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Science // Ocean Life

Know that whales and dolphins are mammals, not fish — they breathe air, are warm-blooded, and feed their babies milk — even though they live in the ocean

Science // Ocean Life

Know what a coast or beach is — the place where land meets the ocean — and that different coasts can be sandy, rocky, or muddy, each with different plants and…

Science // Ocean Life

Explore rock pools (tide pools) as small ocean habitats where crabs, anemones, starfish, and small fish can be found, and understand that these creatures are…

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Identify and name common animals from major groups: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Identify and name common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Name and use vocabulary for what makes something living — alive, dead, never been alive, movement, nutrition, growth, reproduction, sensitivity, excretion — and…

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Understand what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive: water, food, air, and suitable conditions

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Classify common animals as carnivores (eat meat), herbivores (eat plants), or omnivores (eat both)

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Identify and describe the basic structure of common flowering plants (roots, stem, leaves, flowers) and trees (roots, trunk, branches, leaves)

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Describe and compare the external body structure of common animals across groups (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals)

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Identify, name, and locate basic parts of the human body and associate each body part with its sense

Science // Polar Regions

Know that Earth has a North Pole and a South Pole — the two coldest places on the planet — and be able to find them on a globe, understanding that they are at…

Science // Polar Regions

Know that the Arctic (North Pole) and Antarctic (South Pole) are very different — the Arctic is a frozen ocean surrounded by land where people and polar bears…

Science // Polar Regions

Know about other polar animals besides penguins and polar bears — seals that swim under ice, walruses with long tusks, Arctic foxes that turn white in winter…

Science // Polar Regions

Know key facts about penguins — they live in the Antarctic and Southern Hemisphere, they cannot fly but are excellent swimmers, Emperor penguins are the largest…

Science // Polar Regions

Know key facts about polar bears — they live only in the Arctic (not the Antarctic), they have thick white fur and a layer of fat (blubber) to keep warm, they…

Science // Polar Regions

Know that water can be solid (ice and snow) or liquid, that snow is made of tiny frozen ice crystals, that icebergs are huge chunks of ice floating in the ocean…

Science // Polar Regions

Know simple stories of brave polar explorers — Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen who raced to the South Pole, and Ernest Shackleton whose ship Endurance…

Science // Polar Regions

Know that at the poles, daylight and darkness are extreme — in summer the Sun never fully sets (midnight sun) and in winter the Sun never rises (polar night…

Science // Rainforests

Know that a rainforest is a thick, tall forest found in hot, wet places near the Equator where it rains almost every day, creating a warm, damp environment…

Science // Rainforests

Know that a rainforest has four layers from ground to sky — the forest floor (dark, damp, full of decomposing leaves), the understory (small trees and shrubs in…

Science // Rainforests

Name and recognise iconic rainforest animals — jaguars, toucans, sloths, poison dart frogs, howler monkeys, macaws, and butterflies — and know which layer of…

Science // Rainforests

Know that rainforests contain an enormous variety of plants — towering kapok and Brazil nut trees, climbing vines called lianas, colourful orchids that grow on…

Science // Rainforests

Know that rainforests are found in a belt around the middle of the Earth — in South America (the Amazon), Central Africa (the Congo), and Southeast Asia — and…