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SCIENCE CURRICULUM OVERVIEW
| GRADE/YEAR |
KEY AREAS OF STUDY |
| KG1/Reception Year |
FOUNDATIONS- the hospital, the garage, the vet, the dentist, the cave, the café, the rainforest, the Antarctic, the building site, the sweet shop, shadows, the garden centre, the baby clinic, sand, water. |
| KG2/Year1 |
OURSELVES- the body, 5 senses, living/nonliving things, moving/growing. GROWING PLANTS- needs, similarities/differences. SORTING /USING MATERIALS- characteristics, uses, describing, comparing. LIGHT/DARK- sources, uses. PUSHES/PULLS- different movements, stopping. SOUND/HEARING- variety, sources, how we hear, safety, testing distance. |
| Grade1/Year2 |
HEALTH/GROWTH- eating, exercise, growth, medicine safety. PLANTS/ANIMALS- seeds, flowers, care, reproduction, growth in plants,chickens,butterflies,frogs. VARIATION- similarities/differences, measure, record.GROUPING/CHANGINGMATERIALS- sources, cool/heat. FORCES/MOVEMENT-push/pull affecting shape. USING ELECTRICITY-appliances, safety, circuits, batteries. |
| Grade2/Year3 |
TEETH/EATING-food types, healthy diets, types of teeth, dental care. HELPING PLANTS GROW WELL-roots, leaves, stems, water, light, warmth. CHARACTERISTICS OF MATERIALS-range, properties, purposes, testing. ROCKS/SOILS-types, erosion, permeability. MAGNETS/SPRINGS-attract/repel, compress/stretch,uses,tests. LIGHT/SHADOW-making, sun position, earthspin. |
| Grade3/Year4 |
MOVING/GROWING-skeletons, muscles, exercise. HABITATS-plants/animals, food sources/chains, protection. KEEPING WARM- temperature, insulators, conductors, thermometers. SEPARATING SOLIDS/LIQUIDS- melting, dissolving, freezing, differences, changes, separation. FRICTION-measure/compare forces, water/air resistance. CIRCUITS/CONDUCTORS-batteries, switches. |
| Grade4/Year5 |
KEEPING HEALTHY-diet, exercise, heart, lungs, pulse, tobacco/alcohol. LIFE CYCLES- seed dispersal, germination, pollination, flower parts. GASES-properties/differences between gas/liquid/solid, evaporation. CHANGING STATE-water cycle, evaporate, condense, boil/melt. EARTH/SUN/MOON-movement, orbit,size,distance. CHANGING SOUNDS-vibration, pitch, travel, description |
| Grade5/Year6 |
INTERDEPENDENCE/ADAPTATION-plant/animal/habitat relationship. MICRO-ORGANISMS-germs, disease, mould, decay, yeast. MORE ABOUT DISSOLVING-water purification/testing. REVERSIBLE/IRREVERSIBLE CHANGES-filtration, burning, evapor-ation. FORCES IN ACTION-gravity, air/water resist. HOW WE SEE THINGS-light/mirrors/reflection. CHANGING CIRCUITS-draw/test. |
| Grade 6/Year 7 |
ENERGY- description, movement, storage, sound energy. CHANGING STATE- solids, liquids, gases, particles, dissolving, separating. LIVING THINGS- classifying, vertabrates/invertabrates, species survival. BURNING- why? changes, reactions, energy fuels. ELECTRICITY- energy, circuits, magnets. PLANT POWER- microscopes, cells, photosynthesis, plant structure and reproduction. METALS- description, nonmetals, elements, heating, rusting, compounds. FORCES- gravity, friction, speed balance, relationships. LIFE STORY- animal babies, reproductive systems, pregnancy. |
| Grade 7/Year 8 |
ACIDS/BASES- alkalis, acidity, corrosion, pH. VITAL ORGANS- cells, tissues, circulation, skeleton, muscles. EARTH AND SPACE- solar system, orbits, gravity. MATTER- atoms, molecules, elements, compounds, reactions. NUTRITION- nutrients, diet, digestion. ENERGY RESOURCES- fuel, coal, oil, gas, pollution, other forms. ROCKS- minerals, weathering, erosion, formation, types. ENVIRONMENT- plant groups, respiration, growth, biomass, food webs, toxic waste in food chains. LIGHT/SOUND- how it travels, how we see it, absorption, reflection, refraction, properties. |
| Grade 8/Year 9 |
CHEMICAL REACTIONS- changes, elements, compounds, symbols, formulae, mass, equations. COMPETITION- inheritance, variation, adaptation, competition, populations, selective breeding, probability. BALANCED FORCES- pivots, levers, applications, pressure, hydraulics, pneumatics, equilibrium. CHEMICAL PATTERNS- periodic table, reaction of metals, displacement, variables. BEING HEALTHY- fitness, exercise, gas exchange, nicotine, alcohol, micro-organisms, cell division, infection, drugs. MOVING ENERGY- temperature, conduction, convection, radiation. REVISION |
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