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EYFS | Understanding the World
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Year 1 | Animals including humans
How can we group animals? What makes us human? | Seasonal Changes
What are the seasons? | Everyday Materials
Why do we use different materials for different things? | Seasonal Changes
What changes occur throughout the seasons? | Plants
How can we identify different trees and plants? | |
Year 1 Scientific Enquiry Type | Identify & classify Pattern seeking | Identify & classify Observe | Identify & classify Pattern seeking Testing | Pattern seeking Identify & classify Observing
| Identify & classify Observing Pattern seeking
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Year 1 Working Scientifically | Ask questions Record Make predictions Observing & measuring Interpret results | Record Interpret results | Observing & measuring Record Making predictions Setting up tests | Interpret results Ask questions Make predictions | Observing & measuring Record Interpret results | |
Vocabulary | Beak, body part, claws, egg, feathers, fin, food, fur, hear, meat, paws, plant, scales, see, smell, taste, touch, wings, amphibian, bird, carnivore, diet, carnivore, diet, differences, fish, herbivore, human, mammal, omnivore, reptile, senses, similarities, abdomen, arms, chest, ears, elbows, face, hair, hands, head, knees, legs, mouth, neck, shoulders, teeth, toes. | Rain, wind, sun, cloud, month, year, change, event, explain, compare, weather celebrate, festival, natural, autumn, evergreen, deciduous, season, sunrise, sunset, daylight. | Bendy, dull, glass, metal, plastic, rough, rubber, shiny, smooth, stiff, wood, compare, describe, investigate, material, object, observe, properties, suitable, waterproof. | Rest, move, change, growth, pattern, cycle, stay alive, living things, tilt, survive, shelter, hibernate, migrate, adapt, prediction, deciduous, daylight, sunrise, sunset. | Flower, fruit, leaves, plant, stem, tree, bark, branches, bulb, classify, grow, identify, observe, petal, roots, seed, trunk, deciduous, evergreen, shoot | |
Year 2 | Animals including humans
How do animals survive, grow and stay healthy? | Everyday Materials
How are materials chosen in design | Living Things and their Environments
How do we know something is alive? | Plants
How do seeds and bulbs grow into healthy plants? | ||
Year 2 Scientific Enquiry Type | Identify & classify Testing Problem solving | Identify & classify Testing Problem solving | Identify & classify Research Pattern seeking
| Identify & classify Observing Researching Testing Problem solving | ||
Year 2 Working Scientifically Skills | Ask questions Record Observing and measuring Interpret results Setting up tests Evaluate | Record Interpret data Make predictions Ask questions | Record Interpret data Observing & measuring Ask questions | Observing & measuring Record Interpret results Ask questions Setting up tests | ||
Vocabulary | Adult, air, exercise, food, water, young, alive, animal, diet, change, compare, growth, healthy, human, investigate, observe, offspring, shelter, survive, hygiene, life cycle, pupa. | Bend, hard, press, rough, smooth, soft, squash, stretch, stretchy, twist, flexible, fragile, human, material, natural, object, observation, property, protect, record, results, rigid, suitable, unsuitable, design, opaque, transparent, waterproof. | Damp, grow, move, alive, conditions, dead, environment, feature, living, plant, protect, shade, sheltered, soil, suitable, carnivore, food chain, habitat, herbivore, microhabitat, omnivore, survive. | Alive, damp, dead, flower, fruit, healthy, leaves, plant, shade, spiky, stem, bulb, compare, conditions, investigate, living, prediction, roots, seed, sheltered, germinate, shoot. | ||
Year 3 | Animals including humans
How do the systems insider our body work? | Rocks and Soils
How can we classify rocks? | Magnets
How do magnets work? | Light
What is light? | Plants
How does each part of the plant fulfil its function? | |
Year 3 Scientific Enquiry Type | Identify & classify Pattern seeking Observing | Observing Identify & classify Testing Researching Pattern seeking Problem solving | Identify & classify Testing Researching Observing | Observing Testing Pattern seeking Identify & classify Researching Problem solving | Identify & classify Observing Testing Research | |
