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Science // Dinosaurs & Paleontology

Evaluate competing scientific explanations about dinosaurs by weighing fossil evidence — understanding that scientific knowledge changes as new fossils are…

Science // Dinosaurs & Paleontology

Read and create simple cladograms (branching diagrams) that show how groups of dinosaurs are related based on shared features, understanding that species…

Science // Dinosaurs & Paleontology

Understand that modern birds evolved from a group of small feathered theropod dinosaurs, using evidence such as the fossil Archaeopteryx, feathered dinosaur…

Science // Dinosaurs & Paleontology

Understand that palaeoart — scientific illustrations and models of dinosaurs — is based on fossil evidence but involves informed speculation about skin colour…

Science // Dinosaurs & Paleontology

Understand that rock layers (strata) form in sequence with the oldest at the bottom and the youngest at the top, and that fossils found in deeper layers are…

Science // Dinosaurs & Paleontology

Describe how palaeontologists work in the field and lab: prospecting for exposed fossils, careful excavation with hand tools, plaster jacketing for transport…

Science // Dinosaurs & Paleontology

Classify dinosaurs into the two major groups based on hip structure: Saurischia (lizard-hipped, including theropods and sauropods) and Ornithischia…

Science // Dinosaurs & Paleontology

Describe the Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K-Pg) extinction event approximately 66 million years ago, including the asteroid impact theory and its evidence (iridium…

Science // Earth's Systems

Develop a model to represent the shapes and kinds of land (mountains, valleys, plains) and bodies of water (rivers, lakes, oceans) in an area

Science // Earth's Systems

Identify where water is found on Earth and understand that water can exist as solid (ice) or liquid, recognising water in oceans, rivers, glaciers, and…

Science // Earth's Systems

Compare and group different kinds of rocks based on their appearance and simple physical properties such as hardness, texture, and colour

Science // Earth's Systems

Describe in simple terms how fossils are formed when things that have lived are trapped within rock over millions of years

Science // Earth's Systems

Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land

Science // Earth's Systems

Name and use vocabulary for the water cycle — evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection, transpiration, water vapour, runoff, groundwater — and…

Science // Earth's Systems

Recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter, and that different soils have different properties

Science // Earth's Systems

Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world, distinguishing between weather and climate

Science // Earth's Systems

Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season

Science // Earth's Systems

Analyse and interpret data from maps to describe patterns of Earth's features, recognising that many features result from processes that occur over long periods

Science // Earth's Systems

Make observations and measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation

Science // Earth's Systems

Use vocabulary for Earth's geological processes and rock types — igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic, erosion, weathering, deposition, fossil, sediment, strata…

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how habitats provide for basic needs and how organisms depend on each…

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Name and use vocabulary for where living things are found — habitat, environment, microhabitat, conditions, woodland, ocean, desert, rainforest, pond — and use…

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats such as under a log or in a pond

Science // Ecosystems & Habitats

Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers and challenges to living things