Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Cambridge Primary: Science Curriculum (Age 5)

SCIENTIFIC ENQUIRY

Ideas and evidence
• Try to answer questions by collecting evidence through observation.
Plan investigative work
• Ask questions and contribute to discussions about how to seek answers.
• Make predictions.
• Decide what to do to try to answer a science question.
Obtain and present evidence
• Explore and observe in order to collect evidence (measurements and observations) to answer questions.
• Suggest ideas and follow instructions.
• Record stages in work.
Consider evidence and approach
• Make comparisons.
• Compare what happened with predictions.
• Model and communicate ideas in order to share, explain and develop them.

BIOLOGY

Plants
• Know that plants are living things.
• Know that there are living things and things that have never been alive.
• Explore ways that different animals and plants inhabit local environments.
• Name the major parts of a plant, looking at real plants and models.
• Know that plants need light and water to grow.
• Explore how seeds grow into flowering plants.

Humans and animals
• Recognize the similarities and differences between each other.
• Recognize and name the main external parts of the body.
• Know about the need for a healthy diet, including the right types of food and water.
• Explore how senses enable humans and animals to be aware of the world around them.
• Know that humans and animals produce offspring which grow into adults.

CHEMISTRY

Material properties
• Use senses to explore and talk about different materials.
• Identify the characteristics of different materials.
• Recognize and name common materials.
• Sort objects into groups based on the properties of their materials.

PHYSICS

Forces
• Explore, talk about and describe the movement of familiar things.
• Recognize that both pushes and pulls are forces.
• Recognize that when things speed up, slow down or change direction there is a cause.

Sound
• Identify many sources of sound.
• Know that we hear when sound enters our ear.
• Recognize that as sound travels from a source it becomes fainter.

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