What you’ll learn
Space
Content Covered
- Understand the difference between planets and stars
- Identify the planets in solar system
- Understand that gravitational force is keeping all the planets in a fixed orbit
Skills to develop in this topic
- Observation skills with observing the space model and using their new knowledge to produce an explanation.
Forces
Content Covered
- Learn the types of forces
- Be able to draw the directions of forces
- Evaluate that what forces can do
Skills to develop in this topic
- Using equipment in the labs evaluating Different forces by using force circus
- Development of graph skills – forces and extension Comparison of different quantities (variables and scientific methods)
Sound
Content Covered
- Describe the different types of waves and their features
- Explain why the speed of sound is different in different materials
- State the range of human hearing and describe how it differs from animals
Skills to develop in this topic
- Skills of carrying out experiment to calculate the speed of sound and observing the energy transfer the surroundings
- Graph skills with distinguish the different frequencies of sound. · Introduction of the ultrasound waves and its uses
Light
Content Covered
- State that what type of wave is Light
- Be able to describe the properties of light wave
- Be able to identify the uses of light wave
- Be able to evaluate the speed of light
Skills to develop in this topic
- The importance of accuracy in experiments (checking the speed of light).
- The use of light boxes to determine the law of reflection.
- An insight into multi-stage practical (investigating the different properties and behaviour of light waves)
Energy
Content Covered
- Define Energy and its forms
- Identify Different energy stores
- Understand the concept of the law of conservation of energy
- Interpret energy need
- Explain the ways in which thermal energy is transferred
Skills to develop in this topic
- Identifying the different forms of energy and practical work to calculate the energy transfer during process
- Calculate the energy values.
Motion and pressure
Content Covered
- Understand motion using the concept of balanced and unbalanced forces
- Identify that pressure is due to forces applied per unit area
- Understand the turning effect of forces using the concept of forces in pair
Skills to develop in this topic
- Calculation skills that forces are measured in newtons, measurements of stretch or compression as force is changed
- Force-extension linear relation; Hooke’s Law as a special case
- Calculating the work done and energy changes on deformation
Electricity
Content Covered
- Describe charges and understand the concept of transfer of electrons
- Identify the circuit symbols
- Learn how to build a simple circuits
- Understand the path and flow of electrons
- Understand the concept of energy carried by the electrons
- Identify the different circuits and measure the current and voltage using ammeter and voltmeter
Skills to develop in this topic
- Building the circuits
- Be able to connect the ammeter and voltmeter in the circuits
- Learning the recording of current and voltage
- Be able to investigate the magnetic field of a magnet