Ecology and plant reproduction:

The structure and function of the reproductive organs in wind and insect pollinated plants. Pollination, fertilisation and seed dispersal. Investigating the requirements for seed germination.  Using different sampling methods in the meadow.

Atoms, Elements, Mixtures and Compounds

Pure substances and mixtures. Elements, atoms, symbols, molecules, formulae and writing equations. The difference between mixtures and compounds.

Forces

Pushes and pulls. What forces can do and how to measure them. Contact and non-contact forces; balanced and unbalanced pairs of forces; Speed, velocity and acceleration.  Hooke’s Law – How springs stretch 

Body organs and systems

The levels of organisation within our bodies and key systems including the nervous system, endocrine system and excretory system.

The periodic table

The differences between metals and non-metals. The reactions of metals with water, steam, oxygen, acids. Displacement reactions. The reactivity series within the periodic table.

Energy

What is meant by the term energy? Forms of energy and how it can be transferred. Renewable and non-renewable sources of energy and the problems of each resource. Consider each energy resource in the context of our electrical supply

Opportunities for support

Many everyday activities can be used to reinforce the learning in school. e.g. observing changes in the body during exercise, identification of plants and animals in the garden and the countryside, observing changes of state in cooking, observing corrosion of metals, acids and alkalis in the kitchen, using spring balances for cooking and fishing, using nut crackers, highlighting energy use in the house, observing key constellation such as the plough and Orion.

Books

Pupils’ Text book and coursebook

There are many stimulating books in the science section of the school library.