Year 3 Working scientifically skills | Record Setting up tests Observing & measuring Interpret results | Asking questions Make predictions Setting up tests Observing & measuring Record Interpret results Evaluating | Observing & measuring Record Interpret data Ask questions Make predictions Setting up tests
| Asking questions Making predictions Setting up tests Observing & measuring Recording data Interpreting results Evaluating | Observing & measuring Record Making predictions Setting up tests Interpret results | |
Vocabulary | Bonem, contract, diet, fats, human, involuntary, movement, pairs, prediction, protection, relax, support, voluntary, carbohydrates, carnivore, exoskeleton, herbivore, invertebrate, joint, muscles, nutrients, nutrition, omnivore, proteins, skeleton, vertebrate | Rock, soil, fossil, appearance, physical properties, igneous rock, sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock. | Pull, push, rough, smooth, attract, force, grip, observe, prediction, record, surface, compass, friction, magnet, magnetic, pole, repel | Light source, dark, reflect, shadow, opaque, translucent, transparent, luminous | Flower, fruit, leaves, plant, seed, stem, compare, conditions, disperse, dissect, features, identify, investigate, observe, petal, prediction, root, variable, anther, fertilisation, nutrients, ovary, pollen, pollination, sepal, stamen, stigma | |
Year 4 | Animals including humans
What happens to the food we eat?
| States of Matter | Electricity
What is electricity? | Sound
What is sound? | Living Things and their Habitats
Which living things can we identify in the local area? | |
Year 4 Scientific enquiry | Identify & classify Testing Research
| Identify & classify Testing Observing
| Observing Identify & classify Researching | Observing Research Testing Pattern seeking
| Observing Identify & classify Researching | |
Year 4 Working Scientifically Skills | Record Make predictions Setting up tests Interpreting results Evaluate Ask questions | Record Interpret results Observing & measuring
| Ask questions Observing & measuring Record Interpret results Evaluating | Ask questions Make predictions Setting up tests Observing & measuring Record Interpret results Evaluating | Ask questions Observing & measuring Recording data Interpret results Evaluating | |
Vocabulary | Healthy, mouth, stomach, teeth, tongue, absorb, diet, digest, energy, function, observe, prediction, system, variable, canine, carnivore, consumer, digestion, food chain, habitat, herbivore, incisors, internal organ, large intestine, molars, nutrients, oesophagus, omnivore, predator, premolars, prey, producer, rectum, salivary gland, small intestine, tooth decay | Cold, cool, dry, fall, faster, hard, hot, move, pour slower, soft, spread, time, wet, collect, cycle, freeze, measure, melt, observe, repeat, reverse, temperature, condensation, degrees Celsius, evaporation, fair test, freezing point, gas, liquid, matter, melting point, particles, precipitation, reversible change, scale, solid, state, steam, tepid, thermometer, water cycle, water vapour. | Appliance, battery, circuit, components, conductor, current, electrical, insulator, mains power, portable, pylon, switch. | Vibrate/vibration, volume, pitch, pinna, cochlea, eardrum | Characteristic, classify, climate, criteria, environment, evaluate, feature, identify, observe, plant, deciduous, evergreen, exoskeleton, habitat, invertebrate, nutrients, nutrition, pollution, species, vertebrate. | |
Year 5 | Earth & Space
How does the earth fit into our solar system? | Forces
Are there different types of forces? | Properties & changes of materials
How do materials change? | Living things and their habitats
How do living things reproduce, and why is this important in a life cycle? | Animals including humans
How do we change as we grow older? | |
| Identify & classify Observing Pattern seeking Testing Problem solving | Observing Testing Problem solving Pattern seeking Researching | Identify & classify Testing Problem solving Researching Observing | Identify & classify Testing Researching Pattern seeking Observing | Researching Observing Pattern seeking Identify & classify Problem solving Testing | |
