ScienceAt

Townhill

Science• Part of Curriculum for Excellence

• A “Stand-alone” subject

• A “Stand-alone” subject, but with “cross cutting” links

• Providing relevant content, challenging experiences and no more duplication

New Science Titles

• Planet Earth• Biological Systems• Forces, electricity and waves• Materials• Topical Science

Science

• Biodiversity & Interdependence

characteristics, survival, extinction, eco-systems, conservation, wildlife

• Energy sources & Sustainability

Saving energy, reducing waste energy, renewable energy,

• Processes of the PlanetWater cycle and water changes

• Space• Size, scale time and motion of solar

system

Planet Earth

Science

• Body systems and cells

Keeping the human body healthySenses and body’s response to

outside conditionsMicro-organisms and the breakdown

of some materials

• InheritanceLifecycles of plants and animals

Stages of developmentCharacteristics of offspring

Inherited/non-inherited characteristics

Biological Systems

• ForcesFriction, air resistance, movement and

motionMagnets, electrostatic forces, gravity

Floating and sinking – buoyancy

• ElectricityDrawing/planning circuits using symbolsMaking variety of circuits and explaining

transfer of energy

Vibrations & WavesCommunication by animals

Sound travel through air, water and other media

Explore shadows and mixing coloured lights

Forces, Electricity & Waves

Science

Science

• Properties & Uses of Subjects

Changing substances, mixtures, conditions, heating, dissolving

etc.

• Earth’s MaterialsComparing characteristics, comparing soils, rocks, earth’s

surface.

• Chemical ChangeWater samples, pollution &

conservation, chemical reactions and changes to different

materials

Materials

Topical Science

• What is happening today in science?

• In the papers?• On the television?• On the internet?

How can parents help?

• Science around the house…….

More help

• Science all around us……

Still more science………

• Books……. reference, non fiction.

• Activity sets (not just chemistry sets!)

And finally……..

• Out and about

Science in the streetScience in the parkScience in the sweetshopScience in the zooScience in the busScience in the trainScience wherever you are…….