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PROGRAMME OF STUDY
Knowledge, skills and understanding
Teaching should ensure that scientific enquiry is taught through contexts taken from the sections on life processes and living things , materials and their properties and physical processes .
The general teaching requirement for health and safety applies in this subject. During key stage 1 pupils observe, explore and ask questions about living things, materials and phenomena. They begin to work together to collect evidence to help them answer questions and to link this to simple scientific ideas. They evaluate evidence and consider whether tests or comparisons are fair. They use reference materials to find out more about scientific ideas. They share their ideas and communicate them using scientific language, drawings, charts and tables.
Electricity
1) Pupils should be taught:
a) about everyday appliances that use electricity
b)
about simple series circuits involving batteries, wires, bulbs and other components [ for example, buzzers, motors]
c) how a switch can be used to break a circuit.
Forces and motion
2) Pupils should be taught:
a)
to find out about, and describe the movement of, familiar things [for example, cars going faster, slowing down, changing direction]
b) that both pushes and pulls are examples of forces
c)
to recognise that when things speed up, slow down or change direction, there is a cause [for example, a push or a pull] .
Light and sound
3) Pupils should be taught:
Light and dark
a) to identify different light sources, including the Sun
b) that darkness is the absence of light
Making and detecting sounds
c) that there are many kinds of sound and sources of sound
d) that sounds travel away from sources, getting fainter as they do so, and that they are heard when they enter the ear.
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