Four statutory statements from the National Curriculum in England, quoted word for word, and four NGSS performance expectations, linked — each with the lessons and pages here that can help you teach it.
This page is a map from curriculum wording to the lessons and pages on this site. The UK statements are quoted exactly as the Department for Education publishes them on gov.uk, under the Open Government Licence. We did not rewrite, shorten or summarise them, and the link under each goes to the section it came from.
The US performance expectations are linked rather than quoted. When we checked, nextgenscience.org answered our request with an automated check instead of the page, so we could not read its terms of use. Without them, we show each code and the title of its page, and send you to the official wording.
Which page fits which statement is our teaching choice. It is not an accreditation, and no exam board or standards body has reviewed it. Read the statement, open the page, and judge the fit for your class.
The age range and timings are teaching choices, not curriculum accreditation.
science programmes of study
Upper key stage 2 – years 5 and 6 › Year 6 programme of study › Evolution and inheritance
Pupils should be taught to:
recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago
Linked, not quoted: nextgenscience.org served an automated check instead of its terms of use, so we could not confirm that quoting is permitted. The title shown is the title of the official page; read the performance expectation there.
