Getting to know Assessment Focus 2

Understanding the applications and implications of science This theme is about assessing children’s understanding of: how science is used to help people The benefits and drawbacks of science The effect of science on people The role of a scientist

Assessment Grid for AF2

AF2 Applications, implications of science Using science to help people The benefits and drawbacks of science The effect of science on people The role of a scientist Themes that are developed through this focus Atomic Scientist ?

Theme: The effect of science on people 5Identify ethical or moral issues linked to scientific or technological developments 5Indicate how scientific or technological developments may affect different groups of people in different ways 3Identify aspects of our lives, or of the work that people do, which are based on scientific ideas 2Express personal feelings/opinions about scientific or technological phenomena 2 Describe, in familiar contexts, how science helps people do things 2 electricity is dangerous because it can give you a shock. 2 Farmers and gardeners use fertiliser to help grow plants.

Theme: Using science to help people 4Recognise applications of specific scientific ideas 3Link applications to specific characteristics or properties 1 Identify a link to science in familiar domestic and environmental items 1 Electricity make the washing machine work 3 Fridge and kitchen doors use the attractive power of magnets to hold doors shut 4 Recognises that evaporation produces important substances such as salt and sugar

Theme: The role of a scientist 4Identify aspects of science used within particular jobs or roles 2 Identify people who use science to help us 4 Farmers and gardeners use science to grow increased amounts of fruit and vegetables. They use knowledge of plants, growing conditions and fertilizers. 2 Nurses and Doctors use their knowledge of the human body to help patients recover.

Theme: The benefits and drawbacks of science 5 Describe different viewpoints a range of people may have about scientific or technological developments 4 Describe some simple positive and negative consequences of scientific and technological developments 3 Explain the purposes of a variety of scientific or technological developments 2 Identify scientific or technological phenomena and say whether or not they are helpful 1 Recognise scientific and technological developments that help us. 'sparks from carpets or jumpers'

Examples of activities that provide AF2 opportunities KS2KS1

Using Primary UPD8 to provide AF2 evidence Starter questions What are glaciers? What do glaciers have to do with the sea level? What happens if the sea level falls? Rises? This is an information page showing the effects of climate change. What do the images show? What effect will this have on us and our lives?

Activity Discussion Questions: What do you think will happen to the water level in each case? Children can mark on the diagram where you think the new water level will be. Which set-up is most like the case of the glacier melting? What will affect the rate of melting? Task: Children could work in pairs to make their predictions, Whole class discussion of their predictions and explanations of what actually happens to the water level and why. How does this relate to sea levels? What will this mean for all of us? Using Primary UPD8 to provide AF2 evidence

How an assessment focus can be used Some children may want to question whether warming is solely caused by human action Presentations and explanations on the impact of global warming that link it to human activity are Level 5 Some children may want to explain how costal communities are more at risk Children able to explain that greenhouse gases warm up the atmosphere and so melt glaciers Where evidence can be found from this task?

Discussion questions: What might be happening in the picture? What can you see? What is mains electricity? Ask children to name some appliances that require electricity to work? What advantages do we have using electricity? What happened? Are the cat and mouse ok? What is a blackout? What do we know about circuits? How do we know if a circuit isn’t working? Why do we use batteries? Where else have you seen + & - signs? Task: Ask the children to make them work and describe and explain how they did this. In addition, give children drawings of circuits and ask them to predict whether they will work eg by making a bulb light up. Ask children to construct the circuits to test their predictions, make a record of their results and explain what happened. Using Primary UPD8 to provide AF2 evidence

Children’s response to the assessment focus Identify devices that use electricity Children able to explain how electricity can help us Explain that electricians use science to help people Where evidence can be found from this task?