Autumn 1

Living Things and their Habitat

-Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including microorganisms, plants, and animals

-All is One: Cells

Cells are building blocks of living things

Autumn 2

Living Things and their Habitat

-Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics

-All is One: Genes and DNA

Cells are instructed by DNA molecules

-Understand that DNA carries the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, and function of all known living organisms and many viruses

Spring 1

Animals Including Humans

-Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, lungs, blood vessels and blood

-All is One: Blood Cells

-White blood cells are the cells of the immune system and they are produced in the bone marrow

-Red blood cells deliver oxygen to the body tissues via blood flow through the circulatory system

Spring 2

Animals Including Humans

-Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way bodies function

-Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans

Summer 1

Light

-Recognise that light travels on a straight line

-Use the idea that light travels on a straight line to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into our eyes

-Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to objects and then to our eyes

-Use the idea that light travels on straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them

-Understand that light is made of photons, which are a basic unit of nature called elementary particle

-Periodic table contains 118 elements that gives different colours of light

Summer 2

Evolution and Inheritance

-Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago

-Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents

-Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution

Electricity

-All Is One: time line of the universe

-Atoms are building block of universe

-Atoms differ only by the number of their protons

-The movement of electric charges is an electric current and produces a magnetic field

-the presence of electric charges produces an electric field

-Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

-Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, loudness of buzzers and on/off position of switches

-Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit

-Understand the mechanism and structure of a simple device