Primary Schools

Overview

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