Science Curriculum Mapping 2014
Year 1
PLANTS
ANIMALS
(including Humans)
EVERYDAY MATERIALS
SEASONAL CHANGES
• Identification and
labelling, including trees
• Identification and
labelling a variety of
common animals (fish,
amphibians, reptiles, birds
and mammals)
• Identify and name a
range of materials (wood,
plastic, glass, metal,
water and rock;
• Features of day and night
including temperature
• Structure of plants,
including roots, stem,
flower, etc.
• Know carnivores,
herbivores and omnivores
• Weather, associated with
seasons
• Classifying and
grouping according to a
range of physical
properties
• How to care for pets
• Name parts of the
human body
Year 2
PLANTS
LIVING THINGS and their
HABITATS
ANIMALS (including
Humans)
Uses of Everyday
Materials
• What plants and seeds
need to grow
• Habitats
• Exercise and healthy living
• Use of different everyday
materials
• Living and non living
things
• What animals and
humans need to survive
• Classifying and grouping
• Early Food Chains
• Animals have offspring,
which grow to be adults
• Changing materials by
bending, etc.
• Growing from seeds and
bulbs
Year 3
ANIMALS
(including Humans)
PLANTS
LIGHT
FORCES and MAGNETS
ROCKS
• Nutrition, linked to
what we eat
• Function of different
parts of plants
• Sources, including
the Sun
• How magnets
attract/repel some
materials
• How rocks are
formed
• Skeletons and
muscles
• What different plants
need to flourish
• Protecting eyes from
the Sun
• Magnetic poles
• Different kinds of
rocks
• Journey of water
through a plant
• Shadows
• Friction
• Fossils
• Reflection /mirrors
• Life cycle of a plant
• Soil
Science Curriculum Mapping 2014
Year 4
ANIMALS,
Including Humans
LIVING THINGS and
their Habitats
STATES OF MATTER
ELECTRICITY
SOUND
• Digestive System
• Identify and name a
variety of living things
(plants and animals) in
the local and wider
environment and
group them
• Solids, Liquids and
Gases
• Identify common
appliances
• Sources
• Heating and cooling
(no baking, etc.)
• Construct simple
circuits including
switches
• Teeth
• Food chains
• Predators and prey
• Recognise that
environments can
change and can
pose dangers
• Vibration
• Evaporation and
condensation
• Loud and faint
• Pitch
• Common
conductors and
insulators
• Volume
• Sound travelling
• Alternative sources
of energy
Year 5
Living things and their
habitats
Animals, including
humans
Properties & changes
of materials
Earth and space
Forces
• Life cycles of plants
and animals
• Changes as
humans develop from
birth to old age
• Dissolving
• Earth relative to the
Sun
• Gravity
• Birth, growth,
development and
reproduction
• Evaporating
• Filtering
• Reversible and
Irreversible changes
• Air Resistance
• Moon relative to
the Earth
• Relationship
between Sun, Earth
and Moon
• Water Resistance
• Friction
• Gears, Pulleys,
Leavers and Springs
• Earth’s rotation
• Day and night
Year 6
LIVINGTHINGS and
their Habitats
ANIMALS, including
Humans
EVOLUTION and
INHERITANCE
LIGHT
ELECTRICITY
• Classification of
living things
• Circulatory system
• Fossils tell us about
the past
• How light travels
• Electrical circuits
(series)
• Heart, blood vessels
• Vertebrates and
invertebrates
• Classifying reptiles,
amphibians,
mammals, insects,
etc.
• The eye
• Off spring
• Diet, exercise and
drugs
• Transport of nutrients
through the body
• Shadows
• Changes to the
human skeleton over
time
• Darwin
• Designing traffic
lights