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Home Tutoring.org.uk - Science

Home Tutoring.org.uk offers Science for pupils in Key Stage 1 and 2, between the ages of 4 and 11. We use a range of resources to cater for individual needs and we cover all areas of the National Curriculum Early Years Framework preparing children for the Value Added Assessment at the end of Key Stage 2. Tutoring can be done on an individual or very small group basis and always at a pace that is suitable for the student.

Following is an overview of the units we cover at each stage and for each year group (from Year 1 through to Year 6), but these are flexible to suit the individual needs of the learner which means that we are able to only cover specific areas if this is what the learner would prefer. The sections can be taught individually for those wishing to improve in or learn a specific area of Science and not all topics need to be covered within each section. Please contact us to discuss any specific requirements you might have.

Key Stage 1 (Years 1-2 / Ages 4-7)        Key Stage 2 (Years 3-6 / Ages 7-11)

 

Primary Key Stage 1 Science - Years 1 & 2 / Ages 4-7:

The topics covered for Science at Key Stage 1 have been separated into Year 1 and Year 2 units:

Year One units are:

  1. Ourselves - covers parts of the body, the five senses, animals and humans, growing and changing, matching adult and baby animals, growing older, differences between humans, how animals move, living and non-living things and eating and drinking;
  2. Growing plants - covers finding plants, watching plants grow, plants for our food, watering plants, plants and light and living and artificial plants;
  3. Sorting and using materials - covers handling different materials, identifying materials without looking, describing different materials, describing different objects, grouping different materials, magnetic and non-magnetic objects, choosing materials for a purpose, testing fabrics and papers and waterproof materials;
  4. Light and dark - covers light and seeing, sources of light, using lights at night, seeing in the dark, the Sun and shiny objects and light sources;
  5. Pushes and pulls - covers moving things, describing movement, pushing and pulling objects, stopping moving objects and looking at what causes movement;
  6. Sound and hearing - covers listening to sounds, making different sounds, describing sounds, body sounds, how we hear, hearing and safety, loud sounds, testing sound and distance and presenting the results.

Year Two units are:

  1. Health and growth - covers why we eat and drink, eating different kinds of food, planning a meal, exercising, children and young animals growing into adults, looking after babies and children, taking medicines and medicines and safety;
  2. Plants and animals in the local environment - covers looking for plants and animals, describing local habitats, flowering plants, growing seeds, comparing growing conditions and animal reproduction and growth;
  3. Variation - covers grouping animals and plants, humans and other animals, human variation, different plants, measuring differences between children and recording plants and animals;
  4. Grouping and changing materials - covers grouping materials, finding out where materials come from, making a collage, changing shapes, changing by heating, melting ice, experimenting with melting ice, recording observations, changing by cooling, comparing materials and looking at water, steam and ice;
  5. Forces and movement - covers changing shape by force, changing movement by force, speeding up and slowing down, comparing how objects move, experimenting with toy cars, presenting results and looking at pushes and pulls as forces;
  6. Using electricity - covers finding electrical appliances, electrical safety, using batteries and making connections, making a circuit, investigating different circuits and making useful circuits.

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Primary Key Stage 2 Science - Years 3-6 / Ages 7-11:

As with Key Stage 1, the topics covered at KS2 have been divided into Year groups:

Year Three units are:

  1. Teeth and eating - covers types of food, eating for health, what animals eat, investigating what pets eat, looking at teeth, different types of teeth,losing milk teeth and healthy teeth;
  2. Helping plants grow well - covers looking at plants for food, growing plants, roots, looking at celery, leaves, stems and roots, water and plants, plants and light and plants and warmth;
  3. Characteristics of materials - covers finding useful materials, properties of materials, choosing materials for a purpose, testing properties of materials, testing absorbency and testing 'stretchiness';
  4. Rocks and soils - covers looking at rocks, grouping rocks, erosion and permeability, using rocks, different types of soil, looking at soil samples, measuring permeability of soil and testing the permeability of soil;
  5. Magnets and springs - covers exploring magnets, finding magnetic materials, looking at the uses of magnets, the behaviour of magnets, the uses of springs, compressing and stretching springs and testing elastic bands;
  6. Light and shadows - covers making shadows, sunlight and shadows, looking at how shadows change through the day, finding out where the Sun shines, observing the position of the Sun, showing how the Earth spins, sundials and looking at light and different materials.

