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Science and Technology Overview

The Campus des Nations science curriculum leads students to an appreciation and awareness of the world as viewed through the eyes of a scientist. It provides an engaging and active experience of the scientific process.
Our science curriculum promotes curiosity and inquiry through the exploration of our surroundings and develops in children a sense of responsibility towards the environment through balanced study.
It involves the acquisition of scientific knowledge, skills and processes and develops an awareness in each student of the inter-connection of science and technology.

The science curriculum is taught through the Programme of Inquiry, and is arranged into four main strands:

Living Things	Earth and Space	Materials and Matter	Forces and Energy
is the study of humans and other animals, plants and the environment and the interactions between them.	is the study of the planet Earth and its relationship to the universe.	is the study of the origins, properties and uses of natural and man-made solids, liquids and gases.	is the study of energy, its origins and transfer and its effects.

Scientific Skills and Processes

Students will develop a systematic approach to scientific inquiry. They will formulate questions, observe, plan, collect, organize and interpret data and present research findings.
	Students will develop an understanding of science in everyday life and apply previously acquired knowledge in practical or new ways.
Students will be able to work safely and will learn to use information technology to collect, store, retrieve and present scientific information.

These Units of Inquiry focus on Science

	Theme	Unit name	Strand	Related Concepts
Pre Reception	Sharing the planet	Caring for living things	Living things	Feeding Food chain Differences and similarities Growth
	How the world works	The changing seasons	Living things Earth and space	Adaptation Differences and similarities Growth Seasons Time Transformation
Reception	Sharing the planet	Our garden paradise	Materials and matter Living things – animals and plants	Adaptation Differences and similarities Growth and location.
	How the world works	Where does our food come from?	Materials and matter Living things – animals and plants	Growth Location Animals and plants Properties
Year 1	How the world works	A roof over my head	Materials and matter	Adaptation Differences and similarities
	Sharing the Planet	Life Cycles	Living things – Animals & Plants	Metamorphosis, growth
Year 2	How the world works	Materials	Materials and matter - General	State
	Sharing the Planet	Our world of plants	Living things - Plants	Differences and similarities Growth Photosynthesis and respiration
Year 3	Who we are	Healthy Living	Living things - ourselves	Feeding Growth Systems Variations
	How the world works	Simple Machines	Forces and energy – movement & gravity	Evolution Movement Adaptation
	Sharing the planet	Water	Materials and matter Earth and space – water & atmosphere	Freezing and melting Condensation/evaporation Properties Transformations
Year 4	How the world works	Kitchen Chemistry	Materials and matter	Differences and similarities Changes Mixtures, solutions, reactions
	Sharing the planet	Animal Kingdom	Living things - Animals	Adaptation Behaviour Habitat Extinction
Year 5	Who we are	Human Body	Living things - Ourselves	Growth Systems Movement
	How the world works	Forces and motion	Forces and energy – Movement, Gravity, Magnetism	Attraction and repulsion Movement Speed Time
	Sharing the planet	Ecosystems	Living things - Animals, Plants, Ourselves	Adaptation Food chain Condensation & evaporation
Year 6	Who we are	Growth and Change	Living Things - ourselves	Behaviour Similarities and Differences Growth Reproduction Growth
	How the world works	Energy	Forces and energy	Transformation Variations Differences and Similarities

5concepts

Demonstrations of deeper learning in responsible behaviour through positive action and service; a manifestation in practice of the other essential elements

Powerful ideas which have relevance within and across the disciplines and which students must explore and re-explore in order to develop understanding

Significant, relevant, subject matter which students are expected to explore and know about

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Those things which the students need to be able to do to succeed in a changing, challenging world

Dispositions which are expressions of fundamental values, beliefs and feelings about learning, the environment and people

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updated 13 fÈvrier, 2007