|
|
|
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 |
|
|
|
|
|