Year Four units are:

  1. Moving and growing - covers bones and skeletons, comparing skeletons, growing, testing ideas about body size, supporting the body, muscles and bones and muscles and exercise;
  2. Habitats - covers finding different habitats, looking at different animals in different habitats, grouping living things, using keys to identify plants and animals, investigating plants and animals, finding out about food sources, identifying food chains and protecting habitats;
  3. Keeping warm - covers using touch to judge temperature, using a thermometer, recording temperatures, keeping things cold, keeping things warm, insulation, insulators and conductors and looking at the uses of thermal insulators;
  4. Solids, liquids and how they can be separated - covers sorting liquids from solids, measuring volume, pouring solids, freezing and melting, melting temperatures, mixing solids, adding solids to water, separating solids and water and making solutions;
  5. Friction - covers measuring force, sliding objects, using friction, water resistance, air resistance and investigating parachutes;
  6. Circuits and conductors - covers making circuits that work, looking at mains and battery-powered circuits, conduction electricity, conducting and insulating materials, switches, adding batteries and changing circuits.

Year Five units are:

  1. Keeping healthy - covers a poor diet, a varied diet, exercising, the heart and lungs, measuring pulse rate, fast and slow pulse rates, exercise and pulse rates, drugs, tobacco, alcohol and health;
  2. Life cycles - covers fruits and seeds, seed dispersal, seed germination, insect pollination, flower parts for reproduction, the life cycle of flowering plants, human growth and development and looking at what reproduction is for;
  3. Gases around us - covers grouping solids and liquids, understanding air, thinking about powders and sponges, checking observations, air in soil, important gases, evaporation, properties of gas, differences between gases, solids and liquids and how to identify gases, solids and liquids;
  4. Changing state - covers water evaporation, evaporation of other liquids, planning to investigate evaporation, interpreting results on evaporation, drying and evaporation, condensation, finding condensation, boiling, observing melting, reversible changes of state and the water cycle;
  5. Earth, Sun and Moon - covers looking at whether the Earth is flat or spherical, size and distance, the changing position of the Sun, the movement of the Earth, the Sun at different times of the year, the Earth's orbit and the Moon's orbit;
  6. Changing sounds - covers observing how sound is made, vibrations and sound, how sound travels, preventing sound travelling, testing how to muffle sound, reporting and evaluating results, describing sounds, changing sounds, pitch in string instruments, pitch in wind instruments and explaining sound.

Year Six units are:

  1. Interdependence and adaptation - covers plants and light, fertiliser, animals and plants in the local habitat, interdependence of plants and animals, food chains, plants adapting to soil conditions, testing soil, animals and plants in a different habitat and tracing food chains;
  2. Micro-organisms (short unit) - covers germs and disease, what makes people ill, mouldy food, what causes decay, finding out about yeast and looking at micro-organisms in food production;
  3. More about dissolving - covers making water clear, making water pure, testing evaporation of a solution, testing dissolving solids, using graphs and investigating sweeteners;
  4. Reversible and irreversible changes (short unit) - covers mixing materials with water, filtration and evaporation, making new materials, heating and cooling materials, burning and hazards of burning;
  5. Forces in action - covers gravity and weight, showing how forces act on objects, weighing in air and water, checking results, stretching elastic bands, explaining how paper falls and investigating air resistance;
  6. How we see things (short unit) - covers how light travels, how we see light, exploring mirrors, beams of light, reflection from surfaces, investigating shadows and shadows and reflections;
  7. Changing circuits (short unit) - covers changing circuits, drawing circuits with symbols, testing circuits and investigating circuits;
  8. Enquiry in environmental and technological contexts - covers planning an enquiry, collecting and interpreting data, explaining results and considering evidence, making a pressure switch, considering the problem to be solved and presenting and evaluating the design.

In Year Six we also prepare students for the Value Added Assessment in Science by providing them with ample opportunities to revise and practice everything that they have covered.

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