Chapter library

Chapter 1: Where the first civilizations began: rivers and cities

• Can name four of the first civilizations and the rivers they grew up beside

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 2: When the first civilizations began: a BC timeline

• Can put the first civilizations in time order using BC dates

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 3: The River Nile: floods, farming and life

• Can explain how the River Nile and its yearly flood helped the Egyptians farm and live

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 4: Pharaohs: the rulers of Ancient Egypt

• Can describe who the pharaohs were, what they did, and name some famous ones

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 5: Pyramids: why and how they were built

• Can explain that pyramids were tombs for pharaohs and how workers built them

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 6: Mummies: why and how Egyptians made them

• Can explain why Egyptians made mummies and put the steps for making one in order

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 7: Hieroglyphs: reading Egyptian picture writing

• Can explain how hieroglyphs work and read simple words written in them

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 1: Where and when: Ancient Greece, city-states and BC dates

• Can find Ancient Greece on a map, explain that it was made up of city-states, and put Greek events in order on a BC timeline

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 2: Greek daily life: homes, food, the agora, Athens and Sparta

• Can describe Greek homes, food, the agora and school, and say how life in Athens and Sparta was different

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 3: The first Olympic Games at Olympia

• Can explain when and where the first Olympic Games were held, who took part, the main events and the prize

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 4: Democracy in Athens: the Assembly, voting and ostracism

• Can explain what democracy means, who could vote in Athens, how they voted, and how it compares with voting in the UK today

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 5: Greek ideas: gods, myths, theatre and great thinkers

• Can name some Greek gods and what they ruled, describe comedy and tragedy plays, and match thinkers like Socrates, Archimedes and Hippocrates to their ideas

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 6: Greek influence on the western world today

• Can give examples of Greek influence today, such as columns on buildings, Greek words, the Olympics, theatre, medicine and democracy

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 1: Where the first civilisations appeared: life by great rivers

• Can say where the first civilisations appeared and why they grew up beside great rivers

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 2: When the first civilisations appeared: a BC timeline to the Shang

• Can put the first civilisations in time order using BC dates

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 3: Shang bronze: how it was made and used

• Can explain how the Shang made bronze, cast it in clay moulds and what they used it for

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 4: Oracle bones: how the Shang asked their ancestors

• Can explain how oracle bones were used to ask questions, and why they matter so much to historians

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 5: Daily life in the Shang Dynasty: kings, farmers and Fu Hao

• Can describe how daily life was different for kings, nobles, craftworkers, farmers and slaves

Years 3–6 history

Chapter 1: Five animal groups: naming fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals

• Can name common animals and pets, such as a goldfish, frog, newt, snake, robin, duck, cow and hamster
• Can say whether a common animal is a fish, an amphibian, a reptile, a bird or a mammal, using body clues

Year 1 science

Chapter 2: Body coverings: fur, feathers, scales and smooth, damp skin

• Can describe an animal's body covering as fur or hair, feathers, scales, or smooth, damp skin

Year 1 science

Chapter 3: Body parts: legs, wings, fins, tails and beaks

• Can name and count body parts such as legs, wings, fins, tails, gills and beaks, and say what they help an animal do

Year 1 science

Chapter 4: Sorting animals into fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals using body clues

• Can say whether a common animal is a fish, an amphibian, a reptile, a bird or a mammal, using body clues

Year 1 science Year 1 science

Chapter 5: Pets: naming pets and comparing how their bodies are built

• Can say what is the same and what is different about how two animals are built, including pets
• Can name common animals and pets, such as a goldfish, frog, newt, snake, robin, duck, cow and hamster

Year 1 science Year 1 science

Chapter 1: What do living things need?

• Can explain that animals and plants need food, water, air, shelter and the right temperature to survive

Chapter 2: A habitat is a home

• Can explain that animals and plants need food, water, air, shelter and the right temperature to survive
• Can match animals to habitats that suit them, like a polar bear to the Arctic and a camel to the desert

Chapter 3: The right home

• Can match animals to habitats that suit them, like a polar bear to the Arctic and a camel to the desert

Chapter 4: Tiny homes

• Can find minibeasts in microhabitats, like under a log, and explain why they live there

Chapter 5: Food chains

• Can build a simple food chain, such as grass, rabbit, fox, and say who eats whom

Chapter 6: Alive, dead or never alive?

• Can sort things into living, dead (once alive) and never alive

Chapter 1: The rabbit

• Can describe which animal parents feed and look after their young
• Can name and order the stages in the life cycles of a rabbit, a frog, a butterfly and a robin
• Can tell which animals lay eggs and which give birth to live young that drink milk

Chapter 2: The frog

• Can explain metamorphosis: how frogs and butterflies change completely as they grow
• Can name and order the stages in the life cycles of a rabbit, a frog, a butterfly and a robin

Chapter 3: The butterfly

• Can explain metamorphosis: how frogs and butterflies change completely as they grow
• Can name and order the stages in the life cycles of a rabbit, a frog, a butterfly and a robin

Chapter 4: The robin

• Can describe which animal parents feed and look after their young
• Can name and order the stages in the life cycles of a rabbit, a frog, a butterfly and a robin
• Can tell which animals lay eggs and which give birth to live young that drink milk

Chapter 1: Offspring: animals, including humans, have babies

• Can match baby animals, including human babies, to their parents and knows that babies are called offspring

Year 2 science

Chapter 2: Names of offspring: kitten, puppy, lamb, calf and more

• Can name baby animals, such as kitten, puppy, lamb, calf, foal, chick, cygnet and joey

