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Every child has a natural curiosity about the way the world works: science lessons show how they can get answers to questions such as how to keep ourselves warm, or why the sun seems to move across the sky.
Children look at and explore:
- life processes and living things, including facts about their own bodies (such as the importance of a varied diet and exercise for good health), the purpose of roots and flowers in plants, how animals and plants are classified, and the habitats in which animals and plants need to live;
- materials and their properties, including classification, how they can be used, how they change (for example, through burning, freezing, boiling), and how some materials can be mixed and separated;
- physical processes, including electrical circuits, magnets, the forces of gravity and friction and how light and sound travel. They also learn some basic facts about the Sun, Earth and Moon. Through work in these three areas children are taught about scientific enquiry. The teacher or children ask questions, and then the children work together to try to answer the questions, by finding things out and recording data in a variety of ways, including charts, diagrams and charts. They look for patterns in the data to help draw conclusion from their results. They think about their tests and comparisons and whether or not these are a fair way to help answer the questions. They use reference books and computer sources to find out more about scientific ideas. |
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