Chapter library

Chapter 1: The mean as a fair share: levelling out

• Can explain that the mean is the fair share everyone gets when amounts are levelled out

Year 6 maths

Chapter 2: Calculating the mean: add up, then divide

• Can calculate the mean by adding all the values and dividing by how many values there are

Year 6 maths

Chapter 3: Interpreting the mean: what it tells you and comparing groups

• Can calculate the mean by adding all the values and dividing by how many values there are
• Can explain what a mean tells you, use means to compare groups and work back from a mean to a total

Year 6 maths

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: Circuit symbols: cells, batteries, lamps, buzzers, motors and switches

• Can recognise and draw the symbols for a cell, a battery, a lamp, a buzzer, a motor, a wire and an open or closed switch

Year 6 science

Chapter 2: Drawing circuit diagrams with recognised symbols and a complete loop

• Can draw a circuit diagram with recognised symbols, straight ruler lines, a complete loop and all the cells facing the same way
• Can recognise and draw the symbols for a cell, a battery, a lamp, a buzzer, a motor, a wire and an open or closed switch

Year 6 science

Chapter 3: Lamp brightness: how the number and voltage of cells change it

• Can explain that more cells, or cells with a higher voltage, make a lamp brighter, and that too much voltage can blow a lamp

Year 6 science

Chapter 4: Buzzer volume: how the number and voltage of cells change it

• Can explain that more cells, or cells with a higher voltage, make a buzzer louder, and test this fairly by changing one thing at a time

Year 6 science Year 6 science

Chapter 5: Comparing components: reasons for brighter or dimmer bulbs and louder or quieter buzzers

• Can compare circuits and give reasons why bulbs are brighter or dimmer and buzzers louder or quieter, such as more bulbs sharing the push from the same cells

Year 6 science Year 6 science

Chapter 6: Switches: how the on and off positions open and close a circuit

• Can draw a circuit diagram with recognised symbols, straight ruler lines, a complete loop and all the cells facing the same way
• Can explain that a closed switch completes the loop so the circuit is on, an open switch makes a gap so it is off, and that a switch works anywhere in the loop

Year 6 science Year 6 science

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

Year 6 science Year 6 science

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

Year 6 science Year 6 science Year 6 science

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