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Science // Organisms & Life Processes
Animal Life StagesRecognise that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults, and describe basic animal life stages
Ages 6 to 7ConceptScience // Organisms & Life Processes
What Plants Need to GrowUnderstand that plants need water, light, and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy
Ages 6 to 8ConceptScience // Organisms & Life Processes
Offspring resemble parentsObserve that young plants and animals resemble their parents but are not identical, recognising inherited similarities and individual differences
Ages 6 to 11ConceptScience // Organisms & Life Processes
Life Cycles of OrganismsDevelop 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 9ConceptScience // Organisms & Life Processes
How Plant Parts WorkIdentify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots absorb water and nutrients, stems transport materials, leaves make food…
Ages 7 to 8ConceptScience // Organisms & Life Processes
Pollination & Seed DispersalUnderstand the life cycle of flowering plants including pollination, seed formation, and seed dispersal
Ages 7 to 8ConceptScience // Organisms & Life Processes
Animal NutritionUnderstand that animals, including humans, need the right types and amounts of nutrition, and that animals cannot make their own food
Ages 7 to 8ConceptScience // Organisms & Life Processes
Skeletons & MusclesIdentify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection, and movement
Ages 7 to 8ConceptScience // Organisms & Life Processes
What Plants Need to ThriveExplore and compare the requirements of plants for life and growth: air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow
Ages 7 to 8ConceptScience // 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 7ConceptScience // Polar Regions
Arctic vs AntarcticKnow 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 7ConceptScience // Polar Regions
Polar AnimalsKnow 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 7ConceptScience // Polar Regions
PenguinsKnow 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 7ConceptScience // Polar Regions
Polar BearsKnow 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 7ConceptScience // Polar Regions
Ice & SnowKnow 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 7ConceptScience // Polar Regions
Brave Polar ExplorersKnow 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 7ConceptScience // Polar Regions
Midnight Sun & Polar NightKnow 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 7ConceptScience // Polar Regions
Comparing Arctic & AntarcticCompare the Arctic and Antarctic in detail — the Arctic is an ocean covered by floating sea ice with surrounding land masses (Canada, Russia, Greenland…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptScience // Polar Regions
Polar Food ChainsUnderstand polar food chains — in the Antarctic, phytoplankton are eaten by krill, krill are eaten by fish and penguins, and penguins are eaten by leopard seals…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptScience // Polar Regions
The Race to the South PoleKnow the story of the race to the South Pole in detail — Norwegian Roald Amundsen and British Robert Falcon Scott both set out in 1911, Amundsen arrived first…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptScience // Polar Regions
Ice & States of MatterUnderstand ice in different forms and states of matter — sea ice forms when ocean water freezes (it's salty and relatively thin), glacial ice forms from…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptScience // Polar Regions
The Arctic TundraKnow what the Arctic tundra is — a vast, treeless landscape with permafrost (permanently frozen ground) just below the surface, a very short growing season in…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptScience // Polar Regions
Inuit & Sami PeoplesKnow that indigenous peoples have lived in the Arctic for thousands of years — the Inuit across Canada, Alaska, and Greenland, and the Sami in northern…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptScience // Polar Regions
Cold-Weather AdaptationsUnderstand how polar animals are adapted to survive extreme cold — blubber (thick fat layer) insulates seals and whales, hollow fur traps air for warmth in…
Ages 7 to 9Concept