Dream Land International School Summer Science Program 2024

Science (Year-1 to 8)

Year-1 Science

Week-1 & 2 Naming and grouping animals

3. Naming trees
1. Naming and grouping familiar animals
4. Deciduous and evergreen trees
2. Naming mammals
5. Structure of a flowering plant
3. Naming birds and reptiles
6. Common flowering plants
4. Naming fish and amphibians
7. Wildflowers
5. Animal structure
Week-6 Seasonal changes: spring and summer
6. What animals eat
1. Signs of spring
Week-3 Seasonal changes: autumn and winter
2. Weather in spring
1. Signs of autumn
3. Signs of summer
2. Weather in autumn
4. Weather in summer
3. Signs of winter
5. Day length in summer
4. Weather in winter

5. Day length in winter Week-7 & 8 Everyday materials

Week-4 Human body parts 1. Everyday objects and materials

1. Humans are animals 2. Materials for recycling

2. Body parts on the outside 3. The 5 Rs and Recycling (non-statutory -

3. Body parts on the inside Climate Change & Sustainability)

4. Body parts for our senses 4. Material properties

5. Sight, smell and sound 5. Waterproof materials: plan and do

6. Touch and taste 6. Waterproof materials: review

7. Transparent and opaque materials

Week-5 Identifying plants and their basic parts
8. Transparent and opaque materials in our
1. Plants around our school or home
lives
2. Structure of a tree
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Year-2 Science

Week-1 & 2 Uses of everyday materials Week-5 Introduction to food chains

1. Materials and their uses 1. How animals get food

2. Suitable and unsuitable materials 2. Introduction to food chains

3. Materials that help our planet 3. Roles within food chains

4. Absorbent materials 4. Comparing food chains

5. Stretchy materials
Week-6 Living things and where they live
6. Changing shape: plan and do
1. Living or non-living

Week-3 Growing plants 2. Living things and movement

1. Plants from seeds 3. Living, dead and never alive

2. Plants from bulbs 4. Animal habitats

3. What plants need to grow and stay healthy 5. Plant habitats

4. Plant health and growth 6. Plants and animals in micro-habitats

5. Plants without water 7. Protecting micro-habitats

6. Plants without warmth

Week-7 & 8 Healthy me
7. Plants without light
1. Washing hands
8. Grow your own food (non-statutory -
2. Brushing teeth
Climate Change & Sustainability)
3. The importance of exercise

Week-4 New life 4. Different types of food

1. Young animals 5. Different amounts of food

2. Growing up 6. Staying healthy

3. Animal life cycles 7. Food scientists

4. Changes in animal life cycles

5. The basic needs of animals

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Year-3 Science

Week-1 & 2 Rocks and Soils

Week-5 Healthy Eating
1. Introduction to rocks
1. Making or finding food
2. The appearance of rocks
2. Types of food
3. Physical properties of rocks: hardness
3. Amounts of food
4. Physical properties of rocks: permeability
4. Nutrition from food
5. Everyday uses of rocks
5. Fats in food
6. How fossils are formed
6. Nutrient-rich meal
7. What soil is made from
7. Different diets for different people
8. Different types of soil
8. Local food

Week-3 Introduction to the human skeleton Week-6 What plants do and what they need
and muscles
1. What plants need
1. The human skeleton: support
2. Nutrients and fertilisers for plants
2. The human skeleton: protection
3. Why plants have leaves and roots
3. Animal skeletons
4. How water is transported in plants
4. Muscles for movement
5. Why some plants have flowers
5. Animals without bones
6. The parts of a flower
6. Improving muscle strength
7. Life cycle of a flowering plant

Week-4 Simple forces including magnets 8. Comparing what plants need in different

1. Different surfaces in real life habitats

2. Contact forces Week-7 & 8 Introduction to light and shadows

3. Magnetic force at a distance 1. Light and seeing
4. Different magnets and their parts 2. Light sources
5. Strongest magnet 3. Protecting our eyes from the Sun
6. Magnetic and non-magnetic materials 4. Opaque, transparent and translucent
7. Putting magnets together: attract or repel 5. Making shadows
8. Using magnets to solve problems (non- 6. Shadow size
statutory: Scientists and Engineers) 7. Reflected light
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8. Light pollution

Year-4 Science

Week-1 & 2 Introduction to the human digestive system

1. Types of teeth

2. The functions of teeth

3. Different teeth for different food

4. Looking after our teeth

5. Human digestive system: mouth to the stomach

6. Human digestive system: stomach to the toilet

7. Human digestive system: mouth to toilet

8. Healthy food for a healthy gut

Week- 3 Introduction to states of matter and changing states

1. Properties of solids, liquids and gases

2. Comparing and grouping solids, liquids and gases

3. Changing state: solid to liquid – liquid to solid

4. Everyday examples of melting, solidifying and freezing

5. Thermometers and data loggers

6. Melting points

7. Changing state: liquid to gas – gas to liquid

8. Evaporation and condensation in the water cycle

9. Temperature and evaporation

Week-4 Simple electrical circuits

1. Electrical appliances

2. Electrical appliances of the future

3. Using electrical appliances

4. Components in a simple circuit

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5. Making and testing simple circuits

6. Troubleshooting problems with circuits

7. Switches

8. Electrical conductors and insulators

9. Conductors and insulators around the home

Week-5 Introduction to sound

1. Sounds are made by vibrations

2. How vibrations travel

3. How sound travels

4. Louder and quieter sounds

5. Measuring the volume of sounds

6. How the strength of vibrations affects the volume of sound

7. Noise pollution

8. Higher and lower sounds

9. Musical instruments and pitch

Week- 6 & 7 Living things and the environment

1. Grouping living things

2. Grouping animals and plants

3. Classification keys to identify animals and plants

4. Environmental change

5. Extreme weather: flooding, heatwaves and wild fires

6. Negative impacts of environmental change

7. Animals in danger

8. Protecting our animals and plants in danger

9. Positive impacts of environmental change

Week-8 More about food chains

1. Simple food chains

2. Producers in a food chain

3. Consumers in a food chain

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4. Predators and prey in a food chain

