Section 1: What is the cause of a year, a month, a day?
Children should learn:
- to explain phenomena such as day and night, and the apparent movement of the Sun
- to represent the system as a model and as a diagram
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Section 2: a. How do we see the Sun and Moon?
Children should learn:
- that there are luminous and non-luminous objects
- that the Sun is a light source, but the Moon and Earth are seen by reflected light
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Section 3: b. How do we see the Sun and Moon?
Children should learn:
- how the view from the Earth of the Moon causes the phases in a regular sequence
- to use information from secondary sources
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Section 4: c. How do we see the Sun and Moon?
Children should learn:
- how eclipses of the Sun occur
- how eclipses of the Moon occur
- about the evidence eclipses provide about the solar system and how scientists use it
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Section 5: d. How do we see the Sun and Moon?
Children should learn:
- to write about a physical phenomenon from a personal point of view
- to develop ideas into continuous text
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Section 6: a. What causes the seasons on Earth?
Children should learn:
- to use a model to show that the axis of spin of the Earth is at an angle to its orbit round the Sun
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Section 7: b. What causes the seasons on Earth?
Children should learn:
- to collect data about temperature and day length, using ICT
- to interpret first-hand and secondary data about temperature and day length
- to follow the sequence of actions and processes being developed
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Section 8: Checking progress
Children should learn:
- to relate ideas about the Sun, Earth and Moon to familiar phenomena
- to introduce, develop and conclude pieces of writing appropriately
- to group sentences into paragraphs
- to develop ideas into continuous text
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Section 9: a. What does the solar system consist of?
Children should learn:
- that our solar system includes the Sun, its planets and asteroids and the natural satellites of the planets
- that the planets orbit the Sun in similar ways to the Earth
- how evidence about the solar system has been collected and interpreted
- to use secondary sources to find out about planets
- to speculate on the possible conditions on other planets
- to identify the main points in each paragraph, distinguishing key points from supporting material
- to use skimming, scanning, highlighting and note making as appropriate to different texts
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Section 10: b. What does the solar system consist of?
Children should learn:
- how to find out about the relative sizes of the Sun, Earth, Moon and other planets and the relative distances of the planets from the Sun
- to frame a question that can be investigated
- to search for patterns from ICT data
- to draw conclusions from data, evaluating the strength of the evidence
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Section 11: c. What does the solar system consist of?
Children should learn:
- that within our solar system only Earth is known to support any life forms
- to evaluate the strength of the evidence
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Section 12: What is beyond the solar system?
Children should learn:
- that the Sun and other stars are light sources
- that the apparent movement of the stars is a result of the Earth's rotation
- that stars are spread throughout the universe
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Section 13: Reviewing work
Children should learn:
- to identify key ideas about the solar system
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