Science

National Curriculum Coverage (Knowledge):

• Identify what observations to make and how to make them using standard units where relevant
• Identify scientific evidence that use been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.
• Use appropriate scientific language
• Planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary
• 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

• Describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system
• 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 and the apparent movement of the sun across the sky