| Skills development | |
| Working scientifically | - Questioning
- Observing
- Predicting
- Investigating and experimenting
- Estimating and measuring
- Analysing
Sorting and classifying
Recognising patterns
Interpreting - Recording and communicating
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| Designing and making | - Exploring
- Planning
- Making
- Evaluating
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| The science skills above will be developed as work is completed on the strands and strand units of the curriculum outlined below. |
| Strands | Strands |
| Living things | - Human life
- Plant and animal life
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| Energy and forces | - Light
- Sound
- Heat
- Magnetism and electricity
- Forces
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| Materials | - Properties and characteristics of materials
- Materials and change
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| Environmental awareness and care | - Environmental awareness
- Science and the environment
- Caring for the environment
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