Chapter library

Chapter 1: Conductors and insulators: which materials let electricity flow?

• Can explain that a conductor lets electricity flow through it and an insulator does not, so a bulb lights only when a conductor fills the gap in a circuit

Year 4 science

Chapter 2: Testing materials in a circuit: is it a conductor or an insulator?

• Can test a material by clipping it into the gap of a circuit, and use whether the bulb lights to decide if it is a conductor or an insulator

Year 4 science

Chapter 3: Metals are good conductors: copper, iron, steel and more

• Can recognise that metals such as copper, iron, steel and aluminium are good conductors, and that what an object is made of decides whether it conducts, not its shape

Year 4 science

Chapter 4: Common conductors and insulators at home: plastic, wood, rubber, glass and fabric

• Can name common insulators such as plastic, wood, rubber, glass and fabric, and sort everyday objects into conductors and insulators

Year 4 science

Chapter 5: Conductors and insulators in wires and plugs

• Can explain why wires have metal inside and plastic outside, and why plugs have metal pins and a plastic case

Year 4 science

Chapter 1: Adaptations: body features and behaviours

• Can explain that an adaptation is an inherited body feature or behaviour that helps a living thing survive

Year 6 science

Chapter 2: Desert adaptations: heat, sand and little water

• Can explain how animals and plants are adapted to hot deserts and freezing polar lands

Year 6 science

Chapter 3: Polar adaptations: keeping warm in the cold

• Can explain how animals and plants are adapted to hot deserts and freezing polar lands

Year 6 science

Chapter 4: Ocean adaptations: gills, lungs and streamlined bodies

• Can explain how animals and plants are adapted to oceans and rainforests

Year 6 science

Chapter 5: Rainforest adaptations: rain, shade and crowded trees

• Can explain how animals and plants are adapted to oceans and rainforests

Year 6 science

Chapter 6: How adaptation leads to evolution

• Can explain how adaptations can lead to evolution over many generations

Year 6 science

Chapter 1: Charles Darwin's voyage on HMS Beagle

• Can describe where Charles Darwin's voyage on HMS Beagle went and the clues he collected about living things

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Chapter 2: Fossils: clues that living things have changed over time

• Can use fossil evidence to describe how living things have changed over millions of years, such as horses and whales, and explain what extinct means
• Can explain, step by step, how a living thing from millions of years ago can slowly become a fossil in rock
• Can use fossils as clues to work out what lived long ago, how old it is and how it lived, and say what palaeontologists like Mary Anning do

Year 6 science

Chapter 3: Offspring: like their parents, but not identical

• Can explain that offspring are the same kind as their parents but normally vary and are not identical to them

Year 6 science

Chapter 4: Adaptation: how animals and plants suit their environment

• Can explain how living things that are better adapted survive and pass on their features, so that over many generations adaptation may lead to evolution, as Darwin and Wallace explained
• Can identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways, through body features and behaviour, and explain how each adaptation helps

Year 6 science

Chapter 5: How adaptation may lead to evolution

• Can explain how living things that are better adapted survive and pass on their features, so that over many generations adaptation may lead to evolution, as Darwin and Wallace explained
• Can identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways, through body features and behaviour, and explain how each adaptation helps

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Chapter 1: How fossils form: from living thing to rock

• Can explain, step by step, how a living thing from millions of years ago can slowly become a fossil in rock

Year 6 science

Chapter 2: Fossils as clues: what palaeontologists learn about life long ago

• Can use fossils as clues to work out what lived long ago, how old it is and how it lived, and say what palaeontologists like Mary Anning do

Year 6 science

Chapter 3: Living things have changed over time: fossils as evidence

• Can use fossil evidence to describe how living things have changed over millions of years, such as horses and whales, and explain what extinct means

Year 6 science

Chapter 4: Adaptations: how animals and plants suit their environment

• Can identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways, through body features and behaviour, and explain how each adaptation helps

Year 6 science

Chapter 5: How adaptation may lead to evolution: survival and passing on features

• Can explain how living things that are better adapted survive and pass on their features, so that over many generations adaptation may lead to evolution, as Darwin and Wallace explained
• Can identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways, through body features and behaviour, and explain how each adaptation helps

Year 6 science

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: Living things produce offspring of the same kind

• Can recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, including young that look different at first, like tadpoles

Year 6 science

Chapter 2: Offspring vary: similar but not identical to their parents

• Can explain that offspring are similar to their parents but normally vary and are not identical to them

Year 6 science

Chapter 3: Inherited characteristics: a mix from both parents

• Can describe how offspring inherit characteristics from both parents, so each one is a different mix

Year 6 science

Chapter 4: Inherited or not? Characteristics offspring can and cannot inherit

• Can tell apart characteristics that are inherited, like eye colour, from ones that are not, like scars, dyed hair or learned skills

