Homeschool → the UK → Year 4 → Science
Year 4 science
In Year 4, 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?Full lesson · 45 minStudents 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 thingsFull lesson · 45 minStudents sort animals and plants into groups using observable features, such as birds with feathers, mammals with fur, and flowering and non-flowering plants.
Chemical sciences
Earth and space sciences
Physical sciences
Science inquiry
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Curriculum notes
Australian Curriculum v9.0. Topics are organised around the Australian Curriculum v9.0 Science strands and sub-strands. This is an independent learning resource; it is not endorsed by ACARA and has not been mapped to individual content descriptions.
These lessons were written around Australian Curriculum strands and matched to UK year groups by age (Year 1 is the year a child turns 6 in England). They are not mapped to the National Curriculum in England or the curricula of Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, so check them against your own plans.
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