Year 5 Science Curriculum Maps | CGP Plus

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We pride ourselves on covering all the National Curriculum spec points with our resources. Just select your Year, then click on a spec point to see all the resources we've got that cover it.

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Living Things and Their Habitats

Describe the differences in the life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects and birds

Describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals

Animals, Including Humans

Describe the changes as humans develop to old age

Properties and Changes of Materials

Compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties

Know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution

Use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated

Give reasons for the particular uses of everyday materials

Demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes

Explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials

Earth and Space

Describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun

Describe the movement of the Moon relative to the Earth

Describe the Sun, Earth and Moon as approximately spherical bodies

Use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain day and night

Forces

Explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of gravity

Identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction

Recognise that some mechanisms allow a smaller force to have a greater effect