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  • Game - Earth Squad, Go!

Living things and their habitats

  • What is classification?

  • What are classification keys?

  • Changing environments

  • What is a lifecycle?

  • How animals reproduce

  • Transport of nutrients and water

Plants

  • The structure of plants

  • What do plants need?

  • Plants and water

  • Pollination and seed spreading

Animals including humans

  • Animals and food

  • How do your muscles work?

  • What is the digestive system?

  • Teeth

  • What is a food chain?

  • Changes in humans during their lifetime

  • The circulatory system

  • The effects of diet, exercise and drugs

Sound

  • Pitch

  • What is the volume of sound?

  • How are sounds detected?

  • How are sounds made?

Electricity

  • Electricity

  • How to be safe around electricity

  • What are conductors and insulators?

  • How can you change a circuit?

  • Circuit symbols

  • Electrical components

Properties and change of materials

  • How to identify materials

  • Separation

  • Chemical reactions and reversible changes

Forces

  • Magnets

  • Which materials are magnetic?

  • Moving on different surfaces

  • Friction

  • Air and water resistance

Earth and space

  • What is the Earth?

  • What is the solar system?

  • The Sun

  • What are the rocky planets?

  • What are the gas planets?

  • Gravity

  • Day and night

Light

  • What is light?

  • How does the eye detect light?

  • What is reflection?

  • Light and shadows

States of matter

  • Solids, liquids and gases

  • Changing States

  • The water cycle

Evolution and inheritance

  • What can fossils tell us?

  • What is evolution?

  • What is inheritance?

Rocks

  • Fossils

  • What is soil made from?

Working scientifically

  • Asking relevant questions

  • How to use scientific equipment

  • Presenting data

  • How do scientists write predictions and conclusions?

  • How do scientists use their findings?

  • What are secondary sources of information?

  • What are accuracy and precision?

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