Chapter library

Chapter 1: Solids: materials that keep their shape

• Can explain that solids keep their own shape, and can spot solids, including powders like sand and soft solids like a sponge

Year 4 science

Chapter 2: Liquids: materials that flow and take the shape of their container

• Can explain that liquids flow and take the shape of their container while the amount stays the same, including thick liquids like honey

Year 4 science

Chapter 3: Gases: materials that spread out to fill a space

• Can explain that gases spread out to fill the space they are in, escape from open containers, and that air is a real material

Year 4 science

Chapter 4: Comparing and grouping materials into solids, liquids and gases

• Can compare everyday materials and group them into solids, liquids and gases, including tricky ones

Year 4 science

Chapter 1: Squashing: pressing and squeezing to change shape

• Can explain that squashing means pressing or squeezing, and say which things, like dough or a sponge, can be squashed by hand

Year 2 science

Chapter 2: Bending: pushing or pulling straight objects into curves

• Can explain that bending means pushing or pulling something straight into a curve, and say which things, like a pipe cleaner or a plastic ruler, can be bent

Year 2 science

Chapter 3: Twisting: turning the two ends opposite ways

• Can explain that twisting means holding both ends and turning them opposite ways, and say which things, like dough or a wet cloth, can be twisted

Year 2 science

Chapter 4: Stretching: pulling objects to make them longer

• Can explain that stretching means pulling something to make it longer, and say which things, like a rubber band or dough, can be stretched

Year 2 science

Chapter 5: Spring back or stay changed? What happens after squashing, bending, twisting and stretching

• Can say which things spring back to their old shape when you let go, like a sponge or a rubber band, and which stay in their new shape, like dough or foil

Year 2 science

Chapter 6: Testing materials: can it be squashed, bent, twisted or stretched?

• Can predict and test whether things can be squashed, bent, twisted or stretched, and record the results in a table

Year 2 science

Chapter 1: Open the curtains

• Can name the four families of the orchestra: strings, woodwind, brass and percussion

Chapter 2: Build the strings

• Can explain how each family makes sound: bowing or plucking, blowing, buzzing lips, or hitting and shaking
• Can explain that bigger instruments usually play lower notes, like the double bass and the tuba

Chapter 3: Build the woodwind

• Can explain how each family makes sound: bowing or plucking, blowing, buzzing lips, or hitting and shaking
• Can explain that bigger instruments usually play lower notes, like the double bass and the tuba
• Can recognise instruments such as the flute, oboe, trumpet and timpani by how they look

Chapter 4: Build the brass

• Can explain how each family makes sound: bowing or plucking, blowing, buzzing lips, or hitting and shaking
• Can explain that bigger instruments usually play lower notes, like the double bass and the tuba

Chapter 5: Build the percussion

• Can explain how each family makes sound: bowing or plucking, blowing, buzzing lips, or hitting and shaking
• Can tell tuned percussion, which can play a tune, from untuned percussion

Chapter 6: Conduct your orchestra

• Can name the four families of the orchestra: strings, woodwind, brass and percussion

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: 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: The Moon landing in 1969: the Apollo 11 journey from launch to splashdown

• Can tell the story of the first Moon landing in 1969: the Saturn V rocket, the Eagle landing on the Moon and the trip home

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 2: Significant people: the Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins

• Can name Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins and say what each one did on the Apollo 11 mission

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 3: Significant people: Christopher Columbus and his voyage across the ocean in 1492

• Can describe how Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 in wooden ships, using the wind, a compass and the stars

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 4: Chronology: putting Columbus, the Moon landing and today on a timeline

• Can put Columbus's voyage, the Moon landing and today in time order, using words like before, after, long ago and now

Years 1–2 history

Chapter 5: Similarities and differences: comparing life for Columbus (1492) and Neil Armstrong (1969)

• Can say what was the same and what was different about how Columbus and Neil Armstrong travelled, lived and shared their news