Year 6 science

Chapter 1: Friction: the grip between moving surfaces

• Can explain that friction acts when surfaces rub together, slows things down, is greater on rough surfaces, and can be helpful or get in the way
• Can show that friction, air resistance and water resistance push the opposite way to the movement

Year 5 science

Chapter 2: Air resistance: how air pushes back on moving things

• Can explain that air resistance slows things moving through air, and is bigger for larger surfaces and faster speeds
• Can show that friction, air resistance and water resistance push the opposite way to the movement

Year 5 science

Chapter 3: Water resistance: how water slows moving things

• Can explain that water resistance slows things moving through water, and that streamlined shapes meet less of it
• Can show that friction, air resistance and water resistance push the opposite way to the movement

Year 5 science

Chapter 4: Friction, air and water resistance: spot the force

• Can show that friction, air resistance and water resistance push the opposite way to the movement
• Can tell whether friction, air resistance or water resistance is slowing something down

Year 5 science

Chapter 1: Unsupported objects fall towards the Earth

• Can explain that objects fall towards the Earth when nothing is holding them up, because gravity pulls them

Year 5 science

Chapter 2: Gravity: a pull between the Earth and a falling object

• Can describe gravity as a pull acting between the Earth and a falling object, even when they aren't touching

Year 5 science

Chapter 3: Falling towards the Earth: which way is down all around the world

• Can predict which way unsupported objects fall in different places on Earth: always towards the Earth's centre

Year 5 science

Chapter 4: Galileo and Newton: scientists who explained falling objects and gravity

• Can describe how Galileo and Newton helped us understand gravity and falling objects

Year 5 science

Chapter 1: The Invisible Pull

• Can explain that magnets can pull things without touching them, even through paper and water

Chapter 2: Magnetic or Not?

• Can sort materials by whether a magnet attracts them, and knows not all metals are magnetic

Chapter 3: Meet the Poles

• Can describe a magnet as having a north pole and a south pole, where its pull is strongest

Chapter 4: Attract or Repel?

• Can predict whether two magnets will attract or repel by looking at which poles face each other

Chapter 5: Magnets at Work

• Can name everyday uses of magnets, such as sorting recycling, compasses and keeping doors shut

Chapter 1: Levers: the pivot, the load and the effort

• Can name the pivot, load and effort on a lever, and find the pivot on different levers such as see-saws, crowbars and wheelbarrows

Year 5 science

Chapter 2: Levers: how a lever lets a smaller force lift a heavy load

• Can explain that pushing further from the pivot, or moving the pivot closer to the load, lets a smaller force lift a heavy load, and that the smaller force has to move further

Year 5 science

Chapter 3: Pulleys: a single fixed pulley changes the direction of a pull

• Can explain that a single fixed pulley changes the direction of a pull, so pulling down lifts the load up, with the same size of force

Year 5 science

Chapter 4: Pulley systems: more pulleys and ropes for a smaller pull

• Can explain that a pulley system with more ropes holding the load needs a smaller pull, but more rope has to be pulled

Year 5 science

Chapter 5: Gears: how toothed wheels change speed, turning force and direction

• Can explain that meshing gears turn in opposite directions, and that a small gear turning a big gear makes it turn more slowly, with a bigger turning force

Year 5 science

Chapter 6: Levers, pulleys and gears in everyday machines

• Can spot levers, pulleys and gears in everyday machines and choose the right one to make a heavy job easier

Year 5 science

Chapter 1: Push Station: Meet friction

• Can explain that friction is a force between touching surfaces that slows moving things down

Chapter 2: Ramp Lab: Rough or smooth?

• Can compare how things move on different surfaces and say that rough surfaces make more friction than smooth ones
• Can plan a fair test by changing only the surface and keeping the car and ramp the same

Chapter 3: Grip Hill: When friction helps

• Can spot when friction is helpful, such as for grip, walking and brakes

Chapter 4: Squeak Workshop: When friction gets in the way

• Can spot when friction gets in the way and name ways to reduce it, such as oil or smooth surfaces

Chapter 1: Naming body parts: head, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, tummy, legs and feet

• Can name and point to the main parts of the body: head, neck, shoulders, arms, hands, tummy, legs and feet

Year 1 science

Chapter 2: Naming smaller body parts: eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hair, elbows, knees, fingers and toes

• Can name smaller body parts: eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hair, elbows, knees, fingers and toes

Year 1 science

Chapter 3: Drawing a person and labelling the parts of the body

• Can draw a person and label the body parts, with each label line pointing to the right part

Year 1 science

Chapter 4: The five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch

• Can name the five senses (sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch) and say which sense they are using

Year 1 science

Chapter 5: Which body part goes with each sense: eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin

• Can say which part of the body goes with each sense: eyes for sight, ears for hearing, nose for smell, tongue for taste and skin for touch

Year 1 science