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Year 1 |
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Teaching
Activity |
Resources & NC Guidance |
1a
Ourselves |
Use their senses to explore the world
around them. Learn that humans and other animals move and grow. |
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Resources Needed
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Story about using senses (for actions)
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Songs / poems about using senses
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Secondary sources showing young and adult animals
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Secondary sources showing a variety of animals (including humans of different ethnicity) – vertebrates and invertebrates
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Photos of pupils and their parents
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Photos of people getting older
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Video /CDROM of animals moving
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Tape of familiar sounds
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Objects and magnifying lenses
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Collections of things that smell
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Feely bags
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Selection of crisps
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Modelling materials eg play dough / plasticine
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Photos/ collections of animate and inanimate objects
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Collect data to construct
a simple IT database or graph about themselves (foot size, hair
colour etc). |
A program such as Pick a
Picture, Starting Graph or Counter
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BBC
Science Clips: Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials
about ourselves. |
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Use the Intel Microscope
to identify how an unfamiliar minibeast will move. Create a video
and use it to discuss movement of the minibeasts. |
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Resources to support teaching
and learning (Lesson plans, printables and pictures). |
Clicker 4 Grids. You need to register with Learning Grids to access them:
ICT Coverage:
My World Screens:
Body
Face |
| 1b
Growing plants |
Learn that plants are living things. Being aware
of the similarities and differences between plants. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Planted seedlings
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Small plants in pots or tubs which will flower
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Pot plants to be repotted
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Soil and containers for growing plants
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Collection of pictures of a variety of plants
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Large labelled plan/drawing of school grounds
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Clipboards for field work
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Sticky labels
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Simple plant identification sources
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Artificial plants
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To be able to identify the parts of a plant. |
My World 3: Plant activity
ICT Coverage: |
BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about growing plants. |
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Use the Intel Microsocope to observe and photograph
seeds shooting (ie bean, cress) over a period of time. |
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plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 1C
Sorting and using materials |
Learn about the characteristics by describing
and comparing materials. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
- Collection of common materials
- Collection of wooden objects – preferably attractive or ornamental (cultural input?)
- Selection of papers and fabrics including some that are waterproof
- Jugs and containers
- Collection of objects/materials to illustrate particular properties
- Assorted magnets
- Reference books on materials
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Exploring the properties of materials:
what they are used for, what they are made of and how they work.
Use a word processor with a word bank to present information. |
ICT Coverage:
ICT Coverage:
(Clicker 4 Grids downloadable from the
Clicker website) |
BBC Science Clips:
Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about sorting
and using materials. |
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Use the Intel Microscoope to observe the texture
of materials ie wood and paper. |
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Resources to support teaching and learning (Lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 1d
Light and dark |
Understand the need of light to see things and
identify light sources. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Torches with light beams
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shiny objects
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reflective strips, tinsel
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story about light and dark eg The Owl Who Was Afraid of the dark
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resources to create a dark area in the classroom
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collection of light sources including torches
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black boxes/ shoe boxes lined with black paper
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Write simple sentences about Night
and Day using a word processor with a word bank. |
ICT Coverage: |
BBC Science
Clips: Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about
light and dark. |
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plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 1e
Pushes and pulls |
Describe movements relating
it to pushes and pulls.
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Collection of toys which move in different ways
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Secondary resources on road safety
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Toy windmills, sand wheels, equipment for blowing bubbles
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Use a CD-ROM to introduce and reinforce
simple concepts about forces. |
ICT Coverage: |
BBC Science
Clips: Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about
pushes and pulls. |
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| 1f
Sound and hearing |
Relate sounds to their
sense of hearing and that sounds travel away from a source.
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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- Tape of familiar sounds including children speaking
- Selection of musical instruments (cultural input)
- Blindfold, earmuffs / sponges
- Apparatus for measuring length, non standard or standard
- Buzzers or other continuous sound sources
- Secondary sources eg CDROM animal noises, musical instruments,
- Simple reference books – musical instruments
- (if available) simple sound sensor
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Contribute to creating a block graph
presenting the results of a sound investigationie ie the distance
away a sound can be heard. |
A program such as Starting Graph or
Counter
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Find out what makes a sound and compare
high and low sounds on different musical instruments. |
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips:
Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about characteristics
of materials. |
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Use ICT to listen to and identify a variety of
sounds and match a sound to a picture. |
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| Resources to support teaching and learning
(Lesson plans, printables and pictures). |
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Year 2 |
| Units
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Teaching
Activity |
Resources & NC Guidance |
| 2a
Health & Growth |
Learn that animals grow and reproduce.
