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THEME: SAFETY IN SCIENCE
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Knowledge and skills needed from year 6
Sept year 7
Safety in the science lab, hazards symbols, naming and using science apparatus, risk assessment.
No knowledge or skills expected from primary but there may have been some general work on hazards and risks.
THEME : EXPLORATION
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Knowledge and skills needed from year 6
October - December
Particles, solids, liquids and gases, elements and compounds
Substances can be solid, liquid or gas and simple changes of state e.g. melting, boiling
October - December
Classification, food chains, density, forces, light
Simple ideas about putting things into groups. Describing what different types of animals eat. Understand that pushes and pulls are forces.
October - December
Waves, energy, magnetism
Simple understanding of water waves and then the use of the terms "light waves" and "sound waves" (no explanation needed). Understand that substances can be magnetic or non-magnetic. Use terms "repel" and "attract".
January - February
Forces, acids and alkalis, energy, photosynthesis, separating mixtures, human health
Basics of photosynthesis. Can identify some threats to human health e.g. a cold is caused by a virus. Know some simple treatments for disease, basic first aid, good hygiene. Know that some changes are reversible e.g. dissolving.
March - April
Elements, compounds & mixtures, particle diagrams, chemical formulae, changing state, Greenhouse effect & global warming, classification, food webs, pyramids of number & biomass, oil & plastics
Some ideas about climate change. Simple ideas about classifying things into groups. Basic ideas about food chains.
THEME: COLOUR
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Knowledge and skills needed from year 6
May - June
Characteristics of living things. Further classification. Life cycle of flowering plant. Seed germination, cells, use of microscope. Organs and organ systems.
Simple observations of living things v non-living things. Know that some plants have flowers and others do not.
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