Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Cambridge Primary: Science Curriculum (Age 6)

SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY

Ideas and evidence
• Collect evidence by making observations when trying to answer a science question.
• Use first hand experience, e.g. observe melting ice.
• Use simple information sources.

Plan investigative work

• Ask questions and suggest ways to answer them.
• Predict what will happen before deciding what to do.
• Recognize that a test or comparison may be unfair.

Obtain and present evidence
• Make suggestions for collecting evidence.
• Talk about risks and how to avoid danger.
• Make and record observations.
• Take simple measurements.
• Use a variety of ways to tell others what happened.

Consider evidence and approach
• Make comparisons.
• Identify simple patterns and associations.
• Talk about predictions (orally and in text), the outcome and why this happened.
• Review and explain what happened.

BIOLOGY

Living things in their environment
• Identify similarities and differences between local environments and know about some of the ways in which these affect the animals and plants that are found there.
• Understand ways to care for the environment. Secondary sources can be used.
• Observe and talk about their observation of the weather, recording reports of weather data.

CHEMISTRY

Material properties

• Recognise some types of rocks and the uses of different rocks.
• Know that some materials occur naturally and others are man-made.
Material changes
• Know how the shapes of some materials can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting and/or stretching.
• Explore and describe the way some everyday materials change when they are heated or cooled.
• Recognise that some materials can dissolve in water.

PHYSICS

Light and dark
• Identify different light sources including the sun.
• Know that darkness is the absence of light.
• Be able to identify shadows.

Electricity
• Recognize the components of simple circuits involving cells (batteries).
• Know how a switch can be used to break a circuit.

The Earth and beyond
• Explore how the sun appears to move during the day and how shadows change.
• Model how the spin of the Earth leads to day and night, e.g. with different sized balls and a torch.

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