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Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Understand that plants need water, light, and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Observe that young plants and animals resemble their parents but are not identical, recognising inherited similarities and individual differences

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all share the common stages of birth, growth, reproduction, and death

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Use vocabulary for classifying animals and describing life cycles — vertebrate, invertebrate, mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, fish, insect, arachnid, larva…

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Draw and interpret life cycle diagrams for flowering plants, insects (complete and incomplete metamorphosis), birds, and mammals — labelling stages, describing…

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Investigate how water is transported within plants, using observations such as coloured water being drawn up through a stem

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Use vocabulary for variation and inheritance — inherited characteristic, acquired characteristic, variation, offspring, trait, species, breed, genetic…

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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…

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Use technical vocabulary for the major organ systems — organ, organ system, circulatory system, digestive system, respiratory system, skeletal system, muscular…

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

Use technical vocabulary for evolution and natural selection — adaptation, evolution, natural selection, extinct, extinction, fossil record, species, common…

Science // Organisms & Life Processes

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