Statement of Inquiry
HSW: The relationships between the world and scientific principles, may through carrying out processes create patterns and provide evidence to create solutions through Scientific research.
Matter: How models can show the interactions and patterns, and how changes in energy may lead to an understanding of the world and its particles.
Key Concepts
HSW (Relationships), Matter (Change)
Assessment Criteria
B, C (HSW), A (Matter)
ATLs
- Write for different purposes
- Draw reasonable conclusions and generalisations
Links to Prior Learning
Pupils should have covered the following skills for investigations in KS2: planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary, taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate, recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs, using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests, reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations, identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.
Statement of Inquiry
Organisation – Understanding how identities are formed from different systems could lead to an exploration of how lifestyle choices and environmental factors may affect the wellbeing of a person.
Earth: Exploring how Earth changes and understanding the connections between interactions and their consequences may lead to a greater knowledge of the impact of decision making on humankind and the environment.
Key Concepts
Organisms (Systems). Earth (Change)
Assessment Criteria
Earth A, Organism D
ATLs
- Consider ideas from multiple perspectives
- Identify trends and forecast possibilities
Links to Prior Learning
Organisms KS2: recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey
Earth KS2: During KS2 students should have covered the following and be able to: Describe the movement of Earth and other planets, compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties, explore different kinds of rocks and soils; classifying rocks according to whether they have grains or crystals and whether they have fossils in them.
Statement of Inquiry
Understanding the relationships between the interaction of objects and their environment could lead to a greater understanding of the world we live in.
Key Concepts
Relationships
Assessment Criteria
D
ATLs
- Use and interpret a range of discipline-specific terms and symbols
- Design improvements to existing machines, media and technologies
Links to Prior Learning
KS2 links – Forces (NC): compare how things move on different surfaces, notice that some forces need contact between 2 objects, but magnetic forces can act at a distance, explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object, identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces, recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect
Statement of Inquiry
Understanding the patterns in changes and how changes interact could lead to an understanding of the different consequences on a global scale to provide sustainable solutions in industry.
Key Concepts
Change
Assessment Criteria
B, C
ATLs
- Access information to be informed and inform others
Links to Prior Learning
Learned about physical changes in term 1- Matter. KS2 links – living things and their habitats (NC), Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things. KS2 links – states of matter (NC), compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C), KS2 links – properties and changes of materials (NC), demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.
Statement of Inquiry
Students will evidence relationships between the natural world and its laws and by identifying interactions may lead to an exploration of these systems, models and processes present in the world around them.
Key Concepts
Relationships
Assessment Criteria
A
ATLs
- Collect and analyse data to identify solutions and make informed decisions
Links to Prior Learning
Builds on learning on energy and forces from term 3. KS2 links – Forces (NC), Students should be able to recognise light is needed to see things and that light is reflected from surfaces., Students should be able to describe magnets as having two poles and predict whether magnets will repel or attract, Students should be able to identify common appliances that run on electricity, construct a simple series circuit and identify basic electrical components.
Statement of Inquiry
Understanding how systems and their interactions could provide evidence for the transitions that may affect physical, psychological and social development.
Key Concepts
Systems
Assessment Criteria
A
ATLs
- Use appropriate strategies for organising complex information
Links to Prior Learning
Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide, information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago, recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring, vary and are not identical to their parents, identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different, ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution.