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  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Parts of a Plant

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

    Ages 5 to 6Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Animal Body Groups

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

    Ages 5 to 7Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Body Parts & Senses

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

    Ages 5 to 6Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Animal Life Stages

    Recognise that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults, and describe basic animal life stages

    Ages 6 to 7Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Seeds & Plant Growth

    Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants through stages of germination and growth

    Ages 6 to 7Method
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    What Plants Need to Grow

    Understand that plants need water, light, and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy

    Ages 6 to 8Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Offspring resemble parents

    Observe that young plants and animals resemble their parents but are not identical, recognising inherited similarities and individual differences

    Ages 6 to 11Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Life Cycles of Organisms

    Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all share the common stages of birth, growth, reproduction, and death

    Ages 7 to 9Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    How Plant Parts Work

    Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots absorb water and nutrients, stems transport materials, leaves make food…

    Ages 7 to 8Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Pollination & Seed Dispersal

    Understand the life cycle of flowering plants including pollination, seed formation, and seed dispersal

    Ages 7 to 8Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Animal Nutrition

    Understand that animals, including humans, need the right types and amounts of nutrition, and that animals cannot make their own food

    Ages 7 to 8Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Animal Classification Vocabulary

    Use vocabulary for classifying animals and describing life cycles — vertebrate, invertebrate, mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, insect, arachnid, larva…

    Ages 7 to 9Language
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Drawing Life Cycle Diagrams

    Draw and interpret life cycle diagrams for flowering plants, insects (complete and incomplete metamorphosis), birds, and mammals — labelling stages, describing…

    Ages 7 to 8Representation
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Skeletons & Muscles

    Identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection, and movement

    Ages 7 to 8Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    What Plants Need to Thrive

    Explore and compare the requirements of plants for life and growth: air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow

    Ages 7 to 8Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Water Transport in Plants

    Investigate how water is transported within plants, using observations such as coloured water being drawn up through a stem

    Ages 7 to 8Method
  • Science // Polar Regions

    Where Are the Poles?

    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…

    Ages 5 to 7Concept
  • Science // Polar Regions

    Arctic vs Antarctic

    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…

    Ages 5 to 7Concept
  • Science // Polar Regions

    Polar Animals

    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…

    Ages 5 to 7Concept
  • Science // Polar Regions

    Penguins

    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…

    Ages 5 to 7Concept
  • Science // Polar Regions

    Polar Bears

    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…

    Ages 5 to 7Concept
  • Science // Polar Regions

    Ice & Snow

    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…

    Ages 5 to 7Concept
  • Science // Polar Regions

    Brave Polar Explorers

    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…

    Ages 5 to 7Concept
  • Science // Polar Regions

    Midnight Sun & Polar Night

    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…

    Ages 5 to 7Concept