SESHAT library

Describe the function of the major parts of flowering plants (limited to roots, leaves, stems and flowers).

Identify the distinguishing features of different groups of animals, including fish, reptiles, mammals, birds, amphibians and insects.

Identify some of the important organs in humans (limited to brain, heart, stomach, intestine and lungs) and describe their functions.

Know that plants need appropriate conditions, including temperature, light and water, to be healthy.

Describe and compare how the offspring of different animals grow into adults, including humans, birds, frogs and butterflies.

Identify and describe simple food chains, where plants are producers and animals are consumers of plants and/or other animals.

Know that materials can be solids, liquids or gases.

Understand that a mixture contains two or more materials, where the materials can be physically separated.

Describe differences in the properties of solids and liquids.

Understand that materials, generally, retain their properties within a mixture.

Describe how to separate solid/solid mixtures based on the physical properties of the solids (processes involving dissolving are not required).

Describe how to separate a mixture of an insoluble solid and a liquid.

Know that when a solid dissolves in a liquid the solid is still present, and this is an example of mixing.

Know that forces can be measured with a forcemeter.

Know that gravity on Earth is a force that pulls towards the centre of the Earth.

Know that friction is a force created between surfaces when they move against each other and it makes this movement harder.

Describe how smooth and rough surfaces can generate different amounts of friction.

Investigate how light can pass through some materials and is blocked by others, and use the terms transparent, translucent and opaque.

Know that shadows are formed when light from a source is blocked by an object.

Investigate how the size of a shadow is affected by the position of the object and the position of the light source.

Describe magnets as having a north pole and a south pole.

Describe how magnets interact when near each other, using the terms repel and attract.

Investigate how some materials are magnetic but many are not.

Know that planet Earth is the source of all the materials we use and that many useful materials, including oil, natural gas and metals, come from or are found in rocks.

Know that fossils are impressions, or remains, of things that were once alive.

Describe the regular change in the position and appearance of the Moon.

Describe the relative movement of the Earth and Moon.

Describe the Earth, Sun and Moon as approximately spherical.