Chapter library

Chapter 1: Build a skeleton

• Can name the main bones, like the skull, ribs, spine and thigh bone

Chapter 2: Support and protect

• Can explain that the skeleton holds us up and protects organs, like the skull guarding the brain

Chapter 3: Joints

• Can explain that joints are where bones meet, letting us bend and move

Chapter 4: Muscle power

• Can explain that muscles pull on bones (through tendons) to move them

Chapter 5: Animal skeletons

• Can sort animals into those with a skeleton inside, a skeleton outside, or no skeleton

Chapter 1: Basic needs: water, food and air

• Can name the three things all animals, including humans, need to survive: water, food and air

Year 2 science

Chapter 2: How animals get water, food and air

• Can describe how different animals, even fish and whales, get water, food and air

Year 2 science

Chapter 3: Exercise: why moving keeps us healthy

• Can explain that exercise makes the heart, lungs and muscles stronger and helps us feel good

Year 2 science

Chapter 4: Eating the right amounts of different foods

• Can sort foods into different types and say how much of each type to eat

Year 2 science

Chapter 5: Hygiene: clean hands, teeth and catching germs

• Can explain how washing hands with soap, brushing teeth and catching sneezes stop germs spreading

Year 2 science

Chapter 1: Chomp Time!

• Can name incisors, canines and molars and say what job each does, in people and in animals

Chapter 2: Tooth Squad

• Can explain that sugar helps germs make acid that harms teeth, and how brushing, healthy snacks and the dentist keep teeth healthy
• Can name incisors, canines and molars and say what job each does, in people and in animals

Chapter 3: Down the Hatch

• Can explain that saliva and the tongue help us swallow, and that the oesophagus squeezes food and drink down to the stomach

Chapter 4: The Stomach Churn

• Can explain that the stomach is a stretchy, muscly bag under the ribs that churns food with strong juices into a thick soup

Chapter 5: The Twisty Tubes

• Can explain that the small intestine passes goodness from food into the blood and the large intestine takes water out of what is left

Chapter 1: Parts of the body: name and label them

• Can name and label the main parts of the body, such as head, neck, arms, elbows, hands, legs, knees and feet

Year 1 science

Chapter 2: Parts of the face: eyes, ears, nose, mouth and tongue

• Can name and label the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and tongue

Year 1 science

Chapter 3: Sight and hearing: we see with our eyes and hear with our ears

• 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

Chapter 4: Smell and taste: we smell with our nose and taste with our tongue

• 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

Chapter 5: Touch: we feel with our skin, plus all five senses

• 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
• Can name the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch

Year 1 science

Chapter 1: Parts of the circulatory system

• Can name the main parts of the circulatory system: the heart, blood vessels and blood

Year 6 science

Chapter 2: The heart: pumping blood round the body

• Can explain that the heart is a muscle that pumps blood to the lungs and round the body

Year 6 science

Chapter 3: Blood vessels: arteries, veins and capillaries

• Can describe what arteries, veins and capillaries do

Year 6 science

Chapter 4: Blood: its parts and their jobs

• Can describe what blood is made of and what each part does

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Chapter 5: Carrying nutrients and water round the body

• Can explain how nutrients and water are carried round the body in the blood, in humans and other animals

Year 6 science

Chapter 6: How other animals carry nutrients and water

• Can explain how nutrients and water are carried round the body in the blood, in humans and other animals

Year 6 science

Chapter 1: Making sounds: things that vibrate

• Can explain that sounds are made when something vibrates, and spot what is vibrating

Year 4 science

Chapter 2: Vibrations travel through the air to the ear

• Can explain that vibrations travel through a medium, like air, to reach the ear

Year 4 science

Chapter 3: Sound travels through solids, liquids and gases

• Can recognise that vibrations travel through solids, liquids and gases to reach the ear

Year 4 science

Chapter 4: Sounds get fainter further from the source

• Can explain that sounds get fainter as you move further away from the sound source

Year 4 science

Chapter 1: Light helps us see: dark is the absence of light

• Can explain that we need light to see things, and that dark means there is no light at all
• Can spot light sources, like the Sun, a lamp and a candle, that make their own light

Year 3 science

Chapter 2: Light reflects off surfaces: mirrors, shiny and dull

• Can notice that light reflects off surfaces, and that smooth, shiny surfaces reflect the most

Year 3 science

Chapter 3: Shadows form when an opaque object blocks light

• Can explain that a shadow forms when an opaque object blocks light from a light source