How to stay healthy. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
- Collection of pictures of animals and humans at different stages in their life, some where young look different at different stages
- Variety of basic food types
- Collection of packaging for medicines
- Secondary sources showing the needs of young children
- Visitors: parent and baby
- Parent and toddler
- School nurse
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Use IT to construct a pictogram for example,
the different types of exercise the children in the class do. |
A program such as Pick a Picture, Starting Graph
or Counter
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Learn about nutrition online |
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Children could make choices and write simple sentences
about the meals they eat each day. |
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about health and growth. |
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Children plan and produce a picture of a meal
for a special occasion using a paint package or drawing program. |
ICT Coverage:
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| 2b
Plants and animals in the local environment |
Learn that the differences between the immediate
environments resulting in a range of plants and animals. Learn
that plants, humans and other animals can reproduce. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Variety of habitats
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Secondary sources showing adults and young in a range of animals
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Pictures of plants in flower and with fruit and seeds
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Simple reference books
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Soil, compost, sand, absorbent paper, plant pots
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Collection of seeds of different shapes and colours
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Transparent container for growing seed in
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Seed pods and fruitsPrepared recording tables
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Explore/model lifecycles of plants
and animals |
MyWorld 3: Life Cycles activity
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| Produce an information sheet using
IT about habitats and the animals and plants that are found there.
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| Create a Branching Database of Minibeasts
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Branching
Database such as Decision 3, Flexitree, Textease Branch
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BBC Science Clips:
Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about plants
and animals in the local environment. |
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Use the Intel Microscope to examine
frog spawn, insects and seeds. |
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Resources to support teaching and learning (Lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 2c
Variation |
Become more aware of the huge variety of living
things. Be able to sort them into groups. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
- Pictures which help children understand that humans are of different genders, ages, ethnic origin but are the same inside
- Pictures and specimens of a range of animal and plants
- Video showing a variety of animals ( particularly those not found locally)
- Apparatus for showing length – standard and non standard
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Use a bank of pictures to group animals according
to similarities and differences |
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| Children could take measurements such as hand
span and present results in a block graph. Use this to raise questions
and make predictions. |
Use RM Starting Graph,
Handy Graph, 2 Graph, and Granada Database
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The children can sort the things into animal and
non-animal categories, recording their work in Clicker Writer.
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Children look at, discuss and sort a small number
of living and non-living things.
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Children using pictures could write a sentence
about each, stating whether it is alive or has never been alive.
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Children use an ICT application to create and
label parts of a plant. |
MyWorld 3: Plant activity |
BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about variation. |
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| 2d
Grouping and changing materials |
Learn ways materials can be changed and that heating
can cause changes. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Secondary sources
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Collection of natural and man-made materials
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Objects from naturally occurring materials
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Shapes for making ice shapes
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Mouldable materials eg plasticine, clay
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Access to freezer, oven, kilnMaterials which harden on cooling eg butter and chocolate
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Research natural and man-made materials
using CD-ROM |
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Children can sort, record, and use simple
sentences about materials. |
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips:
Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about grouping
and changing materials. |
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Use the Intel Microscope to observe
materials such as paper and wood for texture. |
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Resources to support teaching and learning
(Lesson plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 2e
Forces and movement |
Learn how pushes and pulls affect the movement
and shape of objects. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Materials such as plasticine and dough
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Collection of toy cars and other toys that can move
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Apparatus for measuring length
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Bean bags &/or soft balls
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Bricks and pieces of wood/thick card that can make ramps
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Collections of pictures/video showing moving objectsLarge moving apparatus
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Review learning from Unit 1E - Children look at
pictures and identify pushes and pulls. |
ICT Coverage:
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| Using pictures children
could use a word bank to answer questions about the movement of
the cars.
Children could investigate how the height
of a ramp affects the distance travelled by a toy car. |
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Children could look at and discuss the forces
of push and pull. They can then go on to sort the objects according
to whether they would push or pull them. |
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about forces and movement. |
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Resources to support teaching and learning (Lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 2f
Using electricity |
Electricity plays an essential role in everyday
life. Exploring and testing circuits. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Collection of batteries
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Batteries, bulbs, bulb holders, buzzers, crocodile clips and insulated wires
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Range of electrical devices ( or pictures) using mains electricity
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Torches, electrical devices which use batteries
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Drawing of simple circuits which do not work
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Incomplete circuitsVideo on electrical safety
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Children distinguish between things that use electricity
and things that don't. |
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science
Clips: Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about
using electricity. |
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Resources to support teaching and learning (Lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
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Year 3 |
| Units
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Teaching
Activity |
Resources & NC Guidance |
| 3a
Teeth and eating
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Learn about how teeth are related
to diet and the importance of dental care. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Secondary sources providing pictures and information about the different food types ( including food from different cultures)
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Information about the diets of animals
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Models of teeth, real teeth
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Small mirrors for examining teeth
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Video about teeth & tooth decay
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Arrange school nurse / dentist visit
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Collection of foods / food packaging
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Use CD-ROMS and websites to research diet. |
ICT Coverage:
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| Put the Food into the Correct Place |
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Select from the menu to have a healthy and balanced
meal. |
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| Use a website
to investigate what pets eat.
