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Science Key Stage 2 (KS2) Revision Topics

Experimental Science, Life processes and living things, Materials and their properties and Physical processes

Key stage 2 science involves two 45 minute tests A and B:

key stage 2, ks2 sat papers. Test A (45 minutes)
key stage 2, ks2 sat papers. Test B (45 minutes)

Experimental Science

  1. Be able to describe what you see
  2. Make a simple observation
  3. Be able to use simple equipment (eg a beaker)
  4. Make a simple table
  5. Make a simple prediction
  6. Know why something is a fair test
  7. Know why a a fair test is important
  8. Be able to vary one factor while keeping other factors the same
  9. Be able to identify or name the main factors that might effect the outcome of an experiment.
  10. Be able to make predictions based on scientific knowledge and understanding.
  11. Be able to select the correct apparatus for several experiments and use it safely
  12. Be able to make observations and measurements with enough accuracy to get a good result.
  13. Be able to explain why two measurements for the same observation may be different.
  14. Be able to record your observations or measurements accurately, using a table if necessary.
  15. Be able to present your data as a line graph (or bar chart) and interpret a trend
  16. Be able to draw sensible conclusions from the evidence you abserve.

Sc2 Life processes and living things

Life processes

1. Pupils should be taught:

  1. the differences between things that are living and things that have never been alive
  2. that animals, including humans, move, feed, grow, use their senses and reproduce
  3. to relate life processes to animals and plants found in the local environment.

Humans and other animals

2. Pupils should be taught:

  1. to recognise and compare the main external parts of the bodies of humans and other animals
  2. that humans and other animals need food and water to stay alive
  3. that taking exercise and eating the right types and amounts of food help humans to keep healthy 
  4. about the role of drugs as medicines
  5. how to treat animals with care and sensitivity
  6. that humans and other animals can produce offspring and that these offspring grow into adults
  7. about the senses that enable humans and other animals to be aware of the world around them.

Green plants

3. Pupils should be taught:

  1. to recognise that plants need light and water to grow
  2. to recognise and name the leaf, flower, stem and root of flowering plants
  3. that seeds grow into flowering plants.

Variation and classification

4. Pupils should be taught to:

  1. recognise similarities and differences between themselves and others, and to treat others with sensitivity
  2. group living things according to observable similarities and differences.

Living things in their environment

5. Pupils should be taught to:

  1. find out about the different kinds of plants and animals in the local environment
  2. identify similarities and differences between local environments and ways in which these affect animals and plants that are found there
  3. care for the environment.

Sc3 Materials and their properties

    Grouping materials

    1. Pupils should be taught to:

    1. use their senses to explore and recognise the similarities and differences between materials
    2. sort objects into groups on the basis of simple material properties [for example, roughness, hardness, shininess, ability to float, transparency and whether they are magnetic or non-magnetic]
    3. recognise and name common types of material [for example, metal, plastic, wood, paper, rock] and recognise that some of them are found naturally
    4. find out about the uses of a variety of materials [for example, glass, wood, wool] and how these are chosen for specific uses on the basis of their simple properties.

    Changing materials

    2. Pupils should be taught to:

    1. find out how the shapes of objects made from some materials can be changed by some processes, including squashing, bending, twisting and stretching
    2. explore and describe the way some everyday materials [for example, water, chocolate, bread, clay] change when they are heated or cooled.

Sc4 Physical processes

Electricity

1. Pupils should be taught:

  1. about everyday appliances that use electricity
  2. about simple series circuits involving batteries, wires, bulbs and other components [for example, buzzers, motors]
  3. how a switch can be used to break a circuit.

Forces and motion

2. Pupils should be taught:

  1. to find out about, and describe the movement of, familiar things [for example, cars going faster, slowing down, changing direction]
  2. that both pushes and pulls are examples of forces
  3. to recognise that when things speed up, slow down or change direction, there is a cause [for example, a push or a pull].

Light and sound

3. Pupils should be taught:

Light and dark

  1. to identify different light sources, including the Sun
  2. that darkness is the absence of light

Making and detecting sounds

  1. that there are many kinds of sound and sources of sound
  2. that sounds travel away from sources, getting fainter as they do so, and that they are heard when they enter the ear.