Amphibian
Fossil
Reptile
Insect
Offspring
Mammal
Decay
Hygiene
Germ
Exoskeleton
Naming materials.
Sorting and grouping skills.
Use simple features to compare objects, materials and living things.
Decide how to sort and group them.
Notice patterns and relationships.
Developing vocabulary.
Identify connections between objects.
Perform simple tests.
Use a variety of scientific equipment.
Observe changes over time.
Notice patterns and relationships.
Recognise ways in which they might answer scientific questions.
Develop vocabulary.
Identify questions that can be tested
Use simple measurements and equipment to gather data.
Carry out simple tests.
Use a variety of scientific equipment.
Record simple data in a variety of ways.
Talk about what they have found out and how they found it out.
Record and communicate their findings in a range of ways.
Use simple scientific language.
Lessons 1 and 2: Life Cycles
Make your own Life Cycle Display
Lessons 3 and 4: Animals Around Us
Building a Bottle Bird Feeder
Animal X-Rays
Lessons 5 and 6: Dead or Alive?
Fossil Making
Animal Identification
Lessons 7 and 8: Healthy Eating... or Not?
Fruit Kebabs
Eggshell Investigation
Lessons 9 and 10: Exercise
Measuring Heart Rates
Stretchy Bands
Make a Stethoscope
Lessons 11 and 12: Keeping Clean
Snot!
DIY Germs
germinate
seed
bulb
fruit
flower
trunk
stem
pollinate
soil
sprout
evergreen
deciduous
root
nutrients
shoot
petal
bean
oxygen
branch
Higher level vocabulary.
Naming materials.
Sorting and grouping skills.
Use simple features to compare objects, materials and living things.
Decide how to sort and group them.
Notice patterns and relationships.
Developing vocabulary.
Identify connections between objects.
Perform simple tests.
Use a variety of scientific equipment.
Observe changes over time.
Notice patterns and relationships.
Recognise ways in which they might answer scientific questions.
Develop vocabulary.
Identify questions that can be tested
Use simple measurements and equipment to gather data.
Carry out simple tests.
Use a variety of scientific equipment.
Record simple data in a variety of ways.
Talk about what they have found out and how they found it out.
Record and communicate their findings in a range of ways.
Use simple scientific language.
Pupils should be taught to:
identify and name a variety of common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees,
identify and describe the basic structure of a variety of common flowering plants, including trees,
observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants,
find out and describe how plants need water, light and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy,
identify and name a variety of plants in their habitats, including microhabitats.
Lessons 1 and 2: Why do we need plants? Map of plants in the school grounds. What do plants do for us?
Lessons 3 and 4: Seeds Seed prediction – which will germinate first? Germination: Do seeds need their cover?
Lessons 5 and 6: What does a plant need to grow? (1) Light – plant maze and growing vegetables.
Lessons 7 and 8: What does a plant need to grow? (2) Temperature – seed germination, including stages of growth and planting bulbs.
Lessons 9 and 10: Trees - what do we get from a tree?
Lessons 11 and 12: Leaves - why don’t plants have legs? Investigating and naming parts of a tree, including leaf collection.