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Topic TitleGetting the Energy your Body Needs.Looking at Plants and Ecosystems.Explaining Physical Changes.Exploring Contact and Non-Contact Forces.Magnetism and Electricity.
Explaining Physical Changes.Explaining Chemical Changes.
Key Skills and Content•   The skeleton.•   Healthy plants: Survival and Growth.•    Using the particle model to explain properties, and physical or chemical changes.•     Gravity and space travel.•     How magnets work.
•   Muscles.•   Food chains & relationships in the environment.•    Acids, alkalis, indicators and reactions.•     Electrostatic and magnetic forces.•     Electromagnets.
•   Aerobic respiration.•   States of matter & the particle model.•    Combustion.•     Pressure, floating and sinking.•     Explaining electric circuits.
•   Anaerobic respiration.•     Series and parallel circuits.
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