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Ages 4-6
What am I for? – Body Parts and Senses
What am I for? – Body Parts and Senses
Outcome: I can explain the function of my body parts.
Stick Man – The Seasons
Stick Man – The Seasons
Outcome: I can re-enact the story of Stick Man and show the seasons through my actions.
The Story of a Seed – Plant Lifecycle
The Story of a Seed – Plant Lifecycle
Outcome: I can explain how plants grow and that they need water and sunlight and air.
Sophie’s Squash – Instructions for looking after a baby
Sophie’s Squash – Instructions for looking after a baby
Outcome: I can explain what humans need to stay alive.
Explorers – Describing the Features of Plants
Explorers – Describing the Features of Plants
Outcome: I can describe the features of a plant and its leaves.
Jasper the Spider – Features of a Spider
Jasper the Spider – Features of a Spider
Outcome: I can describe the features of a spider as compared to an insect.
Mary Anning – Comparing Common Animals
Mary Anning – Comparing Common Animals
Outcome: I can describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals.
Are you my mother? – Body Parts
Are you my mother? – Body Parts
Outcome: I can explain how two animals differ in terms of body parts.
Dinosaur Park – Carnivore, herbivore and food chains
Dinosaur Park – Carnivore, herbivore and food chains
Outcome: I know carnivores and herbivores have different teeth and that plants and animals can be organised into a food chain.
Why Won’t the Potato Talk to me? – Dead, Alive or Non-Living
Why Won’t the Potato Talk to me? – Dead, Alive or Non-Living
Outcome: I know that some objects have never been alive, some are living, others were once alive but aren’t anymore.
Ages 7-9
Sailing, Sticking, Shooting, Soaring, Swallowed Seeds – Seed Dispersal
Sailing, Sticking, Shooting, Soaring, Swallowed Seeds – Seed Dispersal
Outcome: To be able to identify and explain the different ways seeds travel away from their parent plant.
A Duck Billed Platy-what? – Classification
A Duck Billed Platy-what? – Classification
Outcome: To know that living things are put into groups based on their characteristics. When an animal doesn’t fit exactly into that group, use knowledge of classification to suggest a sensible choice of group in which to place that animal.
Best in Show – Classification
Best in Show – Classification
Outcome: To be able to recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways.
Human Exhibition – Human Lifecycle
Human Exhibition – Human Lifecycle
Outcome: To be able to describe the changes as humans develop to old age.
Pollination Day – Pollination, Germination, Seed Dispersal
Pollination Day – Pollination, Germination, Seed Dispersal
Outcome: To review the topic of flowering plant lifecycles , and use relevant vocabulary, in the context of a play script.
This is Your Life – Lifecycles
This is Your Life – Lifecycles
Outcome: To be able to describe the differences in the life cycles of a human, an amphibian, an insect and a bird.
Force of Nature! – Seed Dispersal and Forces
Force of Nature! – Seed Dispersal and Forces
Outcome: I can identify the forces at play in the way seeds disperse.
The Forgetful Bee – Pollination
The Forgetful Bee – Pollination
Outcome: To understand the process of pollination and the part flowers play in the lifecycle of a flowering plant.
There Goes my Lunch! – Digestive System
There Goes my Lunch! – Digestive System
Outcome: I can describe the simple functions of the basic party of the digestive system in humans.
Digest This! – Digestion
Digest This! – Digestion
Outcome: I can describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans.
Ages 10-12
Lifestyle Makeover – Exercise and Diet
Lifestyle Makeover – Exercise and Diet
Outcome: To be able to recognise the impact of diet, exercise and lifestyle on the way bodies function.
Human Exhibition – Human Lifecycle
Human Exhibition – Human Lifecycle
Outcome: To be able to describe the changes as humans develop to old age.
Drink Me? – Effect of Drugs on Health
Drink Me? – Effect of Drugs on Health
Outcome: I understand that putting something unknown into our bodies is a very risky thing to do.
The Broad Street Pump – Microbes
The Broad Street Pump – Microbes
Outcome: I can explain how John Snow’s evidence about the Broad Street Pump enabled him to work out that there were microbes in the water.
Pollination Day – Pollination, Germination, Seed Dispersal
Pollination Day – Pollination, Germination, Seed Dispersal
Outcome: To review the topic of flowering plant lifecycles , and use relevant vocabulary, in the context of a play script.
This is Your Life – Lifecycles
This is Your Life – Lifecycles
Outcome: To be able to describe the differences in the life cycles of a human, an amphibian, an insect and a bird.
Molliebird misconceptions – Inheritance and Evolution
Molliebird misconceptions – Inheritance and Evolution
Outcome: I can explain why changing ourselves doesn’t change what our children look like.
Insect Documentary – Insect Lifecycles
Insect Documentary – Insect Lifecycles
Outcome: I can explain (narrate) the sequence of insect life cycles.
Meet Eohippus – Evolution and Inheritance
Meet Eohippus – Evolution and Inheritance
Outcome: I can identify how an animal is adapted to suit their environment and I know that this may lead to evolution over time.
William Harvey Explains – Circulation
William Harvey Explains – Circulation
Outcome: I can explain that the heart is a pump which pumps to the lungs and then body: the blood returning to the heart to be pumped through the lungs again.
