Curriculum+Level+5+Science

=Curriculum levels=

=Level Five Science=

Nature of Science
Students will:

Understanding about science
• Understand that scientists’ investigations are informed by current scientific theories and aim to collect evidence that will be interpreted through processes of logical argument.

Investigating in science
• Develop and carry out more complex investigations, including using models. • Show an increasing awareness of the complexity of working scientifically, including recognition of multiple variables. • Begin to evaluate the suitability of the investigative methods chosen.

Communicating in science
• Use a wider range of science vocabulary, symbols, and conventions. • Apply their understandings of science to evaluate both popular and scientific texts (including visual and numerical literacy).

Participating and contributing
• Develop an understanding of socio-scientific issues by gathering relevant scientific information in order to draw evidence-based conclusions and to take action where appropriate.

Living World
Students will:

Life processes
• Identify the key structural features and functions involved in the life processes of plants and animals. • Describe the organisation of life at the cellular level.

Ecology
• Investigate the interdependence of living things (including humans) in an ecosystem.

Evolution
• Describe the basic processes by which genetic information is passed from one generation to the next.

Planet Earth and Beyond
Students will:

Earth systems
• Investigate the composition, structure, and features of the geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.

Interacting systems
• Investigate how heat from the Sun, the Earth, and human activities is distributed around Earth by the geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.

Astronomical systems
• Investigate the conditions on the planets and their moons, and the factors affecting them.

Physical World
Students will:

Physical inquiry and physics concepts
• Identify and describe the patterns associated with physical phenomena found in simple everyday situations involving movement, forces, electricity and magnetism, light, sound, waves, and heat.For example, identify and describe energy changes and conservation of energy, simple electrical circuits, and the effect of contact and non-contact on the motion of objects.

Using physics
• Explore a technological or biological application of physics.

Material World
Students will:

Properties and changes of matter
• Investigate the chemical and physical properties of different groups of substances, for example,acids and bases, fuels, and metals. • Distinguish between pure substances and mixtures and between elements and compounds.

The structure of matter
• Describe the structure of the atoms of different elements. • Distinguish between an element and a compound, a pure substance and a mixture at particle level.

Chemistry and society
• Link the properties of different groups of substances to the way they are used in society or occur in nature.