Years 1–2 history Years 1–2 history

Chapter 1: Why plants reproduce: parents and offspring

• Can explain what reproduction means and why plants need to reproduce

Year 5 science

Chapter 2: How flowers make seeds: pollination to germination

• Can describe the life cycle of a flowering plant: pollination, fertilisation, seeds, seed dispersal and germination

Year 5 science

Chapter 3: New plants from bulbs and tubers

• Can explain how bulbs and tubers store food underground and grow new plants from one parent

Year 5 science

Chapter 4: New plants from runners and cuttings

• Can describe how runners and cuttings grow into new plants from one parent

Year 5 science

Chapter 5: Seeds and copies: two parents or one

• Can sort ways plants reproduce into seeds (two parents) and copies (one parent)

Year 5 science

Chapter 1: Thirsty Roots

• Can explain that roots take in water from the soil, using tiny root hairs

Chapter 2: The Stem Highway

• Can explain that the stem carries water up to the leaves and flowers through tiny tubes
• Can put water's journey through a plant in order: soil, roots, stem, leaves

Chapter 3: The Colour Lab

• Can predict and explain what happens when a white flower or celery stands in coloured water

Chapter 4: The Leaf Escape

• Can explain that water leaves the plant through tiny holes in its leaves and goes into the air

Chapter 1: A Plant’s Big Adventure

• Can put the stages of a flowering plant’s life cycle in order

Chapter 2: Inside a Flower

• Can name the parts of a flower and say the job each part does

Chapter 3: Pollen on the Move

• Can explain how pollen moves from one flower to another, carried by animals or the wind

Chapter 4: From Flower to Fruit

• Can explain how a pollinated flower turns into a fruit with seeds inside

Chapter 5: Seeds on the Move

• Can explain why seeds need to spread out and use a seed’s shape to work out how it travels

Chapter 6: Seed Detectives

• Can explain why seeds need to spread out and use a seed’s shape to work out how it travels

Chapter 1: What is soil made of? Rock bits and organic matter

• Can recognise organic matter as dead plants and animals that rot and become part of soil
• Can say that soil is made from tiny bits of rock and organic matter

Year 3 science

Chapter 2: Rocks break into tiny bits to make soil

• Can explain how rock slowly breaks into tiny bits that become part of soil

Year 3 science

Chapter 3: Organic matter: dead plants and animals rot into soil

• Can recognise organic matter as dead plants and animals that rot and become part of soil

Year 3 science

Chapter 4: Making soil: rock bits and organic matter mix over time

• Can say that soil is made from tiny bits of rock and organic matter

Year 3 science

Chapter 5: Soil in a jar: separating rock bits and organic matter

• Can separate soil in a jar of water and say which layers are rock bits and which is organic matter

Year 3 science

Chapter 1: Rock appearance: natural rocks, colour, texture and shine

• Can spot natural rocks and describe rocks by their colour, texture and shine

Year 3 science

Chapter 2: Looking closely: grains, crystals, layers and fossils

• Can use a magnifying glass to spot grains, crystals, layers and fossils in rocks

Year 3 science

Chapter 3: Hard or soft rocks: the scratch test

• Can test rocks to find out if they are hard or soft, and put them in order

Year 3 science

Chapter 4: Permeable or impermeable rocks: the water test

• Can test which rocks let water soak in, and group them as permeable or impermeable

Year 3 science

Chapter 5: Compare and group rocks in different ways

• Can compare rocks, group them in different ways and spot the rule used to sort them

Year 3 science

Chapter 1: Plants make food, animals eat it

• Can explain that animals, including humans, cannot make their own food and get their nutrition from what they eat

Year 3 science

Chapter 2: Nutrients: what foods give us

• Can name the types of nutrients (carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins and minerals, fibre and water) and match foods to them

Year 3 science

Chapter 3: A balanced plate: right amounts

• Can build a balanced plate with the right amounts of each food group

Year 3 science

Chapter 4: What different animals eat

• Can compare what different animals eat, and explain that each needs the right food in the right amounts

Year 3 science