1. Primary Curriculum
  2. Science
  3. Opportunities

Opportunities

Key Stage 1 Key Stage 2
Working scientifically

Across all year groups scientific knowledge and skills should be learned by working scientifically.

Biology

Plants
• Identify, classify and describe their basic structure.
• Observe and describe growth and conditions for growth.
Habitats
• Look at the suitability of environments and at food chains.
Animals and humans
• Identify, classify and observe.
• Look at growth, basic needs, exercise, food and hygiene.

Plants
• Look at the function of parts of flowering plants, requirements of growth, water
transportation in plants, life cycles and seed dispersal.
Evolution and inheritance
• Look at resemblance in offspring.
• Look at changes in animals over time.
• Look at adaptation to environments.
• Look at differences in offspring.
• Look at adaptation and evolution.
• Look at changes to the human skeleton over time.
Animals and humans
• Look at nutrition, transportation of water and nutrients in the body, and the muscle and
skeleton system of humans and animals.
• Look at the digestive system in humans.
• Look at teeth.
• Look at the human circulatory system.
All living things
• Identify and name plants and animals
• Look at classification keys.
• Look at the life cycle of animals and plants.
• Look at classification of plants, animals and micro-organisms.
• Look at reproduction in plants and animals, and human growth and changes.
• Look at the effect of diet, exercise and drugs.

Chemistry

Materials
• Identify, name, describe, classify, compare properties and
changes.
• Look at the practical uses of everyday materials.

Rocks and fossils
• Compare and group rocks and describe the formation of fossils.
States of matter
• Look at solids, liquids and gases, changes of state, evaporation, condensation and the water cycle.
Materials
• Examine the properties of materials using various tests.
• Look at solubility and recovering dissolved substances.
• Separate mixtures.
• Examine changes to materials that create new materials that are usually not reversible.

Physics

Forces
• Describe basic movements.
Earth and space
• Observe seasonal changes.

Light
• Look at sources, seeing, reflections and shadows.
• Explain how light appears to travel in straight lines and how this affects seeing and shadows.
Sound
• Look at sources, vibration, volume and pitch.
Electricity
• Look at appliances, circuits, lamps, switches, insulators and conductors.
• Look at circuits, the effect of the voltage in cells and the resistance and conductivity of materials.
Forces and magnets
• Look at contact and distant forces, attraction and repulsion, comparing and grouping materials.
• Look at poles, attraction and repulsion.
• Look at the effect of gravity and drag forces.
• Look at transference of forces in gears, pulleys, levers and springs.
Earth and space

• Look at the movement of the Earth and the Moon

•Explain day and night