📗 Reception SCIENCE – FULL CURRICULUM

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A. Shapes and colours

1. Classify objects by two-dimensional shape

2. Sort objects by two-dimensional shape

3. Classify objects by three-dimensional shape

4. Sort objects by three-dimensional shape

5. Classify objects by colour

6. Sort objects by colour

B. Materials

1. Classify objects by texture

2. Sort objects by texture

3. Classify objects by material

4. Sort objects by material

5. Classify objects by shape, colour, material and texture

6. Describe objects

C. Comparing

1. Long and short

2. Light and heavy

3. Hot and cold

4. Fast and slow

D. Light and sound

1. More light or less light

2. Which lets light go through?

3. How do we use light and sound to communicate?

E. Force and motion

1. Push and pull

2. Investigate pushes and pulls

3. The ways things move

4. What objects can a magnet pull?

5. How do magnets push and pull each other?

F. Animals

1. What do animals need to survive?

2. How do animals use their body parts?

3. Match animals to their parents

4. The five senses

G. Plants

1. What do plants need to survive?

2. Identify plant parts

3. Identify types of plants

4. Match plants to their parents

H. Living things

1. Identify living and non-living things

2. Identify plants and animals

I. Earth’s resources

1. Earth materials: water, rocks and soil

2. Classify rocks and minerals

3. Natural resources

J. Human impacts

1. Reduce, reuse, recycle

K. Weather and seasons

1. Describe the weather

2. Types of precipitation

3. Weather patterns

L. Astronomy

1. The daytime sky

2. The night sky

M. Engineering practices

1. Design a race car track