Science
At KS2
Targets for every child
Around age 11, most children are able to:
Scientific enquiry
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recognise that scientific ideas are based on evidence
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suggest practical ways to answer scientific questions
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set up a fair test by varying one thing while keeping everything else the
same (for example, to see the effect of light on plant growth they could change
the lighting conditions but keep the water supply and temperature the same)
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choose the equipment they need
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make a series of observations or measurements, and record them using
tables, bar charts and simple graphs
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make predictions (for example, that coins are magnetic) and draw
conclusions (for example, 'from my own observations and from what I have found
out from reference books, only steel coins are magnetic').
Life processes and living
things
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name major body organs (for example, heart and lungs), and know where
these organs are
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name plant organs, such as a stamen
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identify and group animals and plants by using methods ('keys') based on
their features
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explain some ideas about the food chain (for example, animals eat other
animals and plants, some are predators, some are prey, some are both).
Materials and their
properties
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classify materials by their different properties (for example, as solid,
liquid, gas)
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describe ways of separating substances (for example, filtering)
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use scientific names for some important changes (for example,
evaporation, condensation)
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use knowledge about which changes can or cannot be reversed (for example,
melted chocolate goes hard again but cooked egg
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stays cooked) to predict whether other changes can be reversed.
Physical processes
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connect, make changes to and draw diagrams of simple electrical circuits
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describe what happens to light and sound when we see and hear
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describe the appearance of the
Sun, Earth and Moon and how their positions change
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make generalisations about forces
(for example magnets attract and repel, friction slows things down).
