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Our Science section complements the QCA Primary Schemes for Work for Science. A full unit of work is provided: weekly lesson plans, worksheets, interactive resources and assessment.

Unit 1a: Ourselves
Audience: Key Stage 1

Unit 1b: Growing plants
Audience: Key Stage 1

Unit 1c: Sorting and using materials 
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Unit 1d: Light and dark
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Unit 1e: Pushes and pulls
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Unit 1f: Sound and hearing
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Unit 2a: Health and growth
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Unit 2b: Plants and animals in the local environment
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Unit 2c: Variation
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Unit 2d: Grouping and changing materials
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Unit 2e: Forces and movement
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Unit 2f: Using electricity
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Unit 3a: Teeth and eating
Audience: Key Stage 2

Unit 3b: Helping plants grow well
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Unit 3c: Characteristics of materials
Audience: Key Stage 2

Unit 3d: Rocks and soils
Audience: Key Stage 2

Unit 3e: Magnets and springs
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Unit 3f: Light and shadows
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Unit 4a: Moving and growing
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Unit 4b: Habitats
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Unit 4c: Keeping warm
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Unit 4d: Solids, liquids and how they can be separated
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Unit 4e: Friction
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Unit 4f: Circuits and conductors
Audience: Key Stage 2

Unit 5a: Keeping healthy
Audience: Key Stage 2

Unit 5b: Life cycles
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Unit 5c: Gases around us
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Unit 5d: Changing state
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Unit 5e: Earth, Sun and Moon
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Unit 5f: Changing sounds
Audience: Key Stage 2

Unit 5_6h: Enquiry in environmental and technological contexts
Audience: Key Stage 2

Unit 6a: Interdependence and adaptation
Audience: Key Stage 2

Unit 6b: Micro-organisms (short unit)
Audience: Key Stage 2

Unit 6c: More about dissolving
Audience: Key Stage 2

Unit 6d: Reversible and irreversible changes (short unit)
Audience: Key Stage 2

Unit 6e: Forces in action
Audience: Key Stage 2

Unit 6f: How we see things (short unit)
Audience: Key Stage 2

Unit 6g: Changing circuits (short unit)
Audience: Key Stage 2

Great General Web Sites
Here are a few excellent web sites that complement our Primary Art Section:

Science Teaching Ideas
From the Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers Web Site: A great, ever growing site.   Nicely presented and plenty of useful ideas in all subjects

Science Ideas for Primary Teachers
From the Gareth Pitchford's Primary Resources Web Site: A wonderful site with content to match.  Gareth has combined great cartoon artwork with superb resources to create a whole set of worksheets and activities for the primary school teacher.