Science Summer 1 - Chemistry (the branch of science that studies what everything is made of and how it works).

Materials

Children have previously learnt:

● about the properties of solids, liquids and gases, including how heating and cooling can cause

a change of state; evaporation and condensation and the part played in the water cycle; how a

thermometer works and how it can be used to measure temperature (Year 4 Chemistry –

States of matter)

● about which materials are electrical conductors and electrical insulators (Year 4 Physics –

Electricity)

● about magnets (Year 3 Physics – Forces and magnets)

● about human impact on the environment and what happens to different materials when they

are thrown away (Year 4 Biology – Human impact on the environment)

● stages of human growth (Year 4 Biology – Human growth).

In this module, children will learn to:

● compare and group together everyday materials on the basis of their properties, including

their hardness, [solubility,] transparency, conductivity (electrical and thermal), and response

to magnets

● give reasons, based on evidence from comparative and fair tests, for the particular uses of

everyday materials, including metals, wood and plastic.

This prepares children for later learning:

● about dissolving, solutions, separating mixtures, filtering, sieving and evaporating, reversible

and irreversible changes (Year 5 Chemistry – Separating mixtures and changing materials).