, notice, describe, compare

pollination, stem, stamen, stem, petals,

pollination, stamen, stigma, sepal, ovary, pollen, petal, style, germinate, fertilise, disperse,

berries, fruits, thorns, trumpet, daffodil, bluebell, holly, iris, grasses, rose, thistle, dandelion, nettles, clover

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4a. How do living things evolve and change over generations?

4 EVOLUTION AND INHERITANCE

adaptation, variation, traits, genes, DNA, inheritance

CHEMISTRY

5a. Can you talk about what things are made of?

5b. Can you name and describe a variety of materials?

5c. Can you categorise and describe different rocks and soils?

5d. How can you compare materials based on their properties?

5 MATERIALS AND THEIR PROPERTIES

plastic, metal, wood, glass, magnetic, hard, soft

plastic, metal, wood, glass, clay, rock, fabric, sand, physical properties, stretchy/stiff, rough/smooth, shiny/dull, bendy

waterproof, absorbent, strong, weak, magnetic, transparent, sort, group, explore, suggest

igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic, natural resource, slate, granite, sandstone, chalk, limestone, clay, marble, quartz

separate, filter, sieve, hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity

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6a. How do materials change shape and form?

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6b. How do you categorise materials according to their state of matter?

6c. How do some materials change state?

6 CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL CHANGES

ice, melt, freeze, cold, hard, smooth

Squash, twist, roll, soft, change

solid, liquid, gas, temperature, air, oxygen, carbon dioxide,

solution, irreversible, solubility, evaporation, solidify, condense, changing state, melt, freeze, dissolve, reversible, insoluble,

PHYSICS

7a. What is it like outside is spring, summer, autumn, and winter?

7b. Can you explain the changes between the four seasons?

7 SEASONAL CHANGES

spring, summer, autumn, winter, hot, cold

seasons, weather, day length, changes, describe

8a. Can you explore how things move through play?

8b. What makes objects move or change speed, or change direction?

8c. Can you explain how a variety of forces affect how an object moves?

8d. How do different forces affect our everyday lives?

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8 FORCES – HOW THINGS MOVE

float, sink, slope, fast, slow, roll, move, flow

push, pull, movement, swerve, slide, twist, swing, spin, faster, slower, go further, equipment

friction, magnetic, repel, attract, poles, magnetism, force, compress,

Theory, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, friction, air resistance, water resistance, Newtons, force meter, resist

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PHYSICS

9a. Can you talk about day and night?

n/a – links to other strands

9b. Can you explain the meaning of the words dark, light, reflection, and shadow?

9c. How do humans see?

9 LIGHT

day, night, light, dark, nocturnal

light, dark, shadow, reflection, opaque, transparent, translucent, direction, light source,

periscope, filters, refraction

10a. What things need to be plugged in and what needs batteries?

10b. Can you construct a working electrical circuit using different components and explain how it works?

10c. Can you draw a circuit diagram and give reasons for how different components affect a circuit?

10 ELECTRICITY

electricity, plug, battery

electricity, circuit, bulb, battery, conductor, insulator, switch, power

circuit diagram, voltage, series circuit, complete circuit, symbol, component,

11a. Can you use instruments to make different sounds?

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11b. How are different sounds made and how do we hear sound?

11 SOUND

sound, tap, scrape, shake

sound, vibration, ear drum, waves, volume, air, pitch, loud, quiet, insulate

12a. What is our planet called and where do astronauts sometimes visit?

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12b. How does the Earth move in relation to our moon, other planets, and the Sun?

12 EARTH AND SPACE

earth, space, sun, moon, star, planet

spherical, orbit, spin, rotate, solar system, sunrise, sunset,

heliocentric, geocentric, revolve, axis, gravitational pull,

Working Scientifically

Look, explain, explore, find out, watch

Explore, compare, suggest, notice, describe, equipment

Observe , predict, fair, variables, data, patterns, evidence, explain ,record, conclusion

Enquiries, refute/support, analyse, hypothesis, risk, classification, relationships, anomalies, justify