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Course Curriculum
The course objectives cover the teaching skills in the following main areas:
- Plants & Animals
- Matter & its Changes
- Force & Machines
- Water
- Earth Sciences
- The Universe & Life
- In order to teach the skills in this subject, the course uses a variety of teaching techniques to insure the mastery of the mentioned skills. In addition, there will be a focus on the correct applications of the mentioned skills and acquired knowledge.
- The various teaching techniques will encompass: video narration, video lectures, advanced graphics and animations, interactive exercises, games, interactive explanations, various evaluation methods, and internet exams.
Below are highlights of the curriculum content, curriculum chapters, and science skills that are covered in the course.
Chapter One: Matter & its Changes
Specifying the properties of matter in the solid phase, specifying the properties of matter in the liquid phase, specifying the properties of matter in the gas phase, explaining how to use a balance scale to measure the mass of materials, specifying the units for measuring mass, specifying the tools for measuring mass, distinguishing between the units of measuring mass, clarifying the relationship between the kilogram and gram, clarifying the relationship between mass and size for objects made of the same material, clarifying the relationship between mass and size for objects made of different materials, classifying matter changes into physical or chemical changes, understanding physical changes, understanding chemical changes, providing examples of physical changes, providing examples of chemical changes, classifying physical changes as either beneficial or harmful, classifying chemical changes as either beneficial or harmful
Chapter Two: Plant Parts & their Functions
Specifying the functions of the roots, specifying the kinds of roots, specifying the functions of the stem, specifying the kinds of stems, providing examples of plants with edible roots, providing examples of plants with edible stems, specifying the importance of leaves, specifying the parts of leaves, specifying the kinds of leaves, specifying the parts of the flower, providing examples of plants whose leaves are edible, specifying the part that is responsible for providing the plant with nutrition, understanding how plants make their own food, highlighting the importance of plant parts in making plant food, specifying the importance of plants to animals and humans, specifying the importance of animals and humans to plants
Chapter Three: Force & Machines
Specifying the types of force, specifying the sources of force, providing examples of force and its sources, highlighting the effect of force on static objects, highlighting the effect of force on moving objects, highlighting the effect of mass on force, highlighting the effect of force on an object’s speed, classifying machines as simple or complex, understanding simple machines, providing examples of simple machines, specifying the types of simple machines ( lever, pulley, inclined surface, wheel), understanding inclined surfaces, providing examples of inclined surfaces in our lives, understanding levers, providing examples of levers in our lives, specifying the benefits of levers (accuracy in work, minimizing effort, safety at work), understanding wheels, providing examples of wheel uses in our lives, understanding pulleys, providing examples of uses of pulleys in our lives
Chapter Four: The Universe & Life
Understanding the Sun, specifying the properties of the Sun, specifying the importance of the Sun in our lives, the definition of a planet, understanding the solar system, specifying the planets in the solar system, specifying the properties of planet Earth, specifying the reasons why planet Earth has life on it, The definition of the moon, specifying the properties of the moon, explaining why the moon’s shape changes, mentioning the phases of the moon (new moon, crescent moon, etc.), specifying the times for the moon’s phases, explaining how night and day happen, specifying the importance of night and day in our lives
Chapter Five: Water
Classifying water sources as either surface water or groundwater, understanding surface water, understanding groundwater, providing examples of surface water sources, providing examples of groundwater sources, providing examples of how humans store rainwater , classifying water as freshwater or saltwater, understanding freshwater, understanding saltwater, specifying the properties of saltwater and freshwater, explaining how saltwater can become drinkable, explaining the natural water cycle, explaining the processes involved in the natural water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection), specifying the types of precipitation ( rain, snow, hail)
Chapter Six: Earth Sciences
Specifying the three layers of the Earth (crust, mantle, core), specifying the properties of the Earth’s crust, specifying the properties of the mantle, specifying the properties of the core, understanding earthquakes, explaining how earthquakes can shape the Earth’s surface, mentioning the safety protocols that must be followed during an earthquake, understanding volcanoes, classifying volcanoes based on their activity (active, dormant, extinct), explaining how volcanoes can shape the Earth’s surface, explaining how running water can shape the Earth’s surface, specifying the importance of rainwater in shaping the Earth’s surface, mentioning the ways in which running water can affect the Earth’s surface (erosion, transport, sedimentation), explaining how wind can change the Earth’s surface (erosion), understanding sand dunes, explaining how sand dunes are created, specifying how humans can change the Earth’s surface (carving, drilling, etc.), specifying how animals can change the Earth’s surface, specifying how plants can change the Earth’s surface
Chapter Seven: Animals
Understanding classification of animals, clarifying the importance of classifying animals into groups, classifying animals into groups (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish), specifying the common traits between groups of living organisms, specifying the properties of mammals, specifying the properties of birds, specifying the properties of reptiles, specifying the properties of amphibians, specifying the properties of fish
Chapter Eight: The Relationship Between Living Organisms and the Environmen
Specifying the natural factors that affect the environment, specifying the effect of natural factors on the environment, understanding adaptation, classifying how living organisms adapt to their environment as either physical adaptation or behavioral adaptation, clarifying how living organisms can adapt to their environments using physical adaptation, clarifying how living organisms can adapt to their environments using behavioral adaptation
