Progression in Primary Science

Martin Hollins and Virginia Whitby are both Senior Lecturers in Education, Roehampton Institute, London.

• Part 1 Experimental and investigative science: what is science; the balance between knowledge and skills; developing skills; planning investigations. Part 2 Life processes and living things: living and non-living; characteristics of living things; the environment. Part 3 Materials and their properties: solids, liquids and gases; heating and cooling; mixing and separating; chemical changes; mechanical properties; origins; manufacture and uses. Part 4 Physical processes: electricity; forces and energy; light and sound; earth and space. Part 5 Planning and assessing primary science: planning; assessing and recording; science in the whole curriculum. Appendices: equipment; classroom resources.