2015 -16 5th Science Annualplan - Sreeja

June

Plant Life

• Reproduction in plants- Understand and identify different methods of reproduction in plants such as from stem, roots, seeds, leaves and spores.
• Seeds - Understand the structure of a seed and germination.
• Dispersal of seeds- Understand the importance of seed dispersal and identify the agents of seed dispersal.
• Uses of plants- Identify the uses of plants such as food crops, cash crops and for medicinal purposes

Changes around Us

• Everything around us is changing- Identify different changes around us and list it out.
• Classify the listed changes into slow and fast, reversible and irreversible changes
• Physical and chemical changes- Understand why changes are classified as physical and chemical. List out examples for those.

July

Air and water

• The earth is surrounded by air - Demonstrate air is present everywhere, understand moving air is wind
• Layers of atmosphere - Understands the classification of different layers of atmosphere briefly.
• Air is a mixture of various gases - Understand the different components of air such as different gases, moisture and pollutants.
• Air pollution - Reviewing causes of air pollution and the effects of air pollution.
• Water table - Reviewing the surface water content and the underground water
• Potable water - Understand the characteristics of it and different technique to remove impurities from water to make it potable.
• Water cycle - Understands the importance of water cycle in nature.

Animal Life

• Habitats of animals - Understands what habitat is and identify different habitats.
• Animals’ body have different kinds of covering - Identifying different body coverings of different animals and discuss about the advantages of them having different body covering in a particular habitat.
• Adaptation - Understand and discuss the different adaptations of animals in different habitats.
• Classification of animals - Classify animals into their different feeding habits.
• Animals breathe (both in micro and macro world)- Understand briefly different breathing organs in different animals such as lungs, gills,cell membrane, skin etc
• Animals movement (micro and macro world) - Understand briefly different locomotory organs different animals such as legs, wings, fins, body scales,cilia etc

August

Energy and Work

• Work is done a force is used to move something - Understand energy is the ability to do any work.
• Energy exists in different forms - Identifying different forms of energy such heat energy, energy stored in food (chemical energy), light energy etc.
• Energy can change from one form to another - Understand and identify the energy conversion happens during photosynthesis. Find out the energy conversion happens during different changes such as burning candle, burning firewood, cooking food etc.
• Machines make work easier - Understand the uses of simple machines in our daily life and

Our Environment

• Environment and its components - Understands the biotic and abiotic components of our environment and their interdependencies.
• Balance between components of the environment - Understand how producers, consumers and decomposers are essential part of our environment in order to have a sustainable life on earth.
• Environmental pollution - understand how human intervention change the balance between biotic and abiotic components and became the cause of water, air, soil and noise pollutions.

September

Our Body

• Cells and tissues - Understand cells, tissues and organ system briefly.
• Skeletal system - understand the functions in general. understand the structure and functions of major parts of the skeletal system such as skull, backbone, rib cage, bones in arms and legs etc.
• Joints are of different types - Understand the functions of hinge joint, ball and socket joint, pivot joint and gliding joint.

*Muscular system - Identify the different muscles in our body such as voluntary, involuntary and cardiac muscles and their functions.

• Circulatory system - Understand different components of circulatory system such as heart, artery, vein and capillaries.
• Heart - Understand how heart functions as a pump and structure of heart.
• Blood circulation - Understand the importance of blood circulation.

Rocks and minerals

• Rocks are formed in different ways - Understand different types of rocks and their formation
• Rocks contain minerals and metals - Identify the different minerals in different rocks
• Some rocks like gem stones are precious - Identifying gemstones are minerals and their uses.

October

Keeping warm

• Heat is a energy you can feel - Identifying different ways of generating heat.
• Heat can causes things to change - Identifying the changes (physical or chemical) caused by heat such as fermentation, germination etc
• Flow of heat energy - Understand heat conduction through solids such as metals.
• Heat production - understand and identify different methods to produce heat such as solar energy, chemicals, electricity etc.
• Causes of fire and first aid - understand and identify different causes of fire, different methods to put out fire and safety rules.

Nervous system

• Our senses and brain functions together - understand the role of brain interpreting the sensations received by the sense organs.
• Parts of the nervous system - understand different parts of the nervous system.
• Brain receive messages through nerves - understand different types of nerve cells and their function.
• Sense organs - Understand the structure and functions of sense organs in brief.

November

The Moon

• Moon does not produce light - Understand moon can reflect sunlight.
• Phases of the moon - understand and identify different phases of the moon and th c
• Shadows and eclipses - Understand solar eclipse and lunar eclipse.
• Artificial satellites - Understand what a satellite is, difference between natural and artificial satellite and uses of artificial satellite.

Electricity and Magnetism

• Energy can change from one form to another - Understand the conversion of electrical energy into other forms of energy.
• Conductors and insulators - Understand the difference between conductors and insulators.
• Magnetism and its uses - Understand magnetic and non- magnetic substances, making a temporary magnet by rubbing a pin against a permanent magnet and uses of magnets.

December

Food and Health

• Food is our main source of energy - Revise how food is our source of energy.
• Food contains various nutrients - Understand different nutrients and their importance in our body.
• Some diseases are caused by lack of nutrients in our food - Identify the diseases and prevention.
• Preserving food - Understand the different techniques to preserve food.

January

• Topic completion, incase if we are lagging
• Projects on different selected topics by students

February

• Field trips
• Projects on different selected topics by students
• making working models related to the topics that have transacted already

March

• making working models related to the topics that have transacted already