Year 3 science

Chapter 4: Shadow sizes: finding the pattern

• Can find patterns in the way the size of a shadow changes as the light moves closer or further away

Year 3 science

Chapter 1: Pitch: high and low sounds

• Can explain that pitch means how high or low a sound is, and that fast vibrations make high sounds and slow vibrations make low sounds

Year 4 science

Chapter 2: Pitch and size: long, short, big and small

• Can predict that longer or bigger objects make lower sounds, and shorter or smaller objects make higher sounds

Year 4 science

Chapter 3: Pitch: tight or loose, thick or thin

• Can explain that tighter or thinner strings and drum skins make higher sounds, and looser or thicker ones make lower sounds

Year 4 science

Chapter 4: Volume and the strength of vibrations

• Can explain that the volume of a sound depends on the strength of its vibrations: stronger, bigger vibrations make louder sounds and gentle, small vibrations make quieter sounds

Year 4 science

Chapter 5: Pitch or volume? Using both patterns

• Can tell whether a change to a sound changes its pitch or its volume, and change each one on purpose

Year 4 science Year 4 science

Chapter 1: Dissolving: soluble and insoluble materials make a solution

• Can explain that some solids dissolve in a liquid to make a solution, sort materials into soluble and insoluble, and tell dissolving apart from melting

Year 5 science

Chapter 2: Sieving: separating solids with different-sized pieces

• Can explain how a sieve separates solids with different-sized pieces, and choose a sieve with the right size holes

Year 5 science

Chapter 3: Filtering: separating an insoluble solid from a liquid

• Can use filtering to separate an insoluble solid, like sand, from a liquid, and explain why filtering cannot catch a dissolved solid

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Chapter 4: Evaporating: recovering a dissolved substance from a solution

• Can describe how to get a dissolved solid back from a solution by evaporating the liquid, so the solid is left behind

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Chapter 5: Choosing a method: separating mixtures by sieving, filtering and evaporating

• Can use what they know about solids, liquids and gases to choose sieving, filtering or evaporating, and plan the steps to separate a mixture

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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

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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: Hardness: comparing hard and soft materials with a fair scratch test

• Can compare how hard materials are with a fair scratch test, and put them in order from softest to hardest
• Can plan a fair test, and use the results to explain why metals, wood and plastic are chosen for particular jobs

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Chapter 2: Transparency: transparent, translucent and opaque materials

• Can test materials with a torch and group them as transparent, translucent or opaque

Year 5 science

Chapter 3: Solubility: soluble and insoluble solids in water

• Can test which solids dissolve in water, and group them as soluble or insoluble

Year 5 science

Chapter 4: Conductivity: electrical and thermal conductors and insulators

• Can plan a fair test, and use the results to explain why metals, wood and plastic are chosen for particular jobs
• Can test materials to find electrical and thermal conductors and insulators, and explain that metals are good conductors

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Chapter 5: Response to magnets: magnetic and non-magnetic materials

• Can test which materials are attracted to a magnet, and explain that only some metals, such as iron and steel, are magnetic

Year 5 science

Chapter 6: Comparing and grouping materials by their properties

• Can compare and group materials using two or more properties, such as in a Venn diagram or by finding the odd one out

Year 5 science

Chapter 7: Fair tests and evidence: why we use metals, wood and plastic

• Can plan a fair test, and use the results to explain why metals, wood and plastic are chosen for particular jobs

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Chapter 1: Changes of state: melting, freezing, evaporating and condensing are reversible

• Can show that melting, freezing, evaporating and condensing are reversible changes by changing a material back to how it was

Year 5 science

Chapter 2: Dissolving: a reversible change, getting the solid back by evaporating

• Can explain that a dissolved solid is still in the solution, and get it back by evaporating the water

Year 5 science

Chapter 3: Mixing: a reversible change, separating mixtures with a sieve and a filter

• Can show that mixing is reversible by separating mixtures with a sieve or a filter

Year 5 science

Chapter 4: Burning: an irreversible change that makes new materials

• Can explain that burning makes new materials, such as ash, smoke and gases, so it can't be reversed

Year 5 science

Chapter 5: Acid on bicarbonate of soda: an irreversible change that makes a new gas

• Can explain that vinegar (an acid) and bicarbonate of soda make a new gas, carbon dioxide, so the change is irreversible

Year 5 science

Chapter 6: Reversible or irreversible? Sorting changes and explaining why

• Can sort everyday changes as reversible or irreversible and explain why, by asking whether a new material is made

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