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Every chapter of every game, with what it teaches. Find the one your child needs, from "why do prices go up?" to telling the time, and open it directly.
264 chapters in 52 games
Day and Night: Spin the Earth to See Why the Sun Moves
Space · Year 5 · Members (chapter 1 free to try)
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Chapter 1: Day and night: how Earth's rotation makes them
- Can explain that day and night happen because the Earth spins, so each place turns to face the Sun and then away from it
- Can say that the Earth spins round once every 24 hours, giving one day and one night
Year 5 science
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Chapter 2: Sunrise and sunset: turning towards and away from the Sun
- Can explain that sunrise is when our part of the Earth turns towards the Sun, and sunset is when it turns away
Year 5 science
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Chapter 3: The Sun's path across the sky: rising in the east, setting in the west
- Can describe how the Sun seems to rise in the east, is highest at midday in the south, and sets in the west
- Can explain that the Sun only seems to move across the sky because the Earth is spinning
Year 5 science
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Chapter 4: Does the Sun really move? Using Earth's rotation to explain it
- Can explain that day and night happen because the Earth spins, so each place turns to face the Sun and then away from it
- Can explain that the Sun only seems to move across the sky because the Earth is spinning
Year 5 science
Earth and Sun: Spin the Planet to Make Day and Night
Space · Year 5 · Members (chapter 1 free to try)
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Chapter 1: The solar system: the Sun and the planets that orbit it
- Can describe the solar system: the Sun is a star at the centre, and eight planets, including Earth, orbit around it in order
Year 5 science
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Chapter 2: Orbits and years: one orbit of the Sun is one year
- Can explain that one orbit of the Sun takes the Earth one year (about 365 days), and that planets further from the Sun have longer years
Year 5 science
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Chapter 3: Rotation: one spin of the Earth on its axis is one day
- Can explain that the Earth spins on its axis once every 24 hours, that one spin makes one day, and that it spins about 365 times in a year
Year 5 science
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Chapter 4: Day and night: how the Earth's rotation makes them
- Can explain that it is day on the half of the Earth facing the Sun and night on the half facing away, and that the Earth's spin carries us from one to the other
Year 5 science
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Chapter 5: Why the Sun appears to move across the sky
- Can describe the solar system: the Sun is a star at the centre, and eight planets, including Earth, orbit around it in order
- Can explain that the Sun appears to rise in the east, be highest at midday and set in the west because the Earth spins, and how a shadow changes through the day
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Phases of the Moon: A Moonwatch Adventure with Nova
Space · Year 5 · Members (chapter 1 free to try)
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Chapter 1: The Moon orbits the Earth: one trip about every 28 days
- Can describe how the Moon orbits the Earth about once every 28 days, always keeping the same side facing us
Year 5 science
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Chapter 2: Moonlight is sunlight: the Sun always lights half of the Moon
- Can explain that the Moon does not make its own light: it reflects sunlight, and the Sun always lights the half of the Moon facing it
Year 5 science
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Chapter 3: Phases of the Moon: why we see more or less of its sunlit half
- Can explain that, as the Moon orbits the Earth, we see more or less of its sunlit half, so it seems to change shape, and that this is not caused by Earth's shadow
Year 5 science
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Chapter 4: Naming the phases: new, crescent, half, gibbous and full, waxing and waning
- Can name the phases of the Moon, like crescent and gibbous, and put them in order, using the words waxing and waning
Year 5 science
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Chapter 5: The Moon's monthly cycle: predicting phases and spotting the Moon in the daytime
- Can use the way the phases repeat about every month to predict the Moon's shape, and knows the Moon can often be seen in the daytime
Year 5 science
The Solar System: Ride the Earth Around the Sun
Space · Year 5 · Members (chapter 1 free to try)
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Chapter 1: The Sun and the eight planets of the solar system
- Can explain that the Sun is the star at the centre of the solar system and name the eight planets in order
Year 5 science
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Chapter 2: How the Earth orbits the Sun: one orbit is one year
- Can describe how the Earth travels around the Sun in an orbit, and that one orbit takes about 365 and a quarter days: one year
Year 5 science
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Chapter 3: How the other planets orbit the Sun: near is quick, far is slow
- Can explain that all the planets orbit the Sun in the same direction, and that planets further from the Sun take longer to go round
Year 5 science
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Chapter 4: The Sun, Earth and Moon are spheres
- Can describe the Sun, the Earth and the Moon as approximately spherical: round like a ball, not flat
Year 5 science
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Chapter 5: Evidence that the Earth is a sphere
- Can explain clues that show the Earth is a sphere, like ships vanishing bottom first and the Earth's curved shadow on the Moon
Year 5 science
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