Animals, including humans

• understanding that animals need nutrition to survive.
• identifying the function of skeletons and muscles.

Rocks

• comparing and grouping rocks.
• investigating fossils.
• recognising how soil is made.

Light

• understanding that dark is the absence of light.
• investigating light reflection from surfaces.
• looking at how shadows are formed and how they change.

Forces and magnets

• understanding magnetic attraction and repulsion.
• determining which materials are magnetic.
• understanding that magnets have two poles.