Year 4 Science
The Year 4 Science curriculum provides a wide range of topics in physical sciences, life sciences and earth sciences that help students explore, apply, and learn through applications in daily life activities.
What you'll learn
- 1
Technology and the design process
- 2
Plants
- 3
Living things
- 4
Ecosystems
- 5
Body and illness
- 6
Earth and weather
- 7
Earth and universe
- 8
Energy and its forms
- 9
Forces and motion
- 10
Electrical energy
Skills you'll learn
"Real-life applications and designing skills - Cork opener: screw, Bicycle: lever, pulley, wheel and axle, Lawn mover: wedges, Scissors:lever, Sea-saw: lever"
Observation skills - Parts of a plant, categorising stems, plant reproduction, seeds we eat, life cycle of a plant
Knowledge gaining - Stages in the life cycle of animals, classifying skills based on the observations
Environmental learning - Knowing ecosystem, energy flow, interactions based on energy, natural and man-made changes in the ecosystem
Awareness skills - Maintaining health, diseases, knowing pathogens and spread of diseases, immune system, knowledge about resistance, vaccination
Environment learning - Water cycle, types of landforms, natural phenomena like volcanic eruptions, landslides, earthquakes, weathering and its agents
Scientific learning - Rotation and revolution of Earth, seasons, shadows and their formation, phases of the Moon, astronomical instruments
Application skills - Applications of different types of energy in household, power generation, heat and light generation
Experimental skills - Motion and its types, speed and its types, balanced and unbalanced forces, contact and non-contact forces, properties of magnetism, gravity and weight
Application skills - Electrical energy used to produce heat in toaster, hair dryer, light in digital clock, sound in hearing aids, and motion in electric car
