Chapter library

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

Chapter 1: The 7 continents: names and places on a world map

• Can find each of the 7 continents on a world map
• Can name all 7 continents of the world

Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 2: The 5 oceans: names and places on a world map

• Can name the 5 oceans and find them on a world map

Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 3: Using a world map: labelling continents and oceans

• Can find each of the 7 continents on a world map
• Can name the 5 oceans and find them on a world map
• Can use a world map, an atlas and a globe to find continents and oceans

Years 1–2 geography Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 4: Using a globe: finding continents and oceans on a round Earth

• Can use a world map, an atlas and a globe to find continents and oceans

Years 1–2 geography Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 5: The United Kingdom and its 4 countries in an atlas, map and globe

• Can find the United Kingdom on a map, in an atlas and on a globe, and name its 4 countries
• Can use a world map, an atlas and a globe to find continents and oceans

Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 1: What is a desert? A biome with very little rain

• Can explain that a desert gets less than 250 mm of rain or snow a year, and that deserts can be hot or cold, sandy, rocky or icy

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 2: Where are deserts? Climate zones, the Equator and the tropics

• Can find the world's main deserts on a world map and explain that many hot deserts lie near the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 3: Desert climate: hot days, cold nights and very little rain

• Can describe a hot desert's climate: very little rain, clear skies, hot days and cold nights

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 4: Desert vegetation: how plants survive with little water

• Can explain how desert plants survive, such as cactus stems that store water, spines, waxy skin and long or wide roots

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 5: Desert animals: surviving heat and little water

• Can explain how desert animals survive the heat and lack of water, such as a camel's fat-filled hump, a fennec fox's big ears and coming out at night

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 6: People in deserts: water, clothes, homes and travel

• Can explain how people live in deserts: finding water at oases, wearing loose light-coloured clothes, building thick-walled homes and moving with their animals

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 1: What is a fossil?

• Can explain what a fossil is and spot things that are not fossils

Chapter 2: How fossils form

• Can explain, step by step, how a living thing gets trapped in rock and turns into a fossil

Chapter 3: Kinds of fossils

• Can sort body fossils from trace fossils, and say what a mould and a cast are

Chapter 4: Fossil detective

• Can use fossils as clues about what lived long ago and what places were like

Chapter 5: Mary Anning's discoveries

• Can tell the story of Mary Anning and why her fossil finds mattered

Chapter 1: Homes in the UK: a seaside cottage for cool, rainy, windy weather

• Can explain how homes in the UK are built to suit cool, rainy, windy weather

Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 2: Homes in Kenya: a coast home for hot, sunny weather

• Can explain how homes on the coast of Kenya are built to stay cool in hot, sunny weather and dry in the rainy season

Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 3: Same and different: comparing homes and places in the UK and Kenya

• Can say what is the same and what is different about homes and places in the UK and Kenya

Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 4: Human features: house, farm, shop, office and factory

• Can name a house, farm, shop, office and factory and say what each one is for

Years 1–2 geography Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 5: Village, town and city: places where people live

• Can tell a village, a town and a city apart and put them in order of size

Years 1–2 geography Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 6: By the sea: what a harbour is and what a port is

• Can say that a harbour is calm, sheltered water where boats stay safe and a port is where big ships load and unload goods

Years 1–2 geography Years 1–2 geography

Chapter 1: Types of settlement: hamlet, village, town and city

• Can put hamlets, villages, towns and cities in order of size and say what each one has

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 2: Settlement sites: water, food, wood and safety

• Can choose a good site for a settlement and explain why, thinking about water, food, wood, shelter and safety

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 3: Why settlements grow: natural resources and trade links

• Can explain how trade links, jobs and natural resources help a settlement grow
• Can name natural resources (energy, food, minerals and water) and explain that different places have different ones, so places trade

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 4: Land use: homes, shops, factories, farms and parks

• Can sort land into homes, shops, factories, farms, parks and transport, and say where new things should go

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 1: Melting and freezing: heating and cooling change state

• Can explain how heating makes materials melt, and cooling makes them freeze

Year 4 science

Chapter 2: Melting and freezing points: measuring in °C

• Can measure and research the temperatures when materials melt, freeze and boil, in °C

Year 4 science

Chapter 3: Boiling and evaporation: liquid to gas

• Can explain how boiling and evaporation turn liquid water into a gas
• Can measure and research the temperatures when materials melt, freeze and boil, in °C

Year 4 science Year 4 science

Chapter 4: Evaporation and temperature: faster when it's warmer

• Can explain how temperature changes how fast water evaporates

Year 4 science

Chapter 5: Condensation: gas cooling back into a liquid

• Can explain how boiling and evaporation turn liquid water into a gas
• Can explain how condensation turns a gas back into a liquid when it cools
• Can explain how heating makes materials melt, and cooling makes them freeze

