Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, Volume 13, Issue 2, Article13 (Dec., 2012)
Ai Noi LEE
Development of a parent’s guide for the Singapore primary science curriculum: Empowering parents as facilitators of their children’s science learning outside the formal classrooms

Previous Contents


Appendix

An Outline of the Themes, Chapters, and Activities in the I-Science Parent’s Guide (Lower Primary 3 & 4 and Upper Primary 5 & 6)

I-Science Parent’s Guide Booklet 1 (Lower Primary 3 & 4)

Themes

Chapters

Activities

Diversity

Chapter 1: Living and Non-living things

Activity 1: Are they living or non-living things?

 

 

Activity 2: Are the things at home living or non-living?

 

 

Activity 3: How do we know whether it is living or non-living?

 

 

Activity 4: What can living things do?

 

Chapter 2: Diversity of Living Things

Activity 1: Which animal groups do they belong to?

 

 

Activity 2: What does my pet need?

 

 

Activity 3: Are vegetables plants?

 

 

Activity 4: Are seeds living or non-living things?

 

 

Activity 5: What are fruits?

 

Chapter 3: Diversity of Materials

Activity 1: Which materials is it made of?

 

 

Activity 2: Is it transparent, translucent or opaque?

 

 

Activity 3: Which material absorbs water the fastest?

 

 

Activity 4: Does it float or sink?

 

 

Activity 5: Will it get scratched easily?

Cycles

Chapter 1: The Cycle of Life

Activity 1: What are seeds?

 

 

Activity 2: Making a butterfly life cycle mobile

 

 

Activity 3: What is your life story?

 

 

Activity 4: What are their life cycles?

 

 

Activity 5: How many stages are there in their life cycle?

 

Chapter 2: Matter

Activity 1: How do we measure mass and volume?

 

 

Activity 2: What is a matter?

 

 

Activity 3: How do we classify matter?

 

 

Activity 4: Can you smell that?

Systems

Chapter 1: Plant System

Activity 1: What do the parts in a part do?

 

 

Activity 2: Making a leaf press

 

 

Activity 3: How do we classify leaves?

 

 

Activity 4: How does water travel in a plant?

 

Chapter 2: Human System

Activity 1: What happens to your food?

 

 

Activity 2: Making a lung model

 

 

Activity 3: Does your pulse rate change?

 

 

Activity 4: How much do you know about your skeleton?

Interactions

Chapter 1: Magnets

Activity 1: Guess which objects are magnetic?

 

 

Activity 2: Making my own magnet by the stroking method

 

 

Activity 3: Is the strength of a magnet uniform throughout?

 

 

Activity 4: Making a magnetic toy

Energy

Chapter 1: Light

Activity 1: Mirror and reflection

 

 

Activity 2: Can these objects form shadows?

 

 

Activity 3: Can shadows change?

 

 

Activity 4: Making a pinhole camera

 

Chapter 2: Heat and Temperature

Activity 1: Hot or cold?

 

 

Activity 2: What are heat conductors and insulators?

 

 

Activity 3: Does air expand and contract?

 

 

Activity 4: What is my body temperature?

 

 

Activity 5: What is the temperature today?

 

 

Activity 6: Which coloured material is warmer – black or white?

I-Science Parent’s Guide Booklet 2 (Lower Primary 5 & 6)

Themes

Chapters

Activities

Cycles

Chapter 1: Water

Activity 1: How does water change to solid and back to liquid again?

 

 

Activity 2: How does water change to a gas and back to a liquid again?

 

 

Activity 3: How is rain formed?

 

 

Activity 4: Why do we need reservoirs?

 

 

Activity 5: How can we reduce water pollution?

 

Chapter 2: Reproduction in Plants

Activity 1: How is a flower pollinated?

 

 

Activity 2: Why do seeds need to be dispersed?

 

 

Activity 3: Why do angsana fruits have wing-like structures?

 

 

Activity 4: What helps a seed to germinate?

 

Chapter 3: Sexual Reproduction in Humans

Activity 1: Do I look more like my dad or my mum?

 

 

Activity 2: How does the developing baby grow?

Systems

Chapter 1: Systems in Living Things

Activity 1: Does breathing rate depend on a person’s age?

 

 

Activity 2: Can a system work if one part of it is missing?

 

 

Activity 3: Why do we need our body systems?

 

Chapter 2: Cells

Activity 1: What is in a cell?

 

 

Activity 2: Making a jelly cell

 

Chapter 3: Electrical System

Activity 1: What makes up a simple circuit?

 

 

Activity 2: Which circuit is better?

 

 

Activity 3: Is this a conductor or an insulator of electricity?

 

 

Activity 4: Which electrical appliance uses more energy?

Interactions

Chapter 1: Forces

Activity 1: Am I pushing or pulling?

 

 

Activity 2: Making magnetic puppets for a puppet show

 

 

Activity 3: Is force at work here?

 

 

Activity 4: Friction – helpful or not helpful?

 

Chapter 2: Environment

Activity 1: What are the factors that affect the organisms in a garden community?

 

 

Activity 2: What communities can I find?

 

 

Activity 3: Making a garden in a bottle

 

Chapter 3: Web of Life

Activity 1: Exploring an open field community

 

 

Activity 2: How can we form food webs from food chains?

 

Chapter 4: Adaptations

Activity 1: How do animals adapt themselves to their environments?

 

 

Activity 2: What adaptations do marine organisms have?

 

 

Activity 3: What adaptations does a polar bear have?

 

Chapter 5: Man’s Impact on the Environment

Activity 1: How does water pollution affect aquatic organisms?

 

 

Activity 2: How do we use recycled materials creatively?

 

 

Activity 3: How is yeast used in biotechnology?

Energy

Chapter 1: Energy and Photosynthesis

Activity 1: Where does our food come from?

 

 

Activity 2: How do plants make food?

 

 

Activity 3: Is starch present?

 

Chapter 2: Energy Forms and Uses

Activity 1: What is energy?

 

 

Activity 2: How do my toys convert energy?

 

 

Activity 3: Making a jumping frog

 

 

Activity 4: How do I make a toy which can convert energy?

 


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