Science

Science curriculum

72 quality-checked Science topics, mapped to the UK National Curriculum from Year 1 to Year 11. Here is everything your child can learn.

Year 1

KS1
  • Plants
  • Animals Including Humans
  • Everyday Materials
  • Seasonal Changes

Year 2

KS1
  • Living Things and Their Habitats
  • Plants: Growth and Needs
  • Animals: Food, Survival and Life Cycles
  • Everyday Materials and Their Properties

Year 3

KS2
  • Plants: Parts and Functions
  • Plants: Life Cycle and Pollination
  • Animals: Nutrition and Skeletons
  • Rocks: Types and Fossils
  • Light: Sources, Reflection and Shadows
  • Forces and Magnets

Year 4

KS2
  • Living Things and Their Habitats
  • Animals Including Humans: Digestion
  • States of Matter
  • Sound
  • Electricity

Year 5

KS2
  • Living Things and Their Habitats
  • Animals Including Humans: Human Lifecycle
  • Properties and Changes of Materials
  • Earth and Space
  • Forces

Year 6

KS2
  • Evolution and Inheritance
  • Living Things: Classification of Organisms
  • Animals Including Humans: Circulatory System
  • Light: Reflection, Refraction and the Eye

Year 7

KS3
  • Cells: Structure and Organisation
  • Reproduction in Plants and Animals
  • Ecosystems: Food Chains and Webs
  • Chemistry: Particles and States of Matter
  • Chemistry: Elements, Compounds and Mixtures
  • Physics: Forces and Motion
  • Physics: Energy Stores and Transfers
  • Physics: Space and the Solar System

Year 8

KS3
  • Cells: Structure and Function
  • Nutrition and Digestion
  • Gas Exchange and Respiration
  • Atoms, Elements and Compounds
  • Chemical Reactions
  • The Periodic Table
  • Energy: Stores and Transfers
  • Forces and Motion
  • Waves: Sound and Light

Year 9

KS3
  • Reproduction and Genetics
  • Inheritance, DNA and Evolution
  • Ecosystems and Biodiversity
  • Pure and Impure Substances
  • Earth and Atmosphere
  • Electricity: Current and Static
  • Magnetism and Electromagnetism
  • Space Physics
  • Pressure in Fluids

Year 10

KS4
  • Cell Biology
  • Organisation and the Digestive System
  • Infection and Response
  • Atomic Structure and the Periodic Table
  • Bonding, Structure and Properties
  • Quantitative Chemistry
  • Forces
  • Energy
  • Waves

Year 11

KS4
  • Bioenergetics: Photosynthesis and Respiration
  • Homeostasis and Response
  • Inheritance, Variation and Evolution
  • Ecology
  • Chemical Changes and Electrolysis
  • Energy Changes in Chemistry
  • Electricity
  • Magnetism and Electromagnetism
  • Space Physics

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