and that adaptation may lead to evolution Working Scientifically – Statutory Requirements for Y5/6 During years 5 and 6, pupils should be taught to use the following practical scientific methods, processes and skills through the teaching of the programme of study content: planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary taking measurements, a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments. Y5 Y5 Properties and (Sound) Y5 and Space Y5 Forces Y5 Animals Y5 Living things and changes of Describe the Identify the including humans habitats movement of the effects of air Describe the materials and other resistance, changes as humans Compare and planets, relative to resistance and develop to old age. group together the Sun in the solar friction, that act everyday materials system between moving on the basis of describe the surfaces their properties, movement of the Recognise that including their Moon relative to the some hardness, Earth mechanisms, solubility, describe the Sun, including levers, transparency, and Moon as pulleys and conductivity approximately gears, allow a (electrical and spherical bodies smaller force to
and that adaptation may lead to evolution Working Scientifically – Statutory Requirements for Y5/6 During years 5 and 6, pupils should be taught to use the following practical scientific methods, processes and skills through the teaching of the programme of study content: planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary taking measurements, a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments. Y5 Y5 Properties and changes of materials Compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and (Sound) Y5 and Space Describe the movement of the and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth describe the Sun, and Moon as approximately spherical bodies Y5 Forces Identify the effects of air resistance, resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces Recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to Y5 Animals including humans Describe the changes as humans develop to old age. Y5 Living things and habitats
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