Creating color

• Characteristics of liquids
• Compare water with one or more other liquids, such as cooking oil, glycerin or water mixed with liquid detergent
• Amount of liquid absorbed by different materials
• Suitability of different materials for containing liquids
• Liquid water can be changed to other states
• The water level in open containers will decrease due to evaporation, but the water level in closed containers will not decrease
• Wet surface will dry more quickly when exposed to wind or heating
• Water is a component of many materials and of living things
• Human responsibilities for maintaining clean supplies of water

Buoyancy and Boats

• Classify and order materials on the basis of their buoyancy
• Floating of objects
• Assembling of floating materials
• Modify a watercraft to increase the load it will carry
• Modify a watercraft to increase its stability in water
• Appropriateness of various materials to the construction of watercraft
• Methods of construction that is appropriate to the design task
• Designing of watercraft and its propulsion through air
• Why a given material, design or component is appropriate to the design task

Magnetism

• Use of magnets
• Materials and their magnetic property
• Magnets attract materials with iron or steel in them
• Polarity of magnets
• Device that uses a magnets
• Materials that are transparent to the effects of a magnet
• The strength of magnet

Hot and Cold Temperature

• Temperature in relative terms
• Temperature in degree Celsius
• Changes in materials
• Safe practices for handling hot and cold materials and for avoiding potential dangers from heat sources
• Changes in human body temperature and its effects
• Ways in which the temperature in homes and buildings can be adjusted.
• How local buildings are heated
• Role of insulation in keeping things hot or cold
• Materials that insulate animals from the cold
• A device to keep something hot or cold
• Ways in which temperature changes affect us in our daily lives

Small Crawling and Flying Animals

• Different kinds of small crawling and flying animals
• Small animals that are found in the local environment
• Animals and their basic needs
• Animals’ role in food chain
• Interaction of living and non living things
• Adaptive characteristics of animals
• Animals and their young ones
• Animals and their interaction and its effects on the environment

*All academic plans will be customized to accommodate the student’s individual needs.