Science for Ages 8 to 10 Course

What you will learn in 9 lessons

1. 1

   Parts of a Plant

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   The child explains what each part of a flowering plant does, shows how water travels up a stem, and describes how flowers make seeds that are spread.

   5 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Explain what each part of a plant does
   2. 2.Show how water travels through a plant
   3. 3.Find out what plants need to live and grow
   4. 4.Explain how flowers are pollinated
   5. 5.Explain how flowers make seeds and how seeds spread
2. 2

   Life Cycles of Plants and Animals

   The child compares the life cycles of a mammal, a bird, an amphibian, an insect and a flowering plant, and describes simple sexual and asexual reproduction in plants.

   6 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Discover what a life cycle is
   2. 2.Follow the life cycles of mammals and birds
   3. 3.Explore metamorphosis in amphibians and insects
   4. 4.Follow the life cycle of a flowering plant
   5. 5.Grow new plants without seeds
   6. 6.Compare life cycles and see how they help living things survive
3. 3

   Teeth and Digestion

   The child names the main parts of the digestive system, describes the types of teeth and how to look after them, and follows food on its journey through the body.

   5 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Get to know your teeth
   2. 2.Keep your teeth and gums healthy
   3. 3.Name the parts of your digestive system
   4. 4.Follow food on its journey through your body
   5. 5.Put the whole journey together
4. 4

   Food Chains and Food Webs

   The child sorts living things into producers, consumers and decomposers, builds food chains and simple food webs, and explains that plants make food using sunlight.

   5 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Discover how plants make food from sunlight
   2. 2.Sort living things by how they get their food
   3. 3.Build and read food chains and food webs
   4. 4.Find out how decomposers break down dead things
   5. 5.See how everything in an ecosystem is connected
5. 5

   Classifying Living Things

   The child groups living things in several ways, uses and makes simple classification keys, and explains how changes to an environment can endanger living things.

   5 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Sort living things into groups
   2. 2.Group animals with and without a backbone
   3. 3.Group plants into flowering and non-flowering plants
   4. 4.Use and make classification keys
   5. 5.Explain how changes to environments can put living things in danger
6. 6

   Rocks, Soils and Fossils

   The child compares and groups rocks by appearance and simple tests, explains how fossils form, and finds out what soil is made of.

   5 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Look closely at rocks and test them
   2. 2.Find out how fossils form
   3. 3.Read the clues in fossils and rock layers
   4. 4.Find out what soil is and how it works
   5. 5.Discover how people use rocks, minerals and soil
7. 7

   States of Matter and the Water Cycle

   The child sorts materials as solids, liquids or gases, measures the temperatures at which water changes state, and explains evaporation and condensation in the water cycle.

   5 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Sort materials into solids, liquids and gases
   2. 2.Measure temperature with a thermometer
   3. 3.Explain melting, freezing and boiling
   4. 4.Explain evaporation and condensation
   5. 5.Follow water around the water cycle
8. 8

   Forms of Energy

   The child explains that faster things have more energy, that energy moves as light, sound, heat and electric current, and that fuels and the Sun are energy sources.

   5 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Spot energy and explain how it makes things move
   2. 2.Follow energy as it travels from place to place
   3. 3.Explain how heat moves and how we control it
   4. 4.Show that energy is not used up but passed on
   5. 5.Explore where our energy comes from and how using it affects the planet
9. 9

   Volcanoes and Earthquakes

   The child describes Earth's layers, explains how weathering and erosion slowly change land, and why volcanoes and earthquakes happen where they do, and how people reduce the harm.

   5 learning goals

   What you will learn

   1. 1.Explore what is inside the Earth
   2. 2.Explain how weathering and erosion slowly change the land
   3. 3.Explain how volcanoes and earthquakes change the land quickly
   4. 4.Use world maps to explain where volcanoes and earthquakes happen
   5. 5.Reduce the harm from volcanoes, earthquakes and other hazards