Grade 3-5 Science — review for Olivia

Grade 3

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

Grade 3: 42 topics — 31 ready for you, 11 being checked, 0 to come.

Physics — 15 topics, 15 ready

Matter — 6 topics, 6 ready

Earth & Space — 10 topics, 7 ready

Life — 11 topics, 3 ready

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: 38 topics — 0 ready for you, 0 being checked, 38 to come.

Physics — 10 topics, 0 ready

Nothing to read yet: 1 Why sliding things stop, 2 How to run a fair test, 3 How magnets push and pull, 4 How energy moves from one thing to another, 5 What happens when things bump into each other, 6 How heat moves from hot to cold, 7 What reaches your ears and your eyes, 8 How waves carry energy and messages, 9 How a circuit makes a bulb light, 10 What a circuit gives out.

Design and build — 2 topics, 0 ready

Nothing to read yet: 11 What a design must do, and what it must stay inside, 12 How to build and test an energy changer.

Matter — 4 topics, 0 ready

Nothing to read yet: 13 How to tell materials apart, 14 What mixtures and solutions are, 15 Why the mass stays the same, 16 When a change makes a new material.

Earth & Space — 16 topics, 0 ready

Nothing to read yet: 17 What a rock is made of, 18 How igneous and sedimentary rock form, 19 The three rock families, 20 How rock breaks, moves and settles, 21 How rock layers tell the time, 22 What happens in an earthquake, 23 The water cycle, 24 Where Earth's water is, 25 Weather and climate, 26 How Earth's parts act on one another, 27 Energy from wind, water, sunlight and plants, 28 Fuels from under the ground, 29 Which energy sources nature can replace, 30 The Sun's path and the seasons, 31 The turning Earth and the stars, 32 The Moon's changing shape.

Life — 6 topics, 0 ready

Nothing to read yet: 33 Parts and their jobs, inside animals and plants, 34 How plants make their own food, 35 Producers, consumers and decomposers, 36 Traits from parents, and traits from life, 37 Life cycles of plants and animals, 38 What happens when a 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.