Age (6-8)

Topics

•    Explore energy, movement, forces, and friction in everyday life.
•    Discover light, sound, magnets, and simple electricity.
•    Explore materials and their properties through simple activities.
•    Understand changes in materials such as melting, freezing, dissolving, and mixing.
•    Learn about plants, animals, habitats, food chains, and adaptations.
•    Discover our body, microorganisms, health, and hygiene.
•    Explore the Earth, Sun, Moon, planets, and space.
•    Discover rocks, soil, weather, water, and Earth's environment.
•    Develop basic observation, prediction, classification, and scientific thinking.

Detailed Syllabus

1. Energy, Motion & Forces

• Light, heat, sound, and electrical energy in everyday life.
• Pushes and pulls.
• Fast and slow movement.
• Friction in everyday situations.
• Gravity and falling objects.
• How forces can change the movement of objects.
• Simple experiments with movement and forces.

2. Light, Sound, Magnets & Electricity

• Natural and artificial sources of light.
• Shadows and simple reflection.
• How sound is produced.
• Loud and soft sounds.
• Magnetic and non-magnetic objects.
• Magnetic attraction and repulsion.
• Simple electrical devices.
• Basic open and closed circuits using pictures and simple examples.
• Basic electrical safety.

3. Materials & Their Properties

• Hard and soft materials.
• Rough and smooth surfaces.
• Heavy and light objects.
• Waterproof and absorbent materials.
• Soluble and insoluble materials.
• Magnetic and non-magnetic materials.
• Conductors and insulators through simple examples.
• Flexible and rigid materials.
• Choosing suitable materials for different objects.

4. Changes & Mixtures

• Melting and freezing.
• Evaporation and condensation.
• Dissolving.
• Mixing different materials.
• Simple mixtures and solutions.
• Separating mixtures by sieving, filtering, and sorting.
• Reversible and irreversible changes.
• Everyday examples of changes in materials.

5. Plants, Animals & Habitats

• Main parts of a plant and their functions.
• What plants need to grow.
• Basic idea of how plants make food using sunlight.
• Herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.
• Simple food chains.
• Animal habitats.
• How plants and animals are suited to their environments.
• Basic relationships between living things and their habitats.

6. Our Body, Microbes & Healthy Living

• Major parts of the human body.
• Basic functions of the heart, lungs, brain, and digestive system.
• Healthy food and balanced eating.
• Exercise and healthy habits.
• Personal hygiene.
• Helpful and harmful microorganisms.
• Basic understanding of bacteria and fungi.
• How cleanliness helps prevent illness.

7. Earth, Sun, Moon & Space

• The Sun as a star.
• The planets of the Solar System.
• Earth and its Moon.
• Day and night.
• Moon phases.
• Simple understanding of solar and lunar eclipses.
• Stars and constellations.
• Natural and artificial satellites.
• Basic space exploration.

8. Earth & Environment

• Land, water, air, and soil.
• Basic layers of Earth.
• Common rocks and their uses.
• Weather and seasons.
• Basic water cycle.
• Natural resources.
• Pollution and its effects.
• Simple ways to protect the environment.

9. Scientific Thinking & Simple Experiments

• Observe objects and natural events.
• Sort and classify objects.
• Ask simple science questions.
• Make simple predictions.
• Follow simple experiment steps.
• Record observations using pictures, words, or simple tables.
• Compare results.
• Explain what was observed.

Important Note for Participants

The topics and subtopics provided are the main areas of the syllabus. They are not limited to only the examples mentioned.