Science Learning at Mission Grove
In Science during the Summer 2 half-term our children will be learning about:
Two-Year Olds - Bears
- playing what’s in the bag games
- exploring mark marking on different materials
- identifying similarities and differences between pictures and text in books
- identifying similarities and differences between themselves and their friends
- comparing and ordering objects and amounts based on their number/ size/ weight etc
- constructing and balancing lots of structures using a range of materials
- investigating and making patterns
- using weighing scales
- developing their personal hygiene skills
- developing their gross and fine motor skills
- exploring different materials using their senses
- using materials based on their properties
- playing with objects and materials with different patterns, textures, colours and tones
- exploring natural materials based
- investigating mini-beasts
Nursery - Mini-Beasts
- developing their balance and fine motor skills
- increasing their personal hygiene and needs independence
- learning about sun safety
- learning about and applying healthy food choices
- using the features of the things they draw
- investigating texture and the effects of different mark making tools
- constructing with loose parts
- learning about our role as carers for the natural world including the mini-beasts and bees in our bug hotels
- going on bug safaris
- investigating the movements of different animals
- identifying similarities and differences between different parts of the world through pictures
- identifying similarities and differences between people each other and people around the world
- asking questions, making predictions about and exploring how things work
- selecting appropriate resources for their task
Year One - Under The Sea
- learning about how the seasons change and what this affects
- learning about sun safety
- naming plants in the school grounds and BioDome as well as other common plants
- labelling the different parts of a plant and understanding where these should be e.g. the roots should be in the ground
- observe changes over time
- gather and analyse data
- investigating, designing and using pulleys
Year Two - Animals Including Humans
- understanding what animals (including human) need to stay healthy and what will happen if they do not have this
- describing how baby animals change as they grow and age
- ordering the lifestages of humans
Year Three - Light
- recognising that we need light to see
- identifying light sources
- investigating light reflection
- understanding that the sun can be dangerous
- investigating how shadows change
- beginning to understand transparent, translucent and opaque
Year Four - Living Things
- classifying plants and animals based on their own criteria
- creating and using classification keys
- learning about invertebrates and vertebrates
- identifying how humans have impacted the environment both positively and negatively
Year Five - Properties of Materials
- identifies similarities and differences between objects based on their scientific knowledge e.g. transparency or conduction of electricity
- investigating solutions dissolving and solvable or insoluble materials
- understanding how heat affection solution
- explaining the difference between melting and dissolving
- learning about evaporation
- explaining the difference between filtering and sieving and understanding where each should be used.
- separating two mixtures using a variety of methods
- testing materials and explaining how they could be used based on their properties
- researching how scientists use materials based on their properties
- explaining reversible and irreversible changes
Year Six - Living Things
- explaining what classification is and why scientists classify plants and animals
- understanding that groups can be divided into subgroups e.g. animals to vertebrates and invertebrates
- understanding that not all animals of a class have every feature of that class e.g. dolphins are mammals. They produce milk but they don't have hair
- create and use classification systems or keys
- learning about scientists who use or have contributed to classification