Carry out a cat food survey |
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| Use photographs showing
examples of human and animal teeth
Make a poster or flier about the importance
of looking after your teeth |
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| Classify foods which will not harm
their teeth |
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Attack the bad foods with the toothpaste! |
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about teeth and eating. |
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Use the Intel Microscope to take photos of a tooth,
that has been put in coca-cola, over several hours. |
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| Resources to support teaching and learning (Lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 3b
Helping plants grow well
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Learn about what plants need to grow well and
why it is important that they do. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Video / secondary sources showing plants grown for food
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Suitable apparatus for measuring height of plants
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Pot-bound pot plant
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Two similar plants eg geraniums
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Complete head of celery
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germinated beans
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hand lenses
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water coloured red with ink or dye
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plant pots with holes in the bottom
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Black polythene covering grass patch or plant grown in dark
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cress seeds which have germinated in shallow containers
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pictures of greenhouses & cold frames
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Use a website to research
plants and then use a DTP to create an information leaflet about
plants.
Design a poster, e.g.
illustrating that some plants are grown for food: using pictures
from photobanks of plants and food.
Use a digital camera
to record plant growth. Insert pictures into the grid provided.
Try to grow a healthy plant using a simulation. |
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about helping plants grow
well. |
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| Resources to support
teaching and learning (Lesson plans, printables and pictures).
Join in with activites at the RHS. |
- Science
Web
ScienceWeb has worksheets and interactives to support teaching.
Costs £20/year to register school.
- RHS
Website
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| 3c
Characteristics of materials
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Materials we use and of the properties that characterise
them. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Collections of objects made from different materials eg wood, glass, metal
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Video / pictures of everyday objects made of specific materials
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Collection of floor coverings
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sandpaper
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plasticine
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Weights
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Measuring jugs and other apparatus for measuring volume
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Variety of paper towels
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Variety of tights
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Apparatus for measuring length
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Use a website to investigate properties of materials |
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Pupils add to a database about the characteristics
of materials. Then use database to investigate suitability of
different materials for different purposes. |
Information Workshop
Materials Database
Information Magic Materials Database
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Children make measurement about the stretchiness
of tights and use a spreadsheet to record results |
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science
Clips: Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about
characteristics of materials. |
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End of unit assessment using true and false statements
about properties of materials |
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Use the Intel Microscope to look at characteristics
of materials. Use to describe the texture of materials; absorbency
of paper; stretchiness of tights...... |
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Resources to support teaching and
learning (lesson plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 3d
Rocks and soils
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Recognise that underneath all surfaces is rock
which they may not be able to see, that rocks get broken down
into pebbles and soils which we can often see, and that there
are different sorts of rock with different characteristics. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Secondary sources to illustrate different uses of rocks
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Rocks, including one permeable eg chalk, sandstone and one non-permeable eg granite, marble
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Sandpaper / file
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Pipettes / syringes
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Hand lenses
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Sieves, timers and measuring jugs or cylinders
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Containers for soil tests ( small perforations)
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Pictures / video showing landscapes with and without visible rocks and different soils
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Pictures of flooded areas / puddles
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Samples of different soils
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Research rock and soil identification using a
website. |
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Picture Banks of Rocks |
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Use a prepared database to investigate characterisitcs
of rocks. |
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about rocks and soils. |
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Use the Intel Microscope to observe and investigate
soils sample and record observations. |
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Use a CD-ROM to investigate sand and clay. |
ICT Coverage:
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Resources to support teaching and learning (lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 3e
Magnets and springs
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There are forces between
magnets and that magnets can attract and repel each other. Magnets
have a variety of uses
Gain experience in compressing and stretching
of springs and stretching of elastic bands.
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Variety of magnets (types and size)
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Paper clips
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Rulers or tape measures
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Variety of materials for testing magnetic attraction (including iron and steel)
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Springs and elastic bands
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‘catapult’ / push meter
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Secondary sources to research everyday uses of magnets
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Download all for Y3 Units a-f
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Research magnets and their everyday
uses with CD-ROM |
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Children make predictions and investigate the
force exerted by an elastic band. Recording information on a simple
spreadsheet and creating graphs of their results. |
- Lesson
plan for investigating the force exerted by an elastic band.