5. Creating food chains

6. Comparing different food chains

7. Interpreting food chains

8. Dangers to food chains

9. Protecting food chains

Year-5 Science

Week- 1 & 2 Properties, changes and separating materials

1. Properties of materials

2. Knowledge of materials

3. Uses of everyday materials

4. Everyday uses of thermal insulators

5. Soluble and insoluble

6. Salt from seawater

7. Reversible changes of state

8. Burning plants as fuel

9. Greenhouse gases

10. Rusting: an irreversible change

Week-3 Forces including simple machines

1. Introduction to gravity

2. Pushes and pulls

3. Friction

4. Air resistance

5. Water resistance

6. How levers, pulleys and gears can help us

7. Simple machines

8. Discovery and use of simple machines

Week-4 Earth, Sun and Moon

1. The shape of Earth

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2. The shape of objects in space

3. Observing the Moon

4. The relative sizes of the Earth, Sun and Moon

5. More about the Sun

6. Why we have day and night

7. Why the Sun appears to move across the sky

8. The planets in our solar system

9. The movement of the planets around the Sun

10. The movement of the Moon

Week-5 Reproduction and life cycles: plants

1. Plants from cuttings

2. Plants from tops

3. Parts of a flowering plant and what they do

4. Pollinators

5. Dangers to pollinators

6. Plant life cycles

7. Plant reproduction

Week-6 Reproduction and life cycles: animals

1. Animal groups

2. Insects

3. Bird life cycles

4. Amphibian life cycles

5. Insect life cycles

6. Endangered animals and life cycles

Week-7 & 8 Human development

1. Changes in humans before and after birth

2. Changes in childhood

3. Changes during puberty

4. Changes in adulthood
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5. Changes in old age

6. Life expectancy

7. The impact of population growth

Year-6 Science

Week-1 & 2 The human circulatory system

1. Function of the heart, blood

2. Function of blood

3. Function of blood vessels

4. How nutrients and water are transported within humans

5. Circulatory system

6. The use of animal hearts in humans

Week-3 Keeping healthy

1. Healthy diet
2. Healthy and sustainable proteins

3. Healthy heart rate

4. Heart recovery rates after exercise

5. Healthy hearts

6. Improving heart health

7. Legal and illegal drugs

8. The impact of smoking and alcohol

9. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle

Week-4 Why we group and classify living things

1. Comparing characteristics of living things

2. How and why we group animals and plants

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3. Grouping micro-organisms

4. Micro-organisms on food

5. The 5 Rs and rotting

6. Microorganisms that help us

7. Why we group and classify things

Week-5 Evolution and inheritance

1. Where fossils are found

2. How living things have changed over time

3. Human skulls: using evidence from the past

4. Family trees

5. Inherited characteristics

6. Animal adaptations

7. Plant adaptations

8. Animal and plant evolution: evidence

Week-6 & 7 Light and how it travels

1. Light travels in straight lines

2. Light sources

3. Light enters our eyes

4. Reflected light

5. How shadows form

6. Shadow shapes

7. Using light and reflection

Week-7 Materials

1. Comparing rock salt with table salt

2. Using salt to melt ice

3. Salt from rock salt

Week-8 Climate change and sustainability

1. Reducing air pollution

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2. What carbon is

3. Measuring our carbon footprint

4. The sun as an energy resource

5. The wind as an energy resource

6. Water as an energy resource

Year-7 Science

Week-1 & 2 Cells

1. Cell structures

2. Specialised animal cells

3. Specialised plant cells

4. Unicellular organisms

5. Organisation

6. Microscopes

Week- 3 & 4 Atoms and Periodic table

1. Elements

2. Compounds

3. Chemical reactions

4. Development of the periodic table

5. Metals and non-metals

Week- 5 & 6 Energy

1. Energy stores and transfers

2. Conduction
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3. Radiation

4. Insulation

5. Power and energy

6. Energy in the home

Week- 7 & 8 Forces

1. What forces do

2. The different kinds of force

3. Measuring forces

4. Balanced and unbalanced forces

5. Friction

6. Reducing friction: practical

Year-8 Science

Week-1 & 2 Cells

1. The common processes of all living organisms
2. Animal cells structures and their functions
3. Plant cell structures and their functions
4. Difference between Multicellular and Unicellular organisms
5. Specialised cells in the animals and plants

Week-3 & 4 Ecosystems

1. Food chains
2. Predator-prey relationship
3. Adaptations of predators and pray
4. Food web
5. Ecosystems and habitats
6. Pollination and human food security
7. Using chemicals in farming
8. Bioaccumulation
9. The importance of biodiversity

Week-5 & 6 Moving by Force

1. Calculating speed
2. Measuring speed accurately
3. Reading distance- time graphs
4. Interpreting distance-time graphs
5. Changing speed
6. Newton’s first law
7. Streamlining
8. Comparing the speed of different parachutes
9. Changing the speed of a parachute

Week-7 Species and classification

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1. Classification and species

2. Classifying organisms using classification key
3. Identification and classification in the field
4. Classification at the cellular level

Week-8 Plant nutrition and photosynthesis

1. Plant nutrition
2. Photosynthesis
3. Adaptation of plants for photosynthesis: absorbing light, gas exchange and stomata