Four visual, ready-to-teach science lessons for every year group from Reception to Year 6.
Children notice, name and talk about visible parts of their body.
Children explore the five senses using safe, familiar classroom objects.
Children explore the ways their bodies bend, stretch, balance and travel.
Children talk about simple routines that help bodies stay comfortable and healthy.
Children identify and label common parts of the human body.
Children match each sense to the body part mainly used for it.
Children compare body parts and senses in humans and another familiar animal.
Children plan and record a simple investigation using one sense.
Children distinguish basic needs for survival from choices that support wellbeing.
Children observe how movement changes breathing and pulse.
Children explore why humans need food and water and how a balanced choice includes variety.
Children explain how hygiene routines reduce the spread of germs and support health.
Children investigate how the skeleton supports the body and protects important organs.
Children identify joints and explain how they allow parts of the body to bend and move.
Children model how muscles work in pairs to move bones.
Children plan a fair comparison of movement and explain which body systems are involved.
Children model the route food takes through the digestive system.
Children identify different types of teeth and link their shape to their function.
Children investigate why food must be broken down into smaller pieces during digestion.
Children use a visual model and scientific vocabulary to explain digestion from start to finish.
Children sequence and describe the broad stages of human development.
Children distinguish physical growth from the development of new skills and independence.
Children learn that adolescence includes a range of physical and emotional changes and that development varies.
Children synthesise their learning in a visual life-cycle explanation for a younger class.
Children identify the main parts of the circulatory system and explain its transport role.
Children model how blood transports oxygen and nutrients to working cells.
Children plan a fair pulse investigation and interpret the class data.
Children bring together the heart, lungs, blood and muscles in a complete explanation.
