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Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment and understand that adaptation may lead to evolution over time

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Use evidence to explain how variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and…

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Analyse and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group…

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the human digestive system: mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Identify the different types of human teeth (incisors, canines, molars) and describe their functions in eating

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment as well as inheritance

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Describe the changes as humans develop to old age, including the stages of the human life cycle

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Use a model to describe that animals receive information through their senses, process it in their brain, and respond in different ways

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behaviour, and reproduction

Science // Polar Regions

Compare the Arctic and Antarctic in detail — the Arctic is an ocean covered by floating sea ice with surrounding land masses (Canada, Russia, Greenland…

Science // Polar Regions

Understand 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…

Science // Polar Regions

Know 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…

Science // Polar Regions

Understand 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…

Science // Polar Regions

Know what the Arctic tundra is — a vast, treeless landscape with permafrost (permanently frozen ground) just below the surface, a very short growing season in…

Science // Polar Regions

Know that indigenous peoples have lived in the Arctic for thousands of years — the Inuit across Canada, Alaska, and Greenland, and the Sami in northern…

Science // Polar Regions

Understand how polar animals are adapted to survive extreme cold — blubber (thick fat layer) insulates seals and whales, hollow fur traps air for warmth in…

Science // Polar Regions

Understand why the poles have extreme seasons — Earth's axis is tilted at about 23.5°, so as it orbits the Sun, each pole spends half the year tilted toward the…

Science // Polar Regions

Understand the conservation challenges facing polar regions — marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean aim to preserve Antarctic ecosystems, Arctic nations…

Science // Polar Regions

Understand how climate change is affecting polar regions — Arctic sea ice is shrinking dramatically (losing about 13% per decade since 1979), the Greenland and…