Year 2 science

Chapter 3: Humans grow into adults: baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult

• Can put the stages of growing up in order: baby, toddler, child, teenager, adult

Year 2 science

Chapter 4: Do offspring look like their parents? Some do, some don't

• Can say which baby animals look like their parents and which look very different, like tadpoles and caterpillars

Year 2 science

Chapter 5: Life cycles: animals grow from eggs and babies into adults

• Can put simple life cycles in order: egg, chick, chicken; frogspawn, tadpole, froglet, frog; egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly

Year 2 science

Chapter 1: What animals eat: sorting plant food and meat food

• Can sort animal food into plants and meat, knowing that fish, worms and bugs are animals too

Year 1 science

Chapter 2: Herbivores: animals that eat only plants

• Can name common animals that are herbivores, which eat only plants, such as cows, rabbits and elephants

Year 1 science

Chapter 3: Carnivores: animals that eat only meat

• Can name common animals that are carnivores, which eat only meat, such as lions, sharks and owls

Year 1 science

Chapter 4: Omnivores: animals that eat plants and meat

• Can name common animals that are omnivores, which eat plants and meat, such as pigs, bears and people

Year 1 science

Chapter 5: Sorting animals into carnivores, herbivores and omnivores

• Can sort a mix of common animals into carnivores, herbivores and omnivores and say what each one eats

Year 1 science

Chapter 1: Grouping living things in different ways

• Can sort the same living things into groups in different ways, using rules and Venn diagrams

Year 4 science

Chapter 2: Vertebrates and invertebrates: animal groups

• Can sort animals into vertebrates and invertebrates, and then into smaller groups such as mammals, birds, insects and spiders

Year 4 science

Chapter 3: Flowering and non-flowering plants

• Can sort animals into vertebrates and invertebrates, and then into smaller groups such as mammals, birds, insects and spiders
• Can sort plants into flowering plants (including grasses and trees) and non-flowering plants such as ferns and mosses

Year 4 science

Chapter 4: Building a key with yes/no questions

• Can choose yes or no questions about things you can see or count, which split a group of living things in two
• Can follow a branching key or a number key, one question at a time, to identify and name a living thing

Year 4 science

Chapter 5: Using branching keys and number keys

• Can follow a branching key or a number key, one question at a time, to identify and name a living thing

Year 4 science

Chapter 6: Making your own classification key

• Can choose yes or no questions about things you can see or count, which split a group of living things in two
• Can follow a branching key or a number key, one question at a time, to identify and name a living thing

Year 4 science Year 4 science

Chapter 1: Producers: green plants that make their own food

• Can explain that producers are green plants that make their own food using sunlight, and spot the producer at the start of a food chain

Year 4 science

Chapter 2: Food chain arrows: showing what is food for what

• Can build a food chain that starts with a producer, with arrows pointing from the food to the animal that eats it

Year 4 science

Chapter 3: Predators and prey: hunters, the hunted and animals that are both

• Can identify the predators and prey in a food chain, including animals that are both predator and prey

Year 4 science

Chapter 4: Constructing food chains in different habitats

• Can build a food chain that starts with a producer, with arrows pointing from the food to the animal that eats it
• Can explain that producers are green plants that make their own food using sunlight, and spot the producer at the start of a food chain

Year 4 science

Chapter 5: Interpreting food chains: what eats what, and what happens if something changes

• Can read a food chain to say what eats what, and explain what might happen if one living thing in the chain disappeared

Year 4 science

Chapter 1: Sunrise

• Can explain that plants are producers that make food using sunlight, and animals are consumers that eat

Chapter 2: Hungry rabbit

• Can explain that plants are producers that make food using sunlight, and animals are consumers that eat

Chapter 3: Here comes a fox

• Can build a food chain in order, starting with a plant and following the arrows
• Can name predators and prey and say who eats whom

Chapter 4: Up the oak tree

• Can build a food chain in order, starting with a plant and following the arrows
• Can name predators and prey and say who eats whom

Chapter 5: What if?

• Can explain what happens to the rest of a food chain if one part disappears

Chapter 1: Habitats and microhabitats: big homes and tiny homes

• Can say what a habitat and a microhabitat are, and sort big homes like a pond from tiny homes like under a stone

Year 2 science

Chapter 2: Under logs and stones: finding and naming minibeasts

• Can say where to find minibeasts, such as woodlice under logs and stones, ladybirds on leaves and water boatmen in a pond
• Can name common minibeasts, such as a woodlouse, centipede, snail, ladybird and pond skater
• Can name plants in their habitats, such as moss on a log, nettles and daisies in a garden and water lilies in a pond

Year 2 science

Chapter 3: On plants and flowers: naming minibeasts and plants

• Can say where to find minibeasts, such as woodlice under logs and stones, ladybirds on leaves and water boatmen in a pond
• Can name common minibeasts, such as a woodlouse, centipede, snail, ladybird and pond skater
• Can name plants in their habitats, such as moss on a log, nettles and daisies in a garden and water lilies in a pond

Year 2 science

Chapter 4: Pond habitat: naming water minibeasts and plants

• Can say where to find minibeasts, such as woodlice under logs and stones, ladybirds on leaves and water boatmen in a pond
• Can name common minibeasts, such as a woodlouse, centipede, snail, ladybird and pond skater
• Can name plants in their habitats, such as moss on a log, nettles and daisies in a garden and water lilies in a pond

Year 2 science