Year 4 science

Chapter 6: The water cycle: evaporation and condensation

• Can explain the part evaporation and condensation play in the water cycle
• Can explain how temperature changes how fast water evaporates

Year 4 science

Chapter 1: Natural resources: energy, food, minerals and water

• Can sort natural resources into energy, food, minerals and water, and say what we use energy for

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 2: Fossil fuels: how coal, oil and natural gas formed

• Can explain that coal formed from swamp plants, and oil and gas from tiny sea creatures, squeezed underground over millions of years
• Can sort energy resources into renewable (never runs out) and non-renewable (will run out one day)

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 3: Renewable energy: sun, wind, water and heat from the Earth

• Can choose a good place for solar, wind, hydro, tidal and geothermal power
• Can sort energy resources into renewable (never runs out) and non-renewable (will run out one day)

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 4: Distribution of energy resources around the world

• Can describe how energy resources are spread unevenly around the world, and name places with lots of oil, coal, sunshine, wind, hydro and geothermal energy

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 5: Trade links: how countries import and export energy

• Can explain importing and exporting, how energy travels by ship, pipeline and cable, and where the UK gets its energy

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 1: What trade is: buying and selling goods and services

• Can explain that trade is buying and selling, and tell goods (things you can touch) from services (things people do for you)

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 2: Economic activity: primary, secondary and tertiary jobs

• Can sort jobs into primary (taking raw materials from nature), secondary (making things) and tertiary (services) economic activity

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 3: Imports and exports: why countries trade and who the UK trades with

• Can explain imports (goods coming into a country) and exports (goods sent out), and why countries trade: different climates, natural resources and skills

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 4: Supply chains: how products travel from factories to our shops

• Can describe how products travel from factories to our shops: made from parts from many countries, shipped in containers to a port, then taken by lorry or train to warehouses and shops

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 5: Fair trade: fair prices for farmers and workers

• Can explain what fair trade is: farmers and workers get a fair minimum price, plus extra Premium money for their community

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 1: Where rainforests grow: the equator, tropics and climate zones

• Can find where rainforests grow on a world map: near the equator, in the hot tropical climate zone

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 2: Rainforest climate: a hot, wet tropical biome

• Can explain what a biome is and describe the rainforest climate as hot and wet all year

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 3: Rainforest layers: emergent, canopy, understory and forest floor

• Can name the four rainforest layers in order (emergent, canopy, understory, forest floor) and say what each is like

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 4: Rainforest plants: drip tips, buttress roots, lianas and epiphytes

• Can explain how drip tips, buttress roots, lianas and epiphytes help rainforest plants survive

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 5: Rainforest animals and the layers they live in

• Can match rainforest animals to the layer they live in and explain why the canopy is the busiest layer

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 6: Why rainforests matter: rain, homes, food and protection

• Can explain why rainforests matter (rain, homes for wildlife, food, medicines and storing carbon) and how we can help protect them

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 1: How much of Earth's water is fresh and usable

• Can explain how much of Earth's water is fresh: almost all water is salty sea water, most fresh water is frozen or hidden underground, and only a tiny splash is in rivers and lakes

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 2: Why fresh water is shared out unevenly around the world

• Can explain why fresh water is shared out unevenly: rain falls unevenly, deserts get very little, and places with lots of people must share their water between more people

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 3: How water is collected and stored: rivers, reservoirs and underground

• Can describe how water is collected and stored: taken from rivers, stored in reservoirs behind dams, and pumped up from rocks underground

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 4: How water is cleaned at a water treatment works

• Can put the cleaning steps in the right order: screens catch big bits, dirt clumps and settles, sand filters the rest, then a little chlorine kills germs

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 5: How clean water is piped to our homes, and where it goes next

• Can describe the whole journey from cloud to tap: clean water is pumped up to a service reservoir on a hill, flows downhill through pipes to our taps, and used water goes to a sewage works

Years 3–6 geography

Chapter 1: Where rivers begin

• Can explain where a river’s water comes from and what its source is

Chapter 2: Downhill all the way

• Can name the parts of a river, from its source to its mouth, and knows rivers always flow downhill

Chapter 3: Pick up, carry, drop

• Can explain how rivers wear away, carry and drop rocks and soil

Chapter 4: The mountain stream

• Can explain how a mountain river makes V-shaped valleys and waterfalls

Chapter 5: Bends and loops

• Can explain how river bends called meanders grow and how oxbow lakes form

Chapter 6: Journey to the sea

• Can describe floodplains, deltas and estuaries near the end of a river

Chapter 7: Rivers and people

• Can explain why people live beside rivers and how we keep towns and rivers safe