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The document outlines the Year 5 Science curriculum for St Peter's Catholic Primary School, focusing on Earth and Space. It includes key vocabulary and facts about the sun, moon, planets, and their movements, as well as the concept of orbits and the solar system. Students will learn to describe these celestial bodies and their interactions by the end of the topic.

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Year 5 Science Summer 1 Ko Earth Space.351153948.pdf351153948

The document outlines the Year 5 Science curriculum for St Peter's Catholic Primary School, focusing on Earth and Space. It includes key vocabulary and facts about the sun, moon, planets, and their movements, as well as the concept of orbits and the solar system. Students will learn to describe these celestial bodies and their interactions by the end of the topic.

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St Peter’s Catholic Primary School Year 5 Science

Earth and Space


What I should already know:
Vocabulary
• The sun is a light source. Star A giant ball of gas held together by its
own gravity. The sun is a star which
• The moon is not a light source, it is a the planets in our solar system orbit
reflection from the sun. around.
• When sunlight is blocked by an opaque Planet A large object, round or nearly round,
that orbits a star.
object it creates a shadow.
Satellite Any object or body in space that orbits
something else.
At the end of this topic, I will know:
•describe the movement of the Earth and Key Facts: Orbit It’s the repeating path of
other planets relative to the sun in the solar There are 8 planets that orbit (travel) around the movement around something.
system
sun. Sphere A round 3D shape like a ball.
•describe the movement of the moon relative
to the Earth Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are mostly made up of
•describe the sun, Earth and moon as metal and rock. Spherical Astronomical objects shaped like
approximately spherical bodies bodies spheres.
•use the idea of the Earth’s rotation to explain Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are mostly made
day and night and the apparent movement of of gases such as helium and hydrogen. Their cores are Solar system The solar system is made up of the
the sun across the sky made of rock and metal still! eight planets that orbit our sun; it is
also made up of asteroids, moons,
Earth takes 365¼ days to complete it’s orbit around
comets and lots more.
the sun.
Orbit It’s the repeating path of
The earth rotates on its axis every 24hours. As it movement around something.
rotates 1/2 faces the sun (day) and half faces away Axis An imaginary line that something
from the sun (night). rotates around. E.g. Earth’s axis
The moon orbits the Earth, this takes about 28 days runs from the North Pole to South
to complete. Pole.
Astronomy The study of outer space. People
Pluto used to be considered as a planet, but in
who study this are called
2006 was reclassified as a dwarf planet. astronomers.

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