CONTENTS

Unit Natural Science syllabus Topics

People and health  Nutrition

1 Life processes   Systems involved in nutrition
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People and health  Sight

2 Our senses  Hearing
16

People and health  Health

3 People and health  Prevention
26

TERM REVISION

Classifying Living things   Groups of living things

4 living things  Animals
38

Living things   The parts of a plant

5 Plants  Photosynthesis
48

Wild plants Living things   Plant sensitivity

6 and crops   The life cycle of plants
60

TERM REVISION

Forces and Matter and energy   The effects of forces

7 energy  Gravity
72

Matter and energy  Heat

8 Heat and light   Conductors and insulators
82

Technology, objects and machines   The pulley

9 Machines   The inclined plane
92

TERM REVISION

Cooperative project: Olive oil

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 Topics Know how to

 Sensitivity   The locomotor system Identify healthy diets

  The nervous system  Reproduction

 Touch  Taste Interpret and use codes

 Smell   Looking after your senses

  Health care   A healthy diet Mediate in a conflict

  Healthy habits   Accident prevention

 Plants  Fungi Classify samples from living things

 Algae  Bacteria

  Plant respiration   Asexual reproduction Draw a flower using a magnifying glass

  Sexual reproduction   Plant classification

 Vegetation   The process of farming Choose and look after a plant

  Crop farming   Types of crops

  Non-renewable energy sources   Transformation of energy Identify the effects of forces

  Renewable energy sources   Uses of energy

  Properties of light   Composition of light Identify the primary colours of light

 Refraction  Reflection

  The lever   Operating parts Build a catapult

  Complex machines  Gears

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