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  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    How Plant Parts Work

    Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots absorb water and nutrients, stems transport materials, leaves make food…

    Ages 7 to 8Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Pollination & Seed Dispersal

    Understand the life cycle of flowering plants including pollination, seed formation, and seed dispersal

    Ages 7 to 8Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Animal Nutrition

    Understand that animals, including humans, need the right types and amounts of nutrition, and that animals cannot make their own food

    Ages 7 to 8Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Skeletons & Muscles

    Identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection, and movement

    Ages 7 to 8Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    What Plants Need to Thrive

    Explore and compare the requirements of plants for life and growth: air, light, water, nutrients from soil, and room to grow

    Ages 7 to 8Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    How animals adapt to environments

    Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment and understand that adaptation may lead to evolution over time

    Ages 8 to 11Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Variation & Survival Advantage

    Use evidence to explain how variations in characteristics among individuals of the same species may provide advantages in surviving, finding mates, and…

    Ages 8 to 9Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Inherited characteristics

    Analyse and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group…

    Ages 8 to 9Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    The Digestive System

    Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the human digestive system: mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine

    Ages 8 to 9Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Types of Teeth

    Identify the different types of human teeth (incisors, canines, molars) and describe their functions in eating

    Ages 8 to 9Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Traits: inherited and environmental

    Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment as well as inheritance

    Ages 8 to 9Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Human Life Stages

    Describe the changes as humans develop to old age, including the stages of the human life cycle

    Ages 9 to 10Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Senses, Brain & Responses

    Use a model to describe that animals receive information through their senses, process it in their brain, and respond in different ways

    Ages 9 to 10Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Structures for Survival

    Construct an argument that plants and animals have internal and external structures that function to support survival, growth, behaviour, and reproduction

    Ages 9 to 10Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Diet, Exercise & Lifestyle

    Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs, and lifestyle on the way human bodies function

    Ages 10 to 11Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    The Circulatory System

    Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels, and blood

    Ages 10 to 11Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Nutrient Transport in Animals

    Describe how nutrients and water are transported within animals, including the role of the circulatory system in delivering nutrients from digestion

    Ages 10 to 11Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Energy from Food & the Sun

    Use models to describe that energy in animals' food was once energy from the sun, transferred through plants or other organisms

    Ages 10 to 11Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Plants Grow from Air & Water

    Support an argument that plants get the materials they need for growth chiefly from air and water, not from the soil

    Ages 10 to 11Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Cells Under the Microscope

    Understand that all living organisms are made of cells and use a light microscope to observe, interpret, and record cell structure

    Ages 11 to 12Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Parts of Plant and Animal Cells

    Describe the functions of the main components of plant and animal cells: cell wall, cell membrane, cytoplasm, nucleus, vacuole, mitochondria, ribosomes, and…

    Ages 11 to 12Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Photosynthesis

    Explain photosynthesis as the process by which plants use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen, and describe how mineral…

    Ages 11 to 12Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Plant Cells vs Animal Cells

    Compare plant and animal cells, identifying shared features and structures unique to plant cells (cell wall, vacuole, chloroplasts)

    Ages 11 to 12Concept
  • Science // Organisms & Life Processes

    Cells to Organ Systems

    Describe the hierarchical organisation of multicellular organisms: cells → tissues → organs → organ systems → organism

    Ages 11 to 12Concept