Science

Cycle 1: Our Living Earth

Vocabulary

Amphibian

Fossil

Reptile

Insect

Offspring

Mammal

Decay

Hygiene

Germ

Exoskeleton

Progressive Skills

Identifying & Classifying

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.

Observing

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

Creating & Using Data

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

Cycle 2: Plants and Trees

Vocabulary

germinate

seed

bulb

fruit

flower

trunk

stem

pollinate

soil

sprout

evergreen

deciduous

root

nutrients

shoot

petal

bean

oxygen

branch

Higher level vocabulary.

Progressive Skills

Identifying & Classifying

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.

Observing

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

Creating & Using Data

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.

Core Learning

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.

Progressive Content

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.

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