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Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Construct and interpret food chains identifying producers, predators, and prey, and understand energy transfer between trophic levels

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways based on observable features

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Explore and use classification keys to identify, group, and name living things in local and wider environments

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Use vocabulary for human impact on the environment — pollution, habitat destruction, deforestation, biodiversity, conservation, renewable energy, non-renewable…

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive, such as herds, packs, or colonies

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Use vocabulary for feeding relationships and ecological roles — producer, consumer, predator, prey, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, decomposer, food chain, food…

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Read and interpret food web diagrams — identify producers, primary and secondary consumers, and decomposers; trace energy flow along food chains within the web…

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Describe differences in the life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects, and birds, comparing metamorphosis with direct development

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals, including sexual and asexual reproduction in plants

Science // Energy

Name and use vocabulary for types of energy and energy transfer — kinetic energy, potential energy, heat energy, light energy, sound energy, electrical energy…

Science // Energy

Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts: cells, wires, bulbs, switches, and buzzers

Science // Energy

Identify common appliances that run on electricity and understand that electricity is a form of energy that powers devices in everyday life

Science // Energy

Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit, controlling whether a lamp lights or a buzzer sounds

Science // Energy

Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery

Science // Energy

Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors of electricity

Science // Energy

Observe and provide evidence that energy can be transferred from place to place by sound, light, heat, and electric currents

Science // Energy

Draw and read simple circuit diagrams using standard symbols for cells, bulbs, switches, buzzers, and wires; identify whether a circuit is complete or broken…

Science // Energy

Use evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object

Science // Energy

Use technical vocabulary for electrical circuits — circuit, component, cell, battery, current, voltage, resistance, conductor, insulator, switch, series…

Science // Energy

Apply scientific ideas to design, test, and refine a device that converts energy from one form to another

Science // Energy

Ask questions and predict outcomes about the changes in energy that occur when objects collide

Science // Forces & Motion

Name and describe forces using precise vocabulary — force, push, pull, twist, stretch, squash, contact force, non-contact force, gravity, weight, friction, air…

Science // Forces & Motion

Compare how things move on different surfaces, noticing that some surfaces create more friction than others

Science // Forces & Motion

Notice that some forces need contact between two objects (contact forces) while magnetic forces can act at a distance (non-contact forces)