Steeton Primary School

Science KS2

Working scientifically

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

Biology

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, 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 and exercise and drugs.

Chemistry

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

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.

In this section

• EYFS
• KS1
• Lower KS2
• Upper KS2