
Autumn
Geography
Topic - Trade
Key Skills/Knowledge
- explain what trading is
- explain the difference between imports and exports
- list some goods exported from the UK
- list some goods imported to the UK
- name some countries the UK exports goods to
- name some countries the UK imports goods from
- use an atlas to find countries
- locate El Salvador on a world map
- name some goods exported from El Salvador to the UK
- list some products that are fairly traded
- describe how goods can be the product of more than one country
- describe how trade takes place today
- describe how trade took place in Tudor and Victorian times
Key Vocabulary
- trade
- import
- export
- key
- El Salvador
- trading
- fair trade
- Fairtrade
- globalisation
- trade
- Tudor
- Victorian
- British Empire
Science
Topic - Light
Key Skills/Knowledge
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recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines
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use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye
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explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes
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use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them
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Thomas Young (1773 – 1829) – Wave theory of light. Double-slit experiment.
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Sir David Brewster (1781 – 1868) - Deduced ``Brewster's law'' giving the angle of incidence that produces reflected light which is completely polarized; invented the kaleidoscope and the stereoscope, and improved the spectroscope
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Jean-Bernard-Leon Foucault (1819-1868) – Accurately measured the speed of light
Key Vocabulary
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Simple comparisons: dark, dull, bright, very bright
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Comparative vocabulary: brighter, duller, and darker
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Superlative vocabulary: brightest, dullest, and darkest
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Opaque, translucent, transparent
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Shadow – block, absence of light
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Reflect – bounce, mirror, reflection
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See – light source
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Sun – sunset, sunrise, position