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about magnets and springs. |
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| 3f
Light and shadows
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Introduction to the relationship between light,
an object and the formation of shadows. Children observe the apparent
movement of the Sun and the associated changes in shadows. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
- Torches with powerful beams
- Combs with widely spaced teeth, cardboard tubes
- Objects of a variety of shapes
- Shadow sticks
- Meter sticks or tape measures
- Compass
- Collection of opaque transparent and translucent objects and materials (eg plastic bottles, fine gauze, thin nylon, wood, acetate, foils, greaseproof paper)
- White cardboard screen
- Overhead projector
- Secondary sources to investigate sundials
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Use a website to research sundials. Make a poster
illustrating how sundials work and some of their limitations.
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Simulation where children have to
work out the time of day by the shadow cast by a tree. |
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Use a CD-ROM to explore information about the
Sun and Shadows. |
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about light and shadows. |
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Use a CD-ROM to explore information about the
Sun and Shadows. |
ICT Coverage:
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Resources to support teaching and learning (lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
- Science
Web
ScienceWeb has worksheets and interactives to support teaching.
Costs £20/year to register school.
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Year 4 |
| Units
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Teaching
Activity |
Resources & NC Guidance |
| 4a
Moving and growing |
Humans have bony skeletons inside
their bodies and to raise questions about different bony skeletons.
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Model skeleton(s),
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real bones from different animals – NB, sterilised only
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Secondary sources for skeletons
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Possible museum visit
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Secondary sources for muscle movement
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Muscle models
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X-rays of bones
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Tape measures
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Free
skeleton software - displays the bones which make up a skeleton.
Contains puzzles that will help you learn about the bones and
skeletal systems of different animals.
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| Use CD-ROM to research skeletons and muscles |
Bodywise by
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Children use a ready made database to record body
measurements |
ICT Coverage:
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| Use ICT to construct
the skeleton of a beast.
View bones of a human,
gorilla and baboon.
Looking at picture banks of a variety of
animal skeletons. |
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about moving and growing. |
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Research using the Internet characteristics of
bones and skeletons. |
ICT Coverage:
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Resources to support teaching and learning (lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 4b
Habitats |
Children will begin to understand the concept
of a habitat, how it provides organisms found there with conditions
for life and how animals depend on plants or other animals which
eat plants for food.
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Hand lenses, collecting nets, containers for small animals
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Poster, video, reference, CD ROMs etc of a variety of different habitats in or close to the school
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Plastic containers for investigating preferences of small animals eg woodlice
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Pictures of animals (or real egs), including similar animals eg bees & wasps to group into similar organisms
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Keys of familiar organisms
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Secondary sources for researching food needs of animal from local habitat
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Secondary sources for food chain research
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Use a readymade database to answer
simple questions and to make bar graphs. |
Read made
Minibeast database
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Children could collect information
about minibeasts found and enter it into their own database. |
Blank databases
for Minibeasts
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Children
build a branching database to identify all the animals found in
the local pond.
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| Use a ready
made branching database about minibeasts
Collect and identify different types of woodlice.
Devise their own branching database |
Minibeast
Branching Database (Flexitree)
Decisions 3, Granada
Branch, Flexitree, Softease Branch
Walking with Woodlice branching tree from the Natural History Museum
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips:
Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about habitats. |
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| Take a virtual tour of small animal
habitats |
ICT Coverage:
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| Explore different habitats online |
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| Use a website to explore and discover
the wonderful world of natural habitats (photos, movies and sounds). |
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Use the Intel Microscope for time lapse photography
of e.g.woodlice in a choice chamber. |
ICT Coverage:
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Resources to support teaching and learning (lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 4c
Keeping warm |
Recognize that temperature is a measure. Identify
thermal insulators. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Thermometers
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Containers for water eg beakers, metal cans
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IT temperature sensor (if available)
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Access to a source of ice
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Variety of materials for insulation
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Wooden, plastic and metal spoons
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Metal saucepan with wooden or plastic handle
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Materials / objects for a display of keeping things warm
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Download all for Y4 Units a-f
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Children investigate the insulation
properties of containers |
Number Magic
Detector or Robolab
ICT coverage:
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Children take temperatures, enter into a spreadsheet
and produce a graph. |
RM Number Magic, Excel or Number Box
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about keeping warm. |
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Explore the NASA website to see how
Astronauts stay warm and cool while on the Space Station. |
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Resources to support teaching and learning
(lesson plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 4d
Solids, liquids and how they can be separated
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Learn about the differences between solids and
liquids and recognise that the same material can exist as both
solid and liquid. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Range of measuring jugs, cups, cylinders
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Different shaped clear containers
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Collection of solids, liquids (different viscosity), powders in transparent containers
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Wax, chocolate, butter
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Secondary sources to research molten materials(lava, metals)
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Magnets
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Water wheel or sand wheel
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Sieves, funnels, filters- muslin, paper towels, gauze bandage, blotting paper, fabrics coffee/tea bags
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Marbles
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Solids which behave differently in water – salt, coffee, sugar, flour, plaster of paris, sand, glass, beads, ball bearings, chalk
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Set of cards illustrating everyday processes requiring filtering, dissolving etc to be matched to the
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scientific processes
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Use a website to learn about solids,
liquids and gases. |
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Children use a CD-ROM to explore solids,
liquids and gases. |
ICT Coverage:
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Use a concept map to explore ideas about
melting and dissolving. |
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BBC Science Clips:
Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about solids
and liquids. |
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Use the Intel Microscope to observe
solids (fine powders) that appear to behave as liquid. |
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| Resources to support teaching and learning
(lesson plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 4e
Friction |
Learn that forces can be measured and compared.
