| Programme of Study |
QCA Units |
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| 1. Electricity |
| a) about everyday appliances that use electricity |
Unit 2F Using electricity link |
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| b) about simple series circuits involving batteries, wires, bulbs and other components [for example, buzzers, motors] |
Unit 2F Using electricity link |
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| c) how a switch can be used to break a circuit |
Unit 2F Using electricity link |
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| 2. Forces and motion |
| a) to find out about, and describe the movement of, familiar things [for example, cars going faster, slowing down, changing direction] |
Unit 1E Pushes and pulls link
Unit 2E Forces and movement link |
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| b) that both pushes and pulls are examples of forces |
Unit 2E Forces and movement link |
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| c) to recognise that when things speed up, slow down or change direction, there is a cause [for example, a push or a pull] |
Unit 1E Pushes and pulls link
Unit 2E Forces and movement link |
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| 3. Light and sound |
| Light and dark |
| a) to identify different light sources, including the Sun |
1D Light and dark link |
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| b) that darkness is the absence of light |
1D Light and dark link |
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| Making and detecting sounds |
| c) that there are many kinds of sound and sources of sound |
1F Sound and hearing link |
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| d) that sounds travel away from sources, getting fainter as they do so, and that they are heard when they enter the ear. |
1F Sound and hearing link |
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