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Working Scientifically and Scientific Enquiry for KS1 and KS2

Everything for Working Scientifically and Scientific Enquiry in one place. The six progression displays are free to download. Below them you will find the blog posts that explain each strand and each enquiry type, and the planning packs for your classroom.

Free Progression Displays

Working Scientifically Progression Map KS1 KS2 Display: Drawing Conclusions and Evaluating

Working Scientifically Progression Map KS1 KS2 Display: Drawing Conclusions and Evaluating

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Working Scientifically Progression Map KS1 KS2 Display: Recording and Presenting Data

Working Scientifically Progression Map KS1 KS2 Display: Recording and Presenting Data

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Working scientifically progression display header panel: setting up tests from Year 1 to Year 6

Working Scientifically Progression Map KS1 KS2 Display: Setting Up Tests

Working Scientifically Progression Map KS1 KS2 Display: Setting Up Tests

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Working scientifically progression display header panel: identifying and classifying from Year 1 to Year 6

Working Scientifically Progression Map KS1 KS2 Display: Identifying and Classifying

Working Scientifically Progression Map KS1 KS2 Display: Identifying and Classifying

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Working Scientifically Progression Map KS1 KS2 Display: Asking Questions and Planning

Working Scientifically Progression Map KS1 KS2 Display: Asking Questions and Planning

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Working scientifically progression display header panel: observing and measuring from Year 1 to Year 6, with the six year group statements

Working Scientifically Progression Map KS1 KS2 Display: Observing and Measuring

Working Scientifically Progression Map KS1 KS2 Display: Observing and Measuring

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Working Scientifically: How Each Skill Grows

Progression in working scientifically from Year 1 to Year 6, with three progression displays
What Does Progression in Working Scientifically Look Like from Year 1 to Year 6?
A clear picture of progression lets a subject leader explain, in a few minutes, how science builds from Year 1 to Year 6. It also shows teachers what their class already knows and where the learning is heading. Working scientifically is one of the e...
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Observing and measuring progression display from Year 1 to Year 6
Observing and Measuring: How Does This Develop from Year 1 to Year 6?
Observation is one of the first scientific skills children develop. Young children are naturally observant, but scientific observation requires them to become increasingly deliberate about what they notice, how they record it and what they do with t...
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Identifying and classifying progression display from Year 1 to Year 6
Identifying and Classifying: How Does This Develop from Year 1 to Year 6?
Identifying and classifying is both a working scientifically skill and one of the five types of scientific enquiry. The enquiry article looks at when classification is the right way to answer a question. This article looks at the skill itself: what ...
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Asking questions and planning progression display from Year 1 to Year 6
Asking Questions and Planning: How Does Independence Develop from Year 1 to Year 6?
Scientific enquiry begins with a question, but asking a scientific question is a skill that develops considerably during primary school. Planning is where that question turns into something a child can actually investigate, and it is one of the clea...
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Setting up tests progression display from Year 1 to Year 6
Setting Up Tests: How Does This Develop from Year 1 to Year 6?
There is an important difference between knowing how to carry out an investigation and being able to make sensible decisions while doing it. Setting up tests is where children learn to do both. What the National Curriculum says In Years 1 and 2, chi...
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Recording and presenting data progression display from Year 1 to Year 6
Recording and Presenting Data: How Does This Develop from Year 1 to Year 6?
Children can collect a great deal of scientific information without necessarily knowing how to organise it. Recording data is therefore an important part of learning how scientists turn observations and measurements into usable evidence. The progres...
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Drawing conclusions and evaluating progression display from Year 1 to Year 6
Drawing Conclusions and Evaluating: How Does This Develop from Year 1 to Year 6?
A conclusion connects the evidence to the question. "The answer was 25 cm" is a result. A conclusion says what that result tells us, and evaluating asks how far we can trust it. What the National Curriculum says In Years 1 and 2, children should be ...
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Scientific Enquiry: The Five Types from Year 1 to Year 6

Progression in scientific enquiry from Year 1 to Year 6, with primary science planning slides
What Does Progression in Scientific Enquiry Look Like from Year 1 to Year 6?
A clear picture of progression lets a subject leader explain how science develops across a primary school. It also helps teachers answer two important questions: what do my learners already know, and what do they need to learn next? These questions ...
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Observing over time from Year 1 to Year 6, with a primary science planning slide
Progression in Science: Observing Over Time from Year 1 to Year 6
How does a child move from noticing that something has changed to using observations over time to answer a scientific question? This is an important part of primary science because the world doesn't always give us an answer immediately. Some changes...
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Pattern seeking from Year 1 to Year 6, with a primary science planning slide
Progression in Science: Pattern Seeking from Year 1 to Year 6
A pattern is something children notice all the time. The days get longer in summer. Some materials feel colder than others. Tall plants might have more leaves. The further a light source moves from an object, the smaller its shadow may become. Notic...
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Identifying, classifying and grouping from Year 1 to Year 6, with a primary science planning slide
Progression in Science: Identifying, Classifying and Grouping from Year 1 to Year 6
Classification begins very simply. A child can put all the red objects together. They can put animals with wings in one group and animals without wings in another. Scientific classification becomes much more sophisticated than sorting things accordi...
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Comparative and fair testing from Year 1 to Year 6, with primary science planning slides
Progression in Science: Comparative and Fair Testing from Year 1 to Year 6
Fair testing is probably the type of scientific enquiry most familiar to primary teachers. Change one thing. Keep other things the same. Measure what happens. It is an important part of science, but it is only one of the types of scientific enquiry....
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Research using secondary sources from Year 1 to Year 6, with a primary science planning slide
Progression in Science: Research Using Secondary Sources from Year 1 to Year 6
There are some scientific questions that children cannot answer by carrying out a practical investigation themselves. They cannot safely observe a blue whale in the classroom. They cannot travel back in time to observe a dinosaur. They cannot watch ...
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Planning Packs for Your Classroom

Science Book Stickers for KS1 and KS2: Scientific Enquiry and Working Scientifically

Science Book Stickers for KS1 and KS2: Scientific Enquiry and Working Scientifically

£3.99

Working Scientifically Skills Pack for KS1 and KS2: Skill Slides, Model Answers and Progression

Working Scientifically Skills Pack for KS1 and KS2: Skill Slides, Model Answers and Progression

£9.99

Scientific Enquiry Planning Pack for KS1 and KS2: Planning Slides, Model Answers and Tracker

Scientific Enquiry Planning Pack for KS1 and KS2: Planning Slides, Model Answers and Tracker

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Is There Anything Else You Need?

Let me know if there is anything else you need for working scientifically or enquiry in your school. You can also find my free science templates on Canva.

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