Focuses on friction. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Assorted magnets & springs
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Pictures showing springs and magnets to illustrate forces
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Force metres with a range of 0 – 10 N
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Samples of different surfaces – eg wood, carpet, vinyl
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Tall transparent cylinders or other water containers
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0.1 second timers
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large sheet card or corriflute
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Plasticine
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Materials for parachutes
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String
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Download all for Y4 Units a-f
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Children can investigate the friction
of different surfaces and record on an interacative spreadsheet. |
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips:
Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about friction. |
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| Resources to support teaching and learning
(lesson plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 4f
Circuits and conductors |
Circuit needs a power source. A complete circuit
is needed for a device to work. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Drawings of complete and broken circuits
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Batteries of different voltages
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bulbs, bulb holders, buzzers, crocodile clips and insulated wires
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Secondary materials to show the hazards of mains electricity
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A selection of good conducting and insulating materials
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Collection of plugs, wires, cables used in the home
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Secondary resources for researching insulating & conducting materials
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Electrical devices with switches
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Materials for making simple switches
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Download all for Y4 Units a-f
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Children use an online interactive activity to
create circuits. |
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive activity,
quiz and teachers' materials about circuits and conductors. |
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Year 5 |
| Units
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Teaching
Activity |
Resources & NC Guidance |
| 5a
Keeping healthy |
Learn that there are many aspects
to keeping healthy. Children learn about the heart and how heart
beat is affected by exercise. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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A range of secondary sources about food and health
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Articles on one historical discovery about effect of diet on health
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Models or secondary sources to show location of heart & lungs and how they pump blood round the body,
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Model heart to explain its form and function
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Balloon pump / early years water play pump
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Timing devices
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Digital pulse metre (if available)
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Sources of information about drugs
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Spreadsheet, graphing and DTP software
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Download all for Y5 Units a-f
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Use a database to record the nutritional
value of different foods |
ICT Coverage:
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| Research balance diets
using a website
Assessment activity on balanced diets |
ICT Coverage:
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| Manually collect pulse rates (15seconds
x 4 for accuracy) create a graph showing different situations.
A graphing program or spreadsheet could be used to construct a
bar chart. |
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips:
Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about keeping
healthy. |
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Use RM Living Library to reasearch Scurvy using
an interactive worksheet |
 Living
Library (in herts schools only)
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Children keep a record of everything
they eat and drink for a week and use the spreadsheet to investigate
how changes to their eating habits could affect the balance of
their diet. |
Downloadable
Number Magic
ICT Coverage:
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Listen to heartbeats. Each one is different.
