Southern Road Primary School
Staff Science Knowledge Audit
Please take a few minutes to answer the following questions to the best of your knowledge. The questions have been created based upon the content of the new Science Programmes of Study: Key Stages 1 and 2. Once you have completed and returned the audit, the information collected will be used to highlight school strengths and areas which require development within our Science Curriculum; helping us to plan and prepare for an effective launch of the new curriculum.
Thank you for your time and co-operation.
Plants
1. Match the following names to their correct descriptions.
Seasonal shedding of leaves.
Plants that has leaves during all four seasons.
The beginning of plant growth.
2. Label the following plant parts:
3. What do most seeds and bulbs need to grow?
4. Match the following names to their correct descriptions.
The transfer of pollen during the reproduction of plants.
A way of transporting seeds.
The final stage in the reproduction of plants.
5. What requirements do most plants need to survive and grow?
______
Animas, including humans
1. Give an example of the following groups of animals:
Amphibian - ______
Mammals - ______
Reptiles - ______
2. Match the correct names to their definitions:
Meat eaters.
Plant eaters.
Meat and plant eaters.
3. Label the following food groups:
4. Match the following name to the correct definition:
Teeth used for grinding.
Teeth used for cutting and shredding.
Teeth used for tearing food.
5. Label the following using the terms predator, producer and prey.
______
Are any consumers? Why?
______
6. Give an example of the following:
Vertebrate - ______
Invertebrate - ______
7. Label the following diagram of the digestive system.
Materials and their properties
1. Match the following name to the correct definition.
Does not let light pass through.
Let’s light through.
Let’s some light through.
2. Draw the particles of each material below.
SolidLiquidGas
3. Tick the following processes if the changes that occur can be re-versed:
Burning___
Melting___
Evaporating___
Rusting___
Dissolving___
4.What is the name of the material produce when a solid is dissolved into a liquid?
Earth and Space
1. Name the 8 planets.
2. Which planet has been re-named a dwarf planet?
3. Draw a diagram to represent the the movement of the earth, sun and moon below:
Electricity
1. Label the components in the following circuit:
2. Are the following materials conductors (C) or insulators (I) ? Label with a C or I.
Rubber______
Aluminium______
Plastic______
Copper______
Steel______
Pure water______
3. Tick the circuits which would work:
4. Complete the following circuit, so that it is complete.
5. What factors could affect the brightness of a bulb in a circuit.
Light
1. Name 2 sources of the following:
Natural light - ______
Man made light - ______
2. Draw the arrows onto the below diagram below to show how the apple can be seen.
sun
Forces and Magnets
1. Tick the sets of magnets that will attract.
2. Draw the forces acting upon this falling apple.
3. Which parachute jumper will reach the ground first? Why?
______
4. Which surface cause the most friction when walked upon? Tick.
Laminate floor
Carpet
Tarmac
Sandpaper
Foam
Why?______
Kayleigh Cowx
October 2013