Illustrating Life Cycles
- 1. Flowering plant reproduction
- 2. Ways that plants reproduce asexually
- 3. Life Cycles: insect and amphibian
- 4. Mammalian and bird life cycles
- 5. Life cycles from around the world
- 6. Becoming natural scientists
Year 5/6 Science
The National Curriculum Year 5 and Year 6 Science objectives are covered by Hamilton's science scheme, with investigations, working scientifically, and meaningful outcomes embedded in every Block of this rolling two-year programme.
We recommend you follow Set A in one year and Set B in the next. See our blog about mixed year science.
We are sorry but we are no longer able to provide all Science Blocks free of charge. The first block suggested for each term remains free but others are now only available to Friends of Hamilton or to teachers in schools who subscribe. Friends and School Subscribers can also access year and block overviews, key concept/ background science documents and assessment grids.
Set A Blocks
The Human Species
- 1. Development: from foetus to child
- 2. Growth: adolescence and puberty
- 3. Growth: adults, old age and timelines
- 4. A healthy body
- 5. Blood and the heart
- 6. Transport systems
Electric Art
- 1. Electrical art challenge
- 2. Playing with electricity - circuits
- 3. Designs, ideas & drawing circuit diagrams
- 4. Taking a dimmer approach
- 5. Electric workshop action
- 6. Electrical art installation
Materials Consultants
- 1. Recycling challenge
- 2. Hot porridge and frozen yogurt
- 3. Packaging problems
- 4. Café Challenge
- 5. Toy shop challenge (electrical conductivity)
- 6. Snoring challenge (soundproofing)
Theatre Lighting Technicians
- 1. Shadow puppets: angles, shape, definition
- 2. Shadow puppets: colour and texture
- 3. Lighting effects: colour
- 4. Lighting effects: reflecting light
- 5. Lighting effects: illusions with mirrors
- 6. Theatrical interviews
Medical Manoeuvres
- 1. Mosquitoes and medicine
- 2. Medical materials
- 3. Welcome to the world!
- 4. The well-oiled human machine
- 5. Illumination station
- 6. Medical circuits
Set B Blocks
Special Effects Materials
- 1. Mud, glorious mud
- 2. Sweet soluble solutions
- 3. Creating explosive special effects
- 4. Ageing props (oxidation and burning)
- 5. Prosthetic wounds and fake blood
- 6. The future of special effects
Welcome to Force-Land
- 1. Bungee-jump: gravity and balanced forces
- 2. Rolling car ride: friction
- 3. Parachute ride: air resistance
- 4. Canyon ride: water resistance
- 5. Lift an 'Elephant' ride: levers and pulleys
- 6. Ferris wheel: gears
Survival of the Fittest
- 1. Play inheritance detectives
- 2. Mutations, adaptations and survival
- 3. Extreme survival and adaptations
- 4. Research the evolutionary pioneers!
- 5. Fossils and evolutionary trees
- 6. The traditional tale of the giraffe's neck
Space!
- 1. Heliocentricity vs geocentricity
- 2. Modelling the solar system
- 3. Night and day and the Shadow Ally
- 4. A moon month
- 5. Seasonal sensations
- 6. Entering the inquisition
The Classification Code
- 1. Meeting Linnaeus
- 2. Spot the odd one out
- 3. Sweet classification system
- 4. Back yard classification
- 5. Unusual creatures
- 6. New creature features: classification
Sensational Science
- 1. Mind-blowing mixtures
- 2. Sensational space behaviour
- 3. Fickle forces
- 4. Crazy creature classifications
- 5. Extraordinary evolution antics
- 6. Scientific disputes