UKS2 Science Vocabulary Map
The national curriculum for science aims to ensure that all pupils:
- develop scientific knowledge and conceptual understanding through the specific disciplines of biology, chemistry and physics
- develop understanding of the nature, processes and methods of science through different types of science enquiries that help them to answer scientific questions about the world around them
- are equipped with the scientific knowledge required to understand the uses and implications of science, today and for the future.
During years 5 and 6, pupils will be taught to use the following practical scientific methods, processes and skills through the teaching of every programme of study content:
- planning different types of scientific enquiries to answer questions, including recognising and controlling variables where necessary
- taking measurements, using a range of scientific equipment, with increasing accuracy and precision, taking repeat readings when appropriate
- recording data and results of increasing complexity using scientific diagrams and labels, classification keys, tables, scatter graphs, bar and line graphs
- using test results to make predictions to set up further comparative and fair tests
- reporting and presenting findings from enquiries, including conclusions, causal relationships and explanations of and degree of trust in results, in oral and written forms such as displays and other presentations
- identifying scientific evidence that has been used to support or refute ideas or arguments.
Upper Key Stage 2
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Project Cycle 1 |
NC Science Coverage |
Knowledge vocabulary |
Project Cycle 2 |
NC Science Coverage |
Knowledge vocabulary |
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Revolution
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Physics Electricity
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As LKS2 + Flow,
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Heart Beat |
Biology Animals including humans
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Circulatory system: capillaries, lungs, cells, blood vessels, functions, lungs, transport, nutrients, oxygen, adrenaline, adrenaline, aerobic respiration, alveoli, aorta, arteries, atrium, blood, blood vessels, bronchi, bronchioles, capillaries, carotid artery, circulatory system, clotting, deoxygenated, diaphragm, gills, haemoglobin, heart, heart rate, intercostal muscles, lungs, oxygenated, plasma, platelets, pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, pulse, red blood cells, veins, ventricles, white blood cells, wind pipe (trachea)
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Gallery Rebels |
Physics Light
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Same as LKS2 + Reflect (don’t use bounce), object, light source, brain, eye, Shadow, optic nerve Straight lines, absorption, lenses, light source, optics, periscope, prism, rainbow, reflection, refraction, spectrum, transmission |
Alchemy Island |
Chemistry Properties and changing materials
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Separation buoyancy, burning, change of state, chemical changes, chemical reaction, density, dissolving, elasticity, electrical conductivity, evaporating, filtering, filtrate, gas, hardness, irreversible or hard-to-reverse change, liquid, melting, magnetism, polymer, residue, reversible change, rusting (oxidisation), sieving, solid, solubility,
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Star Gazing |
Physics Earth and Space |
asteroids, axis, celestial body, comets, Earth, Earth’s rotation, elliptical orbit, gravitational force, heliocentric model of the solar system, galaxy, geocentric model, hemisphere, Jupiter, light year, Mars, Mercury, meteors, moon, Neptune, phases of the moon, Saturn, shadow clock, shooting stars, Sun, sundial, time zones, Uranus, Venus
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Frozen Kingdom |
Biology Living things and their habitats
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As LKS2 + Life cycle, mammal, amphibian, insect, reproduction, asexual reproduction, sexual reproduction, naturalist, fertilisation, seed dispersal, pollination, stamen, stigma, anther, style, ovary, ovule, sepal, filament, pistil Humans, elderly, adolescence, adolescent, puberty, gestation periods, classification, classification |
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Hola Mexico |
Physics Forces |
As LKS2 + drag forces, gears, levers, pulleys, springs, transference of force and motion
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Pharaohs |
Biology Evolution and inheritance
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Fossils, evolution, structural and behavioural, Darwin, Alfred Wallace, Mary Anning, environment, habitat, species, adaptation, chromosomes, competition, DNA, environmental conditions, environmental variations, evolution, evolutionary change, features, fossil records, genes, genetic variation, inheritance, natural |