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Sigma Science - Year 5
Primary science resources for the five units of the Programme of Study for Year 5.
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Living Things and their Habitats
Pupils should be taught to:
• describe the differences in the life cycles of a mammal, an amphibian, an insect and a bird;
• describe the life process of reproduction in some plants and animals.- Y5 Living Things and Their Habitats; Seed Dispersal
- Y5 Living Things and Their Habitats; Life Cycle of a Plant
- Y5 Lifecycle of a Dandelion (disc)
- Y5 Lifecycle of a Butterfly
- Y5 Comparing Lifecyles (2)
- Y5 Comparing Lifecycles (1)
- Y5 Plant Structure and Reproduction
- Y5 Pollination
- Y5 Germination and Plant Growth
- Y5 Plant Reproduction and Insect Pollination
- Y5 Life Cycle of a Plant: The Dandelion
- Y5 Butterfly Life Cards
- Y5 Lifecycle of a Butterfly (disc)
- Y5 Lifecycle of a Human (disc)
- Y5 Lifecycle of a Frog (disc)
- Y5 Lifecycle of a Duck
- Y5 Life Cycle of a Komodo Dragon (disc)
- Y5 The Lifecycle of a Frog
- Y5 The Human Lifecycle
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Animals including Humans
Pupils should be taught to:
• describe the changes as humans develop to old age.- Y5 Puberty Cards
- Y5 Animals Including Humans; Puberty
- Y5 Growing Older
- Y5 Animal Gestation Periods
- Y5 Gestation Periods (mammals)
- Y5 What Happens During Puberty?
- Y5 The Changes Experienced During Puberty
- Y5 Growing and Changing
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Properties and Changes of Materials
Pupils should be taught to:
• compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including their hardness, solubility, transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response to magnets;
• know that some materials will dissolve in liquid to form a solution, and describe how to recover a substance from a solution;
• use knowledge of solids, liquids and gases to decide how mixtures might be separated, including through filtering, sieving and evaporating;
• give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic;
• demonstrate that dissolving, mixing and changes of state are reversible changes;
• explain that some changes result in the formation of new materials, and that this kind of change is not usually reversible, including changes associated with burning and the action of acid on bicarbonate of soda.- Y5 Testing Materials for Absorency
- Y5 Opaque, Translucent or Transparent
- Y5 Opaque, Translucent and Transparent Coverings
- Y5 Material Properties (Investigation)
- Y5 Material Properties and Light
- Y5 Insulators and Conductors – Investigating Ice Cubes
- Y5 Absorbent Materials
- Y5 Properties and Changes of Materials; Materials and Their Properties.
- Y5 Properties and Changes of Materials; Do All Things Dissolve?
- Y5 Separating Stones and Wood Shavings
- Y5 Separating Soluble and Insoluble Materials
- Y5 Separating Sand and Water
- Y5 Separating Salt and Water
- Y5 Separating Gravel and Water
- Y5 Planning to Separating a Mixture
- Y5 Separating Mixtures
- Y5 Changing Materials by Burning
- Y5 Investigating Heating and Cooling
- Y5 Material Properties Investigation Table
- Y5 Identifying Material Properties
- Y5 Materials and Their Properties (blank)
- Y5 Material Properties
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Earth and Space
Pupils should be taught to:
• 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.- Y5 Earth and Space; The Solar System
- Y5 The Structure of the Earth
- Y5 All about Saturn
- Y5 All about Pluto
- Y5 All about Uranus
- Y5 All about Jupiter
- Y5 All about Mars
- Y5 All about the Earth
- Y5 All about Venus
- Y5 All about Mercury
- Y5 The Structure of the Earth
- Y5 Sunrise and Sunset
- Y5 Observing the Movement of the Sun
- Y5 Day and Night
- Y5 The Earth Spins
- Y5 The Orbit of the Earth and the Moon
- Y5 The Size and Shape of the Sun, Moon and Earth
- Y5 The Solar System (model)
- Y5 The Solar System
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Forces
Pupils should be taught to:
• explain that unsupported objects fall towards the Earth because of the force of gravity acting between the Earth and the falling object;
• identify the effects of air resistance, water resistance and friction, that act between moving surfaces;
• recognise that some mechanisms, including levers, pulleys and gears, allow a smaller force to have a greater effect.- Y5 Everyday Levers
- Y5 Forces; What Makes Things Move?
- Y5 Forces; Understanding and Using Friction
- Y5 Floating and Sinking
- Y5 Investigating Rubber Bands
- Y5 Thinking about Forces
- Y5 Weighing in Water
- Y5 Weighing in Air and Water
- Y5 Using a Forcemeter
- Y5 Measuring Force
- Y5 Gravity
- Y5 Sliding
- Y5 Shoes and Friction
- Y5 Push, Pull and Friction
- Y5 Friction
- Y5 Friction and Grip
- Y5 Understanding Forces – Friction and Gravity
- Y5 Forces in Action
- Y5 Forces Acting on Moving Objects
- Y5 What is Air Resistance?
- Y5 Reducing Air Resistance
- Y5 Parachutes and Air Resistance
- Y5 Air Resistance
- Y5 Air and Air Resistance
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Planting Bulbs
- Planting Bulbs – Plot a Graph of Bulb Growth
- Planting Bulbs – Data Table
- Planting Bulbs – Observation Sheet (outside page)
- Planting Bulbs – Observation Sheet (inside page)
- Planting Bulbs – How to Grow a Hyacinth Bulb
- Planting Bulbs – How to Grow a Crocus Bulb
- Planting Bulbs – Pupil Instructions
- Y5 Scheme of Work View Resources