LANCASTER SCHOOL CURRICULUM

 

 

 

PROGRAMME OF STUDY: Science

 

 

 

 

 

Primary/Secondary Transition: 6o de Primaria - F1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Knowledge, skills and understanding

Overview:

 

Students arrive at the school with few of the practical skills they need for science.  They will throughout the course of the year learn most of these skills for the first time in a laboratory.  The course outline allows for most of these skills to be developed during the year

 

Students will spend much of this year learning new skills in the laboratory

 

 

General science

 

q       Introduction to the laboratory

 

q       The universe

 

q       Forces and electricity

 

q       Changing earth

 

Biological science

 

q       Cells and Keys

 

q       Food and digestion

 

q       Human growth and development

q       Substance abuse

 

 

 

 

 

Breadth of Study

Curricular Links:

 

There are links to geography in changing earth

 

 

 

General science

 

q       Students carry out a wide range of practical activities of

 

varying complexity

 

q       Display and poster work

 

q       Research and report writing

 

q       Practical investigation

 

q       Analysis and evaluation

 

Biological science

 

q       Classification and identification

 

q       Discussion

 

q       group work and role play