| Record Setting up tests Observing & measuring Evaluating Interpret results | Observing & measuring Setting up tests Record Interpret results
| Record Interpret results Setting up tests Observing & measuring Making predictions Evaluating | Record Interpret results Making predictions Setting up tests Asking questions Observing & measuring | Asking questions Making predictions Setting up tests Observing & measuring Record Interpret results Evaluating | |
Vocabulary | Day, moon, night, star, sun, analyse, cycle, data, evidence, orbit, planet, reflect, space, sphere, test, asteroid, astronomer, artificial, axis, gravity, satellite | Pull, push, rough, smooth, attract, balanced, compare, force, grip, interpret, machine, prediction, record, surface, variable, air resistance, control variable, dependent variable, fair test, force meter, friction, gears, gravity, independent variable, lever, magnetic, mechanism, pulley, repel, streamlined, surface area, water resistance. | Clear, cloudy, hard, object, soft, classify, compare, conclusion, evidence, flexible, material, measure, melt, mixture, observe, prediction, property, rigid, separate, sieve, solution, temperature, variable, absorbent, chemical change, control variables, dependent variable, dissolve, electrical conductor, electrical insulator, evaporation, filter, gas, independent variable, insoluble, irreversible change, liquid, magnetic, opaque, particles, reversible change, solid, soluble, thermal conductor, thermal insulator, transparent, waterproof | Insect, seed, bulb, characteristic, disperse, dormant, flowering plant, independent, nurture, offspring, reproduce, survive, variable, amphibian, clone, fertilisation, germination, gills, lava, metamorphosis, ovary, pollen, pollination, propagate, pupa, species. | Birth, conception, fertilisation, death, develop, egg, foetus, puberty, sperm, womb | |
Year 6 | Animals including humans
How do an animal’s living systems work together to maintain a healthy body? | Electricity
How can circuits vary? | Light
What is light? | Living Things and their Habitats
What is classification? | Evolution
What is evolution?
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Year 6 Scientific enquiry type | Identify & classify Observe Testing Researching Problem solving | Problem solving Testing Pattern seeking | Testing Observing Pattern seeking Researching Identify & classify Problem solving | Observing Identify & classify Research | Researching Observing Pattern seeking Identify & classify Testing Problem solving | |
Year 6 Working scientifically skills | Ask questions Record Interpreting results Setting up tests Observe & measure | Recording data Observing and measuring Interprenting results Evaluating | Ask questions Make predictions Setting up tests Observing & measuring Recording data Interpret results Evaluating | Record Interpret results Make predictions Observing & measuring | Ask questions Make predictions Setting up tests Observing & measuring Record Interpret results Evaluating | |
Vocabulary | Blood, heart, muscle, pump, absorb, addictive, contract, diet, digest, drug, enquiry, evidence, exercise, function, illegal, legal, lifestyle, prescribe, pulse, reliable, system, transport, variable, arteries, blood vessels, cells, circulatory, deoxygenated blood, heart rate, internal organs, nutrients, oxygenated blood, veins. | Battery, brightness, switch, appliance, component, circuit, variable, cell, series circuit, voltage, electron, filaments, terminal, circuit diagram, lux, solar power, electrician, static electricity, fossil fuel, electricity, dependent variable, independent variable, control variable. | Dark, reflect, shadow, opaque, translucent, transparent, luminous, scattering, absorption, refraction | Appearance, classify, characteristic, criteria, disease, dormant, identify, infectious, infective, influenza, majority, observe, virus, aquatic, arthropod, carnivore, cell, deciduous, evergreen, exoskeleton, herbivore, invertebrate, kingdom, microbe, microscope, myriapod, omnivore, organism, parasite, respiration, species, spores, vascular, vertebrate | Adaptation, environment, evolution, gene, natural selection, inheritance, organism, species. | |