year: Year 6
Pupil video: Birds
Pupil video: Carl Linnaeus
introduces pupils to Carl Linnaeus and how he created a universal system for sorting and classifying all living things, solving the confusion caused by scientists using different methods
Teacher video: Classification keys
This Science video introduces teachers to using and creating classification keys to sort organisms based on similarities and differences. It explains how branching keys use a series of yes/no questions to guide users towards identifying an organism, and demonstrates the process with a worked example of sorting vertebrates. Pupils are shown how to follow a key accurately and how to create their own by thinking of questions that divide groups into two smaller groups at each step.
Pupil video: How does the mirror know?
This Kapow pupil video is part of the Kapow Science scheme of work. Have you ever hidden an object behind paper and wondered how a mirror still shows it? You can see something like a plant because light reflects off it and into your eyes. But when you’re standing directly in front, the light can’t bounce off the plant, hit the mirror, and reach your eyes all at once.
Teacher video: Light and reflection
This Science video introduces teachers to the key learning in this unit, where pupils explore how light behaves and how shadows form. Light is a store of energy that travels in waves and does not need particles to move, which is why it can travel through space.
Pupil video: Investigating reflected light
To spot patterns in reflection, it helps to use a narrow beam, like a laser. Never shine it into someone’s eyes
Pupil video: How does the mirror know?
If you hide an object behind paper, how does the mirror still show it? You can see the plant in front of the paper because light reflects off it and into your eyes