Figure out which heart is beating at which speed. |
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| Use a website to explore
facts about the heart
Watch a digital video and complete a quiz
about the heart |
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| Resources to support teaching and learning
(lesson plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 5b
Life cycles |
Learn that plants and animals reproduce as part
of their life cycle and that in every life cycle there are distinct
processes and stages. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Collection of pictures of plants, or real plants, with fruit
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Collection of fruits with seeds
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Secondary sources for seed dispersal research
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Hand lenses/microscopes
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Pictures illustrating the plants from which the seeds come
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Rapidly germinating seeds
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Thermometers
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Containers in which to germinate seeds
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Soil etc to germinate seed in
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Secondary sources of seeds germinating in desert climates
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Examples and pictures of flowers
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Secondary sources showing newly born animals and giving information about gestation periods
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Information about species in danger of extinction- panda, tiger, cheetah
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Download all for Y5 Units a-f
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Look at pictures of flowering plants and investigate
fruits and seeds. |
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Use the Intel Microscope to create time lapse
photography of germination, to examine pollen grains and seeds. |
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| Use a Database to record information about plants. |
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| Children use a website
to help learn about plant life cycles. |
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| View a video clip from a website or
CD ROM |
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BBC Science Clips:
Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about life
cycles. |
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Assessment Activity on Plants |
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| Children research gestation period of different
animals and insert into a ready made database. They analyse the
data and ask questions. |
Information
Workshop Gestation Period Database
ICT coverage:
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| Research information about grass and tree pollens
and the relationship to Hayfever. |
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Resources to support teaching and learning (lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 5c
Gases around us |
Learn that gases are material and can be distinguished
from solids and liquids by their properties. They also learn about
the uses of some important gases and where gases are found. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
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Digital balance or coat hanger
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Balloons
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Sponge
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Marbles/ball bearings
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Soils - dry
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Measuring jugs/cylinders
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Helium balloon, can of fizzy drink, picture of gas cooker
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Secondary sources to research types of gas used in everyday contexts
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Strong perfume/air freshener
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Range of resources to demonstrate different properties of solids, liquids & gases – filled syringes, filled balloons
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Download all for Y5 Units a-f
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Animation about solids, liquids and gases. |
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Use an interactive game to sort solids, liquids
and gases |
- Interactive
sorting game (scroll down to Interactive Activities section).
On Educate the Children, need to register but free.
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about gases around us. |
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Resources to support teaching and learning (lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 5d
Changing state |
Consolidate ideas about changes of state which
can be reversed and use their understanding to explain a range
of familiar phenomena. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
- Kettle/saucepan
- Fast drying/ evaporating liquids – nail varnish, correction fluid
- Apparatus to measure volume
- Thermometers
- Containers of a similar size eg. yoghurt pots, margarine tubs
- Pictures of drying appliances
- Can of soft drink from the freezer
- Ice cubes, cling film
- Graph of water being heated
- IT temperature sensors/ thermometer
- Video and other secondary sources showing the water cycle
- Pictures of a variety of changing state situations or list
- Information re origin of house water supply
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Download all for Y5 Units a-f
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Use the activity sheet to record evaporation
times. Graph included. |
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about changing state. |
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Create a diagram of the water cycle using ready-made
elements. Label the different stages of the water cycle. |
Downloadable MyWorld
activity
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Exploring the various parts of the water cycle
using websites. |
|
| Use temperature sensors, ie Robolab,
LogIT, RM Detector, to monitor temperature changes and create
graphs. For example measure the temperature of melting ice. |
Temperature
sensors.
Downloadable Number
Magic/ Detector activity
ICT Coverage:
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Use an electronic
microscope for time lapse photography i.e. ice cube melting. |
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Resources to support teaching and learning (lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
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| 5e
Earth, sun and moon |
Learn about the shapes and relative sizes of the
Earth, Sun and Moon. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
- Video or other secondary sources of Earth, Sun Moon from space
- Secondary sources giving information about early ideas about the shape of the earth
- Selection of spheres of varying size – see activity for exemplars
- Compass
- Shadow stick
- Globe + strong light source
- Polystyrene balls + torches with powerful beam
- Secondary data about what a year is, the times of sunrise and sunset and appearance of the moon over 28 days
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Download all for Y5 Units a-f
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Explore pictures and videos of the August 1999
eclipse and details about future eclipses. |
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Exploring the universe using the NASA kids website |
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about earth, sun and moon. |
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Use a prepared database of sunset and sunrise
times to identify patterns in the data and present data as graphs. |
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Many children
like to find out about the planets, extending work on this unit
and providing many opportunities for cross-curricular links. A
database of the planets could be created. |
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| Resources to support
teaching and learning (lesson plans, printables and pictures).
