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Fuel curiosity, spark imagination

Year 5 Sample Unit

Hands-on science

for the new

primary curric

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Welcome!This free sample unit is from the Year 5 Earth and Space Unit in Science Bug.This particular unit is an example of one of the “Quest” units in Science Bug. These are open-ended units where children are given a problem-solving quest to complete.

As a Science Bug member, you would access all of your Science Bug plans and resources in the online Teacher Toolkit. From the toolkit, you can export the plans, personalise them, and print them off. All of the resources and activities that you would use to support each lesson, such as Interactive Teaching Resources and Photocopiable Masters, are hyperlinked in every plan so you can access them at the click of a button, whether you’re at home, school or on the move.

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Assessment Toolkit

http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/AssetsLibrary/SECTORS/PRIMARYASSETSNEW/Science/ScienceBug/PDFs/Free-Unit/Science_Bug_Year_5_Earth_and_Space_Teaching_Guide.pdf

http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/AssetsLibrary/SECTORS/PRIMARYASSETSNEW/Science/ScienceBug/PDFs/Free-Unit/Science_Bug_Year_5_Earth_and_Space_Test.pdf

http://www.pearsonschoolsandfecolleges.co.uk/AssetsLibrary/SECTORS/PRIMARYASSETSNEW/Science/ScienceBug/PDFs/Free-Unit/Science_Bug_Year_5_Earth_and_Space_Writing_Frame.pdf

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What is Science Bug? Science Bug is a new and exciting hands-on science programme designed for today’s curious kids.

It’s been written for the new primary science programme of study by an expert author team, to help you spark imagination, fuel curiosity and nurture inspired and confident young scientists.

Anne Goldsworthy Debbie Eccles Deborah Herridge Tanya Shields


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We believe that to instill scientific confidence in children and to inspire future generations of young scientists, we need to spark their imagination and fuel their curiosity with hands-on, experiential science. But just as importantly, we need inspiring teachers at the helm to bring it all to life.

Inspired, confidentyoungscientists

Inspired and confident teachers

Hands-on, awe-inspiring science

Science Bug isn’t about simplifying science to make it easier to implement or understand. Instead, we’ve:

• designed Science Bug with today’s curious kids in mind, and packed it with fun, hands-on activities, videos and animations - things we know will grab them and keep them motivated and excited.

• made sure that Science Bug is built on a really robust teaching and learning cycle that will ensure all children progress in their learning.

• provided support and guidance for you to dip into and use in a way that’s right for you, whatever your level of expertise.


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The Science Bug approach

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The Science Bug teaching and learning cycleIntroduction and knowledge capture• Scene setting

• Informal assessment of children’s initial ideas

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Develop understanding• Teach using real-life examples• Practical work and stimulating

activities

2

Science Bug is written on an evidence-based approach to science teaching and learning.

We know that children construct their understanding of the world through experience. In order to make learning real, children need to explore, ask questions, and assess their understanding.

So we’ve carefully crafted Science Bug on a robust teaching and learning cycle that puts children and hands- on, active learning at its heart and ensures progression for all.

Reflect, review and summative assessment• Children present their learning in a variety of ways• Children look back to initial ideas and recognise

what they have learned

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Formative assessment is built in throughout the lessons along with examples of evidence to check children’s understanding.

Apply understanding• Children use knowledge

and skills to carry out an investigation or to apply to a situation

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Assessment in Science BugFormative and summative assessment is at the heart of the Science Bug teaching and learning cycle, so you’ll find opportunities for assessing progress woven throughout:

Unit overviews and learning expectations set the scene for what children will have learnt by the end of a unit.

‘Knowledge capture’ activities help you assess children’s knowledge at the start of a unit.

Regular opportunities for children to reflect on their learning allows for formative assessment throughout.

End-of-unit activities encourage children to explore what they’ve learnt, and how their ideas have changed and why.

Summative assessment toolkits have written and practical tasks to help give you an overall judgment of children’s attainment alongside your formative judgments.

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What’s in Science Bug?

Inspiring plans,

activities and toolsGuidance and

support on keyscience concepts

Built-in differentiation and assessmentopportunities

Practical investigations,

and outdoor learning to get

kids doing science with

their own hands Printable Photocopiable Masters to support lessons and investigations

Interactive Teaching Resources containing videos, animations and

fun, interactive activities

All iPad friendly and can be allocated to children for revision at school, or at home!

Name: Date:

Electrical circuits 1

Match the correct word to the photo.

