Grades 3-5 Science — review site
What this is. The course as a student meets it, one topic at a time: the intro video, then each lesson (watch the video or read the article, then the quiz), the mixed practice, the summary video, the PP100 test bank. Where David has made a video it plays above its script; otherwise you read the script.
How to leave notes. Under every part — the script, the article, each question, each figure — there is a "Reviewer note" box. Type next to the thing you mean. Notes save in your browser as you go. When you finish a topic, open the page's Notes tab: it gathers everything you wrote into one file. Send that file to James or David.
The atom map (every idea the courses teach, by grade and by strand, with your comments applied): science-map.pages.dev.
Where things are. Grade 3: 42 topics in four strands — 1 final, 2 authored and in review, 0 blueprinted, 39 to come.
Stages: blueprint (the plan James approved) → authored, in review (lessons and questions written, being checked) → final (blind-read, handed to David for video) → videos done. "James" = his review of the topic; "Olivia" = your feedback file received.
Grade 3
Grade 3: 42 topics in four strands — 1 final, 2 authored and in review, 0 blueprinted, 39 to come.
| # | Topic | Lessons | Stage | James | Videos | Olivia | For James |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physics — 15 topics, 3 authored | |||||||
| 1 | Where is it? Did it move? | 8 | final · with David | reviewed 09/28 | 0 of 11 | — | types · blueprint · how it looks on TimeBack |
| 2 | Fast and slow | 7 | authored, in review | reviewed 09/28 | — | — | types · blueprint · how it looks on TimeBack |
| 3 | Earth pulls things down | 3 | authored, in review | reviewed 09/28 | — | — | types · blueprint · how it looks on TimeBack |
| 4 | Magnets | 3 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | What a force is | 4 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Forces that touch, and forces that don't | 3 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Pushes and pulls change things | 5 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Strong or weak: drawing a force | 3 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Balanced forces | 5 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Unbalanced forces | 3 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Energy: what has it, how it travels | 6 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | Sound | 3 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | Light: sources, straight lines, shadows | 4 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Light bounces, bends or soaks in | 4 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Light and heat | 3 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| Matter — 6 topics, 0 authored | |||||||
| 16 | Describe it, sort it | 5 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Measuring tools | 5 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Which has more? | 3 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Sinks, floats, sticks to a magnet: choosing materials | 4 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | Solids, liquids and gases | 5 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 21 | Heating and cooling | 7 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| Earth & Space — 10 topics, 0 authored | |||||||
| 22 | Measuring the weather | 6 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 23 | Weather over a season, and far away | 5 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 24 | Volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides | 6 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | Dangerous weather | 3 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 26 | Soil | 4 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 27 | Fossils | 5 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 28 | Using and conserving natural resources | 4 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 29 | The Sun | 3 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 30 | The stars | 4 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 31 | The solar system | 5 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| Life — 11 topics, 0 authored | |||||||
| 32 | Alive or not | 5 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 33 | What living things need | 4 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 34 | Backbone or no backbone | 3 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 35 | The five vertebrate groups | 6 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 36 | Eggs, body parts and senses | 3 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 37 | How plants make new plants | 4 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 38 | Plant parts and their jobs | 3 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 39 | Plants respond | 3 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 40 | Life cycles and family likeness | 5 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 41 | Food chains | 3 | to come | — | — | — | — |
| 42 | Living together and coping with change | 4 | to come | — | — | — | — |
Grade 4
Not yet planned as a course. Its atoms are on the atom map (Grade 4).
Grade 5
Not yet planned as a course. Its atoms are on the atom map (Grade 5).
Built 28 Sep 2026 from the course repo. Videos and statuses update as David and James commit.