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Year 4 science
In Year 3, students sort living and non-living things and group living things by their features. They investigate how heating and cooling change materials from solid to liquid and back, model how Earth's spin causes day and night, and explore how heat moves. They begin planning simple fair tests.
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Biological sciences
- Living or non-living?Topic outlineStudents use features such as growing, reproducing, needing food and responding to surroundings to decide whether something is living, was once living, or never lived.
- Grouping living thingsTopic outlineStudents sort animals and plants into groups using observable features, such as birds with feathers, mammals with fur, and flowering and non-flowering plants.