© Pearson Education 2015Y4 E PCM 2

Y2 Uses of MaterialsLesson 1

National Curriculum objectiveIdentify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal,

plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard for particular uses.Working Scientifically

Identifying and classifying

Learning outcome• Find out which materials children can identify.Activity: Identifying common materials• Children work in small groups of no more than four. Give each group a sample of all the

materials from the equipment list below. Allow them time to explore the different materials.

• Tell children that the things in front of them are all examples of different materials and that

everything in our world is made out of different kinds of materials.• In their groups, children list as many different materials as they can. Share their ideas and

make a class list.• Play a game of Altogether Show Me. Ask children, on the count of three, to lift up a named

material from those in their collection. Include the use of the term ‘fabric’.• Still in their groups, children go on hunts in the classroom or the playground, finding objects

made out of a single material, e.g. rubber (an eraser) or plastic (a ruler). They then find

objects made out of a combination of more than one material, e.g. plastic and metal (a pencil

sharpener) or glass, plastic and metal (a computer). Ask children to name the different

materials in the objects made out of more than one material.• If there are displays of materials in the classroom, allow children to add some of their objects

to collections of the same material.

Differentiation

Support• Restrict the hunts to objects made out of only one material.Extend• Include different types of wood and/or metal.

Name: Date:

How does light travel?Complete the experiment to see how light travels.

© Pearson Education 2015Y6 LS PCM 2

You will need:

• a torch• a comb• a pen• a sheet of A4 paper

Pupil BooksBeautifully designed Pupil Books for independent work and science skill preparation.

Professional DevelopmentInspirational and practical in-school course to familiarise you with your Science Bug toolkit and the new science programme of study.

Access to a pupil reward world!

The gestation time for a hamster is only 16 days.

Looking at variables

The gestation time for an African elephant is 660 days!

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Science skills

Bird Robin Blackbird Crow Raven

Egg

Size (mm) 20 x 16 29 x 21 43 x 30 50 x 33

Time to hatch (days)

13 14 19 20

Did you know?Some birds, like parrots and flamingos, can live for over 80 years.

Some trees, like the bristlecone pine, can live for thousands of years!

Is there a pattern in this data?Which two variables can be linked?Make up a general rule that links the size of the egg and the time it takes to hatch?If you found an egg that was 60 mm long, how long might it take to hatch?How long would an egg that was 35 mm long take to hatch?

The time of your life!Life cycles take different lengths of time. The gestation period of an animal is the time from fertilisation of the egg to the birth of the offspring. Find out how long the gestation of various animals takes. How could you present your data? Think of two ways. Which animal has the longest gestation period of all? Why do you think that is?

New lifeEvery species or type of living thing needs to reproduce to

survive. If they don’t, then that species will die out entirely.

Plants and animals all have a life cycle. Look at these life

cycles. What do they all have in common?Earth and SpaceLife Cycles

Life Cycles

The circle of lifeEvery living thing shares a basic life cycle, with stages of birth, growth and

reproduction. All living things will die eventually. but this cycle means that their offspring will go on to reproduce and continue the species.

Things to doSome organisms have ‘extra’ phases or special

names for different parts

of their life cycles. How many can you discover?

What is the most interesting

life cycle you can find?3

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A newt is an amphibian.Eggslarva larva develop limbs

adult

young newt (eft)

A tomato is a plant. seed

seedling

young plant with flowersadult plant with fruits

A seagull is a bird. egg

hatchling

juvenile bird

adult

A monarch butterfly is an insect.

butterfly

chrysalis (pupa)

eggs

caterpillar

A goat is a mammal.

kid

young goat

adult goat

embryo

Summative Assessment Toolkit

Teacher ToolkitEverything you need online and in one place to help you inspire confident, young scientists.

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How is Science Bug organised?To support you in delivering the science programme of study and to free you up to focus on what you do best, we’ve woven together the working scientifically skills and the knowledge objectives to form six half-termly units per year group.

Year 1/P2• Parts of animals• Changing seasons• Plants• Comparing materials• Types of animals • Identifying materials

Year 4/P5• Dangers to living things• Electricity• Human nutrition• Sound• Grouping living things• Changes of state

Year 2/P3• Living things• Uses of materials• Growing plants• Changing shape• Habitats • Feeding and exercise

Year 5/P6• Life cycles • Earth and space • Separating mixtures • Types of change • Materials • Forces

Year 3/P4• Movement and feeding• Light and shadows • What plants need• Rocks and soils• Parts of plants • Magnets and forces

Year 6/P7• Our bodies• Light and sight• Classifying living things• Changing circuits• Evolution and inheritance• Review and celebration

This list of units is in the same order that they are laid out in the National Curriculum, but is not a reflection of the order they need to be taught.

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