Primary Stage 4 Science – Cambridge Curriculum – Course Outline – Weeks 1–10
Week
Theme
Lesson number and name
Learner’s
Book pages
Unit 1 – Living Things
Week 1
Unit 1
Living Things
Week 2
Unit 1
Living Things
Week 3
Unit 1
Living Things
1.1 Bones and skeletons
1.2 Why we need a skeleton
1.3 Skeletons and movement
1. Bones and skeletons
- Getting started
- What is a skeleton?
- The human skeleton
2. Why we need a skeleton
- Getting started
- Skeletons protect
- Skeletons give shape
- Skeletons allow us to move
- Questions
- Skeletons help us grow
3. Skeletons and movement
- Getting started
- Muscles make us move
- How muscles work
- Movement keeps us healthy
- Questions
2–5
5–8
9–14
Week 4
Unit 1
Living Things
Week 5
Unit 1
Living Things
Week 6
Unit 1
Living Things
1.4 Different kinds of skeletons
1.5. Medicines and infectious
diseases
Check your progress
4. Different kinds of skeletons
- Getting started
- Animals with bones
- Animals without bones
- Questions
- Identification keys
5. Medicines and infectious diseases
- Getting started
- Medicines
- Taking medicines safely
- How we take medicines
- Questions
- Infectious diseases
- Questions
6. Unit 1 – Living things
- End of Unit 1 topic check your
progress
15–21
22–28
29–30
Assignment 1: Living things
Unit 2 – Energy
Week 7
Unit 2
Energy
2.1 Energy around us
7. Energy around us
- Getting started
- Energy is all around us
- Questions
- What is energy?
31–34
Week 8
Unit 2
Energy
Week 9
Unit 2
Energy
Week 10 - Unit 2
Energy
2.2 Energy transfers
2.3 Energy changes
2.4 Energy and living things
Check your progress
8. Energy transfers
- Getting started
- Energy can move
9. Energy changes
- Getting started
- Energy can change form
- Where does the energy go?
- Questions
10. Energy and living things
- Getting started
- Living things need energy
- Animals need plants for energy
- Questions
- Food chains
- Questions
11. Unit 2 – Energy
- End of Unit 2 topic check your
progress
Assignment 2: Energy
Mid Test 1 to be downloaded from the dashboard
35–38
39–42
43–48
NOTE ON ASSIGNMENTS AND TESTS
● Students are reminded that bulk submissions of Assignments and Mid Tests are not permitted. These should be completed
and uploaded for marking one at a time.
● Bulk submissions of Assignments and Mid Tests will be deleted.
● It is expected that the student will review the corrections and feedback provided by the teacher on all marked Assignments or
Mid Tests before completing the next Assignment or Mid Test.
● Only the final Progression Test 1 and Progression Test 2 may be submitted for marking together at the end of the course, once
all other Assignments and Mid Tests have been completed and marked.