This unit is aimed at year three and aims to fulfill the objectives:
Identify that animals, including humans, cannot make their own food.
Recognize that animals, including humans, get nutrition from what they eat.
Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types of nutrition.
Identify that animals, including humans, need a balanced diet.
Each of the following topics is covered using a presentation and is followed by worksheets with activities:
Animals, including humans - nutrition
Animals, including humans – What is nutrition? Vitamins and proteins
Animals, including humans – What is nutrition? Carbohydrates, fibre and water
Animals, including humans – How much is enough?
Eight lessons using power point presentations to discuss:
Theories about earth and space
The Big Bang Theory
Our Galaxy
The formation of our solar System
Planets
Day and Night on Earth
Season
The Moon
There are worksheets for each lesson.
ANIMALS, including HUMANS: Growth, Survival and Health
Power point slides are used to introduce each of four topics in this unit:
* Growing … growing , growing
Life Cycles
What animals need to live
What we need to keep healthy*
Each topic is followed by activities to reinforce the concepts presented.
This has been used mainly with 6 to 8 year olds.
Seven lessons with power point presentations and lesson activities in worksheet form.
Topics:
The main internal organs
Blood
Heart
Blood vessels
Respiration
Lungs
Exercise for the heart and lungs
Lesson activities include:
Comprehension activities; Expression of opinion giving reasons; Survey on healthy lifestyle; Planning exercise; Drawing and labeling diagrams.
This set of power Point presentations and worksheets should be used with your rock and soil samples to enable students:
to visualise how the three types of rocks are formed and relate this to the rock samples they have
to compare and group together different kinds of rocks on the basis of their appearance and simple physical properties
to recognise that soils are made from rocks and organic matter.
to explore different soils and identify similarities and differences between them and
to investigate what happens when rocks are rubbed together
The lessons are:
Sedimentary Rock
Igneous Rock
Metamorphic Rock
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - colour
Grouping and Sorting Rocks – lustre
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - hardness
Grouping and Sorting Rocks - cleavage
Grouping and Sorting Rocks – minerals and crystals
What is Soil?
In the course of seven presentations and seven worksheets, this unit helps students 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
recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents
identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution
Fossils as scientific evidence
Mary Anning
Adaptation
Evolution
Charles Darwin
Genetics Chromosomes and DNA
Reproduction and inheritance
A power point slide series and worksheet aimed to enable students to explain the popular theory of how the moon was formed and to discuss how the moon affects life on earth.
This is a useful resource for beginning the science curriculum with students in Year 4
Topics:
Finding knowledge
Prediction and Hypothesis
A Fair Test
Setting up a Science Experiment
Collecting data
Analyzing and drawing conclusions
The Scientific process in discovering our COVID vaccines
There are seven power point presentations, seven worksheets and notes for students.
ELECTRICITY
Used for 10 to 11 year olds, this interesting unit is presented using power point slides and worksheets with activities to support learning.
Topics:
Reminder - What is electricity?
Current and Voltage?
Important electrical components
Investigating voltage and electrical conductors
The power of fruit and vegetables
Investigating resistance
Making a wire loop game
Drawing circuits
Making circuits work
A unit in which students explore and identify the way sound is made through vibration and find out how the pitch and volume of sounds can be changed.
Using power point presentations, practical activities and worksheets, students
identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating
recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear
find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it
find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it
recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.
This unit has been used mainly with 8 to 9 year old students.
The activities require some everyday items including some musical instruments for the students to work with.
PLANTS RESOURCES and LESSON OUTLINES
Growing Seeds
• “Bean Book” to print
• Calendar to print
Observing and recording changes
Caring for a plant
Seeds
• Power Point – Seeds and Plants
• Matching cards
Parts of a plant
• Large and small labels
Trees
• PowerPoint – evergreen and deciduous trees
• Tree life cycle worksheets
• Parts of a tree worksheet
What makes plants grow?
• Worksheet
• PowerPoint – what do plants need to grow?
The curriculum revisits the topic of LIGHT at different stages of the Student’s development. Students build on their prior learning to assimilate new concepts. This unit extends the concepts and ideas studied at about age 7 to 9.
It covers the topics:
How light appears
How we see
Shadows and light
Reflections
Making a periscope
Refraction
Power point presentations scaffold students through the concepts, investigations and activities. Activities are presented in worksheet form with notes and areas for diagrams, comprehension and recording of investigations.
Used mainly with 5 to 7 year olds, this unit uses power point slides and worksheets to encourage students to:
identify, name, draw and label the basic parts of the human body and say which part of the body is associated with each sense
identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
describe and compare the structure of a variety of common animals (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals including pets)
identify and name a variety of common animals that are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores
Please note that for the section on senses (one set of worksheets) some everyday objects need to be provided for practical exploration. They are listed on the contents page thumbnail and on the Set 2 worksheets.
Working Scientifically 5 is a good introduction to scientific methods and terminology.
It covers:
Creativity in Science
Planning to experiment
The main variables that may affect investigative results
Communicating conclusions
Evaluating accuracy of conclusions
Five presentations are used to illustrate the important concepts above. Each is followed by activities for learning in worksheet form.
Animals including Humans: Eating and Digestion:
There are eight presentations, plus corresponding notes and worksheets for students.
They cover the following topics:
Eco systems – consumers and producers
Consumers in the food chain
Human teeth
Teeth in animals
Mouth and the tongue
The Throat and Oesophagus
The stomach and intestines
The different ways that animals digest food
Use the six power point presentations to introduce your students to the scientific methodology and concepts:
How Science has had a positive and negative effect over time
Following the Scientific Method
Exploring scientific ideas
Getting accurate results
Recording and concluding
Limitations of tests
Follow up with the six sets of notes and worksheets for each lesson.
**Living Things and their Habitats **is a comprehensive 16 lesson unit covering the following topics:
The Environment
Habitats
Flowering and Non-Flowering plants
Classification of animals
Vertebrates: Mammals
Vertebrates: Birds
Vertebrates: Reptiles
Vertebrates: Fish
Vertebrates: Amphibians
Invertebrates: Insects
Invertebrates: Spiders
Invertebrates: Worms
Invertebrates: Slugs
Micro-organisms
Micro-organisms and health
Differences between animals, plants and micro-organisms
Each of the above topics has a power point presentation, notes and a worksheet.
This ten-part series uses power point presentations and worksheet activities to cover
Sexual and asexual reproduction
Reproduction in flowering plants
Flowering plants life cycles
Reproduction in non-flowering plants
Mammal life cycles
Bird life cycle
Amphibian life cycle
Insect life cycles
Work project - differences in life cycles
*Richard Attenborough
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Students identify that: humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement in a four-part teaching pack.
Slides supported by worksheet sets with learning activities, cover the topics:
What is a skeleton?
Why do we need a skeleton? – Protection
Why do we need a skeleton? – Support
Why do we need a skeleton? – Movement
With nine power point presentations and nine worksheets for the unit***** Plants***** for 7 to 8 year olds, this unit covers the topics:
What do the parts of plants do?
What do plants need to grow well?
Do plants really need water to grow? Experimenting
Do plants really need light to grow? Experimenting
Do different plants have different needs?
How does water move around a plant?
What are flowers for? Pollination
What are flowers for? Producing seeds
Seed dispersal
The lesson objectives are clearly stated at the start of each lesson.
Some simple items are needed for the investigations in lessons 3, 4 and 6.