How to learn Key stage 1: Science

The national curriculum in England: Key stages 1 and 2 framework document, Key stage 1

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1. Working scientifically

1. Asking scientific questions: Ask simple scientific questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways including observation, testing, and research
2. Observing with simple equipment: Observe closely using simple equipment such as hand lenses, and use observations to describe, compare, and identify things
3. Simple tests and experiments: Perform simple tests and use observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
4. Recording Data: Gather and record data using simple methods such as tables, tally charts, and drawings to help answer questions

2. Animals, including humans

1. Naming Common Animals: Identify and name common animals from major groups: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals
2. Herbivores, Carnivores & Omnivores: Classify common animals as carnivores (eat meat), herbivores (eat plants), or omnivores (eat both)
3. Animal Body Groups: Describe and compare the external body structure of common animals across groups (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals)
4. Body Parts & Senses: Identify, name, and locate basic parts of the human body and associate each body part with its sense
5. Animal Life Stages: Recognise that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults, and describe basic animal life stages
6. What Living Things Need: Understand what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive: water, food, air, and suitable conditions

3. Everyday materials

1. Objects vs Materials: Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made, understanding that objects can be made from different materials
2. Naming Everyday Materials: Identify and name a variety of everyday materials including wood, plastic, glass, metal, water, and rock
3. Describing Material Properties: Describe simple physical properties of everyday materials such as hard/soft, stretchy/stiff, shiny/dull, rough/smooth, waterproof/absorbent, transparent/opaque
4. Grouping Materials: Compare and group everyday materials based on their simple physical properties

4. Plants

1. Common Plants & Trees: Identify and name common wild and garden plants, including deciduous and evergreen trees
2. Parts of a Plant: Identify and describe the basic structure of common flowering plants (roots, stem, leaves, flowers) and trees (roots, trunk, branches, leaves)
3. Seeds & Plant Growth: Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants through stages of germination and growth
4. What Plants Need to Grow: Understand that plants need water, light, and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy

5. Seasonal changes

1. Seasonal changes: Observe changes across the four seasons and describe weather associated with each season, including how day length varies
2. Why seasons change: Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year, noticing longer days in summer and shorter days in winter

6. Living things and their habitats

1. Living, Dead & Never Alive: Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive
2. Habitats & Basic Needs: 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 other
3. Local Plants & Animals: Identify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitats such as under a log or in a pond
4. Simple Food Chains: Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify different sources of food

7. Uses of everyday materials

1. Choosing the Right Material: Identify and compare the suitability of everyday materials for particular uses, explaining why specific materials are chosen for specific purposes
2. Changing Shapes of Solids: Investigate how the shapes of solid objects can be changed by squashing, bending, twisting, and stretching