Grade 3-5 Science — review for Olivia

Grade 3

The full plan (strands, topics, decisions for James): Grade 3 architecture.

Grade 3: 42 topics — 2 ready for you, 21 being checked, 19 to come.

Physics — 15 topics, 2 ready

Matter — 6 topics, 0 ready

Earth & Space — 10 topics, 0 ready

Still to come in Earth & Space: 24 Volcanoes, earthquakes, landslides, 25 Dangerous weather, 26 Soil, 27 Fossils, 28 Using and conserving natural resources, 29 The Sun, 30 The stars, 31 The solar system.

Life — 11 topics, 0 ready

Nothing to read yet: 32 Alive or not, 33 What living things need, 34 Backbone or no backbone, 35 The five vertebrate groups, 36 Eggs, body parts and senses, 37 How plants make new plants, 38 Plant parts and their jobs, 39 Plants respond, 40 Life cycles and family likeness, 41 Food chains, 42 Living together and coping with change.

Grade 4 PROVISIONAL PLAN — awaiting James's sign-off

This is the provisional topic plan drafted from the atom map. James has not signed it off yet; topic titles, order and groupings may change. Nothing here is being written until he does.

The full plan (strands, topics, decisions for James): Grade 4 architecture.

Grade 4: 37 topics — 0 ready for you, 0 being checked, 37 to come.

Physics — 11 topics, 0 ready

Nothing to read yet: 1 Why sliding things stop, 2 A fair test, 3 Magnets, properly, 4 Energy moves from giver to receiver, 5 Bumps and crashes, 6 Heat flows from hot to cold, 7 Sound and sight: what reaches your ear and eye, 8 Waves carry a pattern, 9 A circuit is a loop, 10 What a circuit gives out, 11 Design and build an energy changer.

Matter — 4 topics, 0 ready

Nothing to read yet: 12 Same material, same behaviour, 13 Mixtures and solutions, 14 Break it, mix it: the mass holds, 15 New material, or the same one changed?.

Earth & Space — 16 topics, 0 ready

Nothing to read yet: 16 What a rock is made of, 17 Rock from cooling, rock from settling, 18 Rock changed by heat and squeezing; sorting the three families, 19 Weathering, erosion, deposition, 20 Layers tell the time, 21 Earthquakes and seismic waves, 22 The water cycle, 23 Earth's water and the ocean, 24 Weather or climate?, 25 Earth's parts act on one another, 26 Energy from wind, water, sunlight and plants, 27 Fuels dug, pumped and piped from the ground, 28 Renewable or not? Weighing up an energy source, 29 The Sun's path and the seasons, 30 The turning Earth and the stars, 31 The Moon's changing shape.

Life — 6 topics, 0 ready

Nothing to read yet: 32 Parts with jobs: inside animals, and in plants, 33 Plants make their own food, 34 Producers, consumers, decomposers, 35 Inherited or picked up; instinct or learned, 36 From flower to seed to seedling, 37 When the place changes.

Grade 5 PROVISIONAL PLAN — awaiting James's sign-off

This is the provisional topic plan drafted from the atom map. James has not signed it off yet; topic titles, order and groupings may change. Nothing here is being written until he does.

The full plan (strands, topics, decisions for James): Grade 5 architecture.

Grade 5: 34 topics — 0 ready for you, 0 being checked, 34 to come.

Physics — 6 topics, 0 ready

Nothing to read yet: 1 Earth pulls everything toward its centre, 2 Equal or unequal forces?, 3 Investigate forces like a scientist, 4 Rubbing makes a pull without touching, 5 Energy chains: where it came from, where it went, 6 Circuits that do a job.

Matter — 5 topics, 0 ready

Nothing to read yet: 7 Name that material, 8 Mixed, but still themselves: taking mixtures apart, 9 Has a new substance formed?, 10 The total mass always holds, 11 Tiny pieces too small to see.

Earth & Space — 11 topics, 0 ready

Nothing to read yet: 12 Measuring the whole weather picture, 13 Where our weather comes from, 14 Climate zones and what makes them, 15 Earth's four spheres, 16 Salt water, fresh water, 17 Slow makings: stone, fossil fuels and landforms, 18 Protecting a place, 19 Shadows through the day, 20 Why the Sun crosses the sky, 21 Earth, Moon and Sun, and our place among the stars, 22 Sorting the solar system.

Life — 12 topics, 0 ready

Nothing to read yet: 23 What an ecosystem is, 24 Where a plant's body comes from, 25 Matter loops, energy flows through, 26 Food webs and the ripple, 27 Healthy ecosystems, and what people do to them, 28 Parents pass on instructions, 29 Who pulls through, 30 The food organs, 31 Heart and lungs, 32 Brain, senses and skin, 33 Bones and muscles, 34 Kidneys, bladder and the reproductive organs.