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End of unit assessment interactive worksheets |
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| 5f
Changing sounds |
Learn that sounds are produced by vibrations and
that these vibrations travel from the source through a variety
of materials. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
- Selection of musical instruments – making sounds in a variety of ways
- Tapes of sounds getting louder & fainter
- Drum skin and rice
- Elastic bands
- Tuning forks
- Clamp to attach ruler to desk
- cymbal
- Buzzers/ticking clocks
- Variety of materials for muffling sound
- Sound sensor if available
- Video/tape of an orchestra/school band
- Tuned drums / chime bars
- Stringed instruments + elastic bands or nylon thread
- Wide-necked bottles
- Recorders or wind instruments
- Secondary sources providing information about the aspects of sound
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Download all for Y5 Units a-f
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An animation of how we hear. |
ICT Coverage:
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Explore BBC revise wise animation on
what sound is. |
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BBC Science Clips:
Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about changing
sounds. |
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|
Year 6 |
| Units
|
Teaching
Activity |
Resources & NC Guidance |
| 6a
Interdependence and adaptation |
Extend knowledge of the way in which
plants and animals in different habitats depend upon each other
and are suited to their environment. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
- Plant kept in dark for 1-2 weeks (optional)
- Secondary sources showing growing in time-lapse ( eg David Attenborough’s ‘Life of Plants’
- Labels from house and garden plants (optional )
- Packaging from fertilisers
- Information about animals in their local habitats
- Soil samples ( 1 good for plants – the other not so good)
- Hand lenses/microscopes – including digital microscope
- Examples of plants with different types of roots/pictures of different plant roots eg carrot, dandelion, fallen tree, marran grass, seaweed
- Secondary sources showing different habitats
- Keys for animals and plants in chosen habitats
- ICT branching database
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Download all for Y6 Units a-6
|
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Research for information on the Internet
and create a presentation. |
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Activities to explore interdependence and adaptation
of pond animals. |
|
BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about interdependence and
adaptation. |
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Use the Intel Microscope to compare a range of
different soils. |
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Resources to support teaching and
learning (lesson plans, printables and pictures). |
|
| 6b
Micro-organisms |
Learn that there are many very small organisms
called micro-organisms which feed, grow and reproduce and which
may be harmful or beneficial. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
- Secondary sources providing information about micro-organisms
- Information on lives of famous scientists such as Jenner & Pasteur
- Live yeast, dough
- Sealed bag of grass cuttings
- Pictures, packaging of foods the production of which involves micro-organisms
- Mouldy food in sealed bags eg bread, apple, cheese
- Visit from health visitor ( optional)
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Download all for Y6 Units a-6
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Research Pasteur/ Jenner using Living Library
and search engines. Visit Jenner museum website. Create a presentation
of the information. |
ICT Coverage:
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| BBC
Science Clips: Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials
about micro-organisms.
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Discover the many worlds of hidden microbes using
the microbe zoo website |
|
Use the Intel Microscope to look at moulds and
yeast budding. Create a presentation to show findings of an investigation. |
ICT Coverage:
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Resources to support teaching and learning (lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
|
| 6c
More about dissolving |
Consolidates and extend children's understanding
of what happens when a variety of solids dissolve. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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|
Resources Needed
- Filter and sieves for ‘dirty’ water containing undissolved and dissolved solids
- Containers in which evaporation can take place
- Distilled water, ‘sea’ water, water, coloured water
- Apparatus for boiling salty water
- Cold surfaces for condensing
- Thermometers
- Apparatus for measuring volumes
- Timers
- Scoops for measuring amount of solid
- Samples of sugar, salt etc with different grain sizes
- Samples of artificial sweeteners
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Download all for Y6 Units a-6
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|
|
Investigate the times taken for different solids
to dissolve in cold and hot water, enter findings in a spreadsheet
and present graphically. Make repeated measurements. |
Downloadable Number
Magic template and lesson plan
Use temperature sensors
ICT Coverage:
|
Use the Intel Microscope to look at crystallisation
in a saturated salt solution. |
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Resources to support teaching and
learning (lesson plans, printables and pictures). |
 Lesson
ideas using ICT about dissolving
|
| 6d
Reversible and irreversible changes |
Bring together and consolidate work that children
have done before on reversible changes. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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Resources Needed
- Dissolvable/ undissolvable materials eg sand, flour, baking powder, powder paint, salt, plaster of Paris, Andrews salts
- Solids which react with water eg, vinegar, bicarbonate of soda, lemon juice, washing soda, cement
- Items that change when they are heated eg ice, cake mix, raw egg, dough, clay, chocolate
- Materials which burn eg paper, wax, twigs, small pieces of fabric
- Fire hazard warning labels from furniture
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Download all for Y6 Units a-6
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|
|
Materials and their
properties revision quiz PowerPoint.
Use PowerPoint to teach how to write a
conclusion. Linked to investigation into time taken for an ice
cube to melt in water of different temperatures. |
ICT Coverage:
|
Use the Intel Microscope to look at simple chemical
reactions ie vinegar and bicarbonate of soda. |
|
BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about reversible and irreversible
changes. |
|
Resources to support teaching and learning (lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
|
| 6e
Forces in action |
Apply their knowledge of a variety of forces,
including magnetic attraction, gravitational attraction and friction.
