Month # Days Core standard Strand Content

Science The Earth's atmosphere

August 8 P6 C.1- P6 C.5 Periodicity 1.What Do We Know About The Atmosphere
2. What Makes Up The Weather
3. What Factors Affect Climate?
4. What Is Meteorology?
Hands On
5. How Do Humans Impact On The Atmosphere
6. What is the green house effect?
Activities
What Should You Know?
Chapter 2 The Hydrosphere
September 8 1. Where Is The Water On Earth?
2. What Are The Properties Of Water?
3. What Are The Properties Of Sea Water?
4. Where Is Fresh Water Found?
5. What Is The Water Cycle?
6. What Is Water Used For?
7. What Pollutes Water?
Hands On
October 8 Activities
What Should You Know?
Chapter 3 Minerals
1. What Are Minerals?
2. What Are Minerals Composed Of?
3. How are Minerals Extracted?
4. How Are Minerals Classified?
5. What Are The Properties Of Minerals?
November 8 Hands On
Activities
What Should You Know?
Chapter 4 Rocks
1. How Are Rocks Used?
2. What Are Rocks?
3. What Are Sedimentary Rocks?
4. How Are Sedimentary Rocks Formed?
5. How Are Igneous Rocks Formed?
December 4 6. How Are Metamorphic Rocks Formed?
7. What Is The Rock Cycle?
Hands On
Activities
What Should You Know?
January 8 It's Elementary! The First Ten Elemants
Chapter 5 Matter And It's Properties
1. What Is Matter?
2. What Is Length?
3. What Is Surface Area?
4. What Is Volume?
5. What Is Mass?
6. What Is Density?
February 4 7. What Are Temperature And Time?
Hands On
Activities
What Should You Know?
March 8 Chapter 6 Everything is Matter
1. Which are The States Of Matter?
2. How Can Matter Change It's State?
3. What Are Mixtures?
4. What Are Pure Substances?
5. What Are Physical And Chemical Changes?
Hands On
April 4 6. What Are Synthetic Materials?
7. Why Is Recycling Important?
Activities
What Should You Know?
Chapter 7 Atoms And Elements
1. What Is Matter Made Of?
2.What Are Elements?
May 6 3.How Are Elements Classified?
4.How Are Atoms Organised?
5. What Is A Chemical Formula?
6. Which Elements Can Be Found In Nature?
7. Why Are Elements Important?
Hands On
Skills Activities
Examining the origin and composition of the
atmosphere. Experiment :
Learning to describe the state of atmospheric To separate the components of a
conditions. naturally occurring mixture
Using examples for understanding such as sand, salt and water
Learning to record observations and results. Exercises
Critical thinking of our action's consequences Exam style question
Comparing
Learning to study a map
Understanding using a Diagram
Learn about water distribution
Using diagrams for understanding
Identification using properties
Reading recordings from a pie chart
Interpreting an illustration Experiment:
Interpreting an illustration
Comparison of the properties of a compound with those of its constituent
elements
Comparsion using diagrams Exam - style question
Analysing affective ways
Using examples for understanding Experiment:
Learning to read diagrams and illustrations E1 To carry out a gravimetric analysis of a
Understanding subtitles mixture to estimate its percentage composition
Contrasting photos
E2 To examine some physical properties of a range of common elements
and use them to classify these elements as metals, semi-metals or non-
metals
Using illustrations for analysing Exercises
Comparsion using diagrams Exam-style questions
Using daily activities for comparsion
Finding differences in illustrations Full treatment of the underlying theory
Comparison using diagrams
Learning to fill in a chart
Learning techniques for MCQ
Learning to use tables.
Using diagrams as examples
Using facts for understanding new vocabulary
Using a table to analyse facts
Using examples such as illustrations
Understanding subtitles of a chapter Quizzes
Using a table with facts and examples Exams
Using diagrams as explanation Handouts
Expressing a cycle in an illustration
Understanding of weathering processes
Obtaining information from the diagrams
Using a table for classification Quizzes
Exams
Observing causes of simple air reactions Handouts
Interpreting a drawing
Interpreting a graph
Interpreting using drawings
Contrasting using a table
Interpreting drawings and picture Exam style question
Explaining using diagrams HomeWork
Using a graph for recording time and temperature
Using diagrams to answer questions
Learning to summarize a chapter Experiments:
E1 The effect of light on silver salts
Explaining using diagrams E2 Electrolysis of water and its use in identifying water as a compound
Explaining using examples Exam style question
Classifying mixtures
Using diagrams for better understanding
Identifying a chemical reaction To develop and use skills for wrting chemical equation
Using table to list poroperties and uses
Using pie charts for categorizing
Testing classification
Using properties for identifying state of matter Handouts
Homework
Learning the structure of an atom.
Learning the Periodic Table of Elements
Using examples for classification
Using pie charts to present information
analysing important elements
Assessments
Performance in class
Quizzes
Laboratory assignment
Homework
Class performance
Handouts
Laboratory assignment
Quizzes
Homework
Class performance
Laboratory assignment
Home Work
Test Chapter 1
Class performance
Quizzes
Home Work
Chapter tesing
Class performance
Quizzes
Home Work
Class performance
Test Chapter 2
Chapter testing
Exercises
Home Work
Final exam