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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|
Resources Needed
- Forcemeters - variety of range
- Objects which can be suspended from forcemeter, immersed in water, pulled
- Elastic bands, magnets
- Weak and strong springs
- Weights
- Paper parachute
- Metre sticks/tape measures
- Plasticine, cotton wool, iron object, netball, apple
- Secondary sources about gravity on the Earth and the Moon
- 0.1s timers
- globe
- Graphing, simulation and spreadsheet software
|
Download all for Y6 Units a-6
|
|
|
Record results of spinner investigation (How does
the number of paper clips affect the time the spinner takes to
fall?) on a spreadsheet and use to present data on a line graph
and interpret findings. |
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about forces in action. |
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| Children can weigh objects
in air and in water and use a spreadsheet to calculate and graph
averages.
|
Any spreadsheet program
ie Number Magic, Excel, Textease spreadsheet.
|
| 6f
How we see things |
Learn that mirrors and shiny surfaces alter the
direction in which light travels and that when they see objects,
light enters the eye. |
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Keywords |
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Key Learning Opportunities |
|
|
Resources Needed
- Torches, some with powerful beams and variable size
- Small mirrors
- Selection of shiny/polished and unpolished/dull materials or surfaces eg mirrors, polished metals, Perspex, gloss & matt painted surfaces, polished wood
- Opaque objects for shadow formation
- Metre stick/tape measures
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Download all for Y6 Units a-6
|
|
|
Use light sensors, ie Robolab, LogIT, RM Detector,
to measure and record reflected light from a variety of materials.
Present results in a table and a graph. Interpret findings and
draw conclusions. |
Light sensors
Downloadable Number
Magic/ Detector activity and lesson plan
ICT Coverage:
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BBC Science Clips: Interactive
activity, quiz and teachers' materials about how we see things. |
|
Resources to support teaching and learning (lesson
plans, printables and pictures). |
|
| 6g
Changing circuits |
Consolidate children's knowledge of materials
which are electrical conductors. |
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|
Keywords |
|
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Key Learning Opportunities |
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|
Resources Needed
- Batteries of different voltages, wires, bulbs and their holders, electric motors – a wide range of components
- Made up circuits
- Fuse wires of different thickness and different materials
- Circuit diagrams of ‘real’ systems eg. household appliances
|
Download all for Y6 Units a-6
|
|
|
Explore circuits using interactive website |
 Anglia
Campus |
BBC Science Clips:
Interactive activity, quiz and teachers' materials about changing
circuits. |
|
Resources to support teaching and learning
(lesson plans, printables and pictures). |
|
| 5/6h
Enquiry in environmental and technological contexts
|
Extending children's investigative work. |
|
|
Resources Needed
- ICT data-handling package
- Apparatus for measuring length
- Wires, buzzers, lamps for circuit construction
- Aluminium foil
- Sponge, carpet or other soft insulating materials
|
Download all for Y6 Units a-6
|
|
|
Investigate dandelion habitats - children
collect data about dandelions, enter it into a database and then
anaylse it, creating graphs to help them explore their questions. |
Downloadable
database template
ICT Coverage:
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General Resources |
| Units
|
Teaching
Activity |
Resources & NC Guidance |
General
|
Promoting more effective teaching of science and a range of materials to assist in curriculum planning are available for loan to Hertfordshire teachers. |
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The Great Plant Hunt
Are you using your free primary science resources? |
Enjoy fun and free educational activities in the classroom, online and outdoors. There are plenty of things to see and do now or you can plan the project into your spring and summer term activities.
The project is clearly linked to the national curriculum and can be used as a resource to link your teaching to the theme of ‘Earth’ for National Science and Engineering Week (12-21 March 2010) and the International Year of Biodiversity in 2010.
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Science Challenges
Practical activities for able pupils in KS2 Sample activities from the publication. |
These materials have been developed in response to two identified needs. Firstly teachers are reporting that there are few resources to support pupils who have reached standards exceeding national expectations. Secondly, Ofsted reports have frequently identified that the most able pupils are insufficiently challenged and that their rate of progress is unsatisfactory. This pack of activities will help teachers of higher-attaining pupils to provide suitable work for them within Key Stage 2.
The activities are aimed at Key Stage 2 pupils, mainly in Years 5 and 6, who already have a secure understanding of the basic knowledge set out within the National Curriculum Programmes of Study.
Find out more... |
Science for High
Flier
A new publication to challenge able pupils |
- Extends and enriches the Science QCA units for Key Stages
1 & 2
- Provides key questions and high expectation outcomes
- Develops thinking skills
- Will also provide challenge for more able pupils in mixed
age classes
Find
out more... |
Teaching Scientific Enquiry |
This is an online version
of the TSE CD supplied to schools. 
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Inset
for Teachers
PowerPoint presentations that can be used or adapted
for Inset on ICT in Science |
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General
web sites
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These general web sites can be
used for further science resources. |
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Word 2003
Executable
(*.exe)
External
web links (www)
Information
workshop (iws)
