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Portions for Year 3 - Science
1. What plants need
 Requirements of plants for life and growth (air, light, water, nutrients from
soil, and room to grow) and how they vary from plant to plant.
 Identify how much water is needed to maintain a plantʼs health.
 Effect of space on plant growth.
 Importance of soil and how it provides nutrients for plant growth
 Effect of light, warmth and fertilizer on plant growth
Parts of Plants
 Identify and describe different parts of the flowering plant – root,
stem/trunk, leaves and flowers.
 Recognise the way in which water is transported within plants.
 Process of Photosynthesis
 Edible parts of a plant – Root, Stem, Leaves, Flower, Fruit and Seed
 Label the different parts of a flower – stigma, pistil, stamen, pollen, sepal
and petal
 Life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed
dispersal.
2. Movement and Feeding
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Sort food into five different groups depending on their effects on the body.
Define Diet and Balanced diet; importance of balanced diet.
Diet of pet animals
Identify carnivores, herbivores and omnivores animals and their diet.
 Explain that some of the foods that we eat can be poisonous for other
animals.
 Identify common bones in human body and the main functions of human
skeleton.
 Importance of muscles and joints in human body.
 Identify what an x-ray picture of our body shows.
3. Light and Shadows
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Identify Light sources and Reflectors.
Explain how shadows are formed.
Identify the shadow of an object cast by a light source and spot the mistakes.
Sort opaque, transparent and translucent objects and the characteristics of
the shadow cast by them.
 Explain the change in size and direction of shadow cast by the Sun during the
day.
 Identify patterns in the way that the sizes of shadows change in relation to
the position of Sun.
 Identify patterns in the way that the sizes of shadows change in relation to
the change in position of the light source and the solid object.
5 Magnets and Forces
 Define force.
 Identify a pull force and a push force.
 Recognize that a force acts in a particular direction, which can be shown on
a diagram by an arrow.
 Explain the effect of force on a catapult.
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Compare how things move on different surfaces.
Identify different shaped magnets.
Sort magnetic and non-magnetic materials.
Predict whether two magnets will attract or repel each other, depending on
which poles are facing each other.
 Compare the strengths of different magnets by counting the number of
paper clips it can hold.
 Compare strengths of different magnets by measuring distance a paper clip
moves.
 List some ways in which magnets are used at home and at school.
6 Rocks and Soil
 Explain why we cannot see rocks often.
 Uses of rocks – granite, marble, limestone, sandstone, slate, pumice etc.
 Identify the different types of rocks based on the physical properties and
appearances.
 Describe the process of fossil formation.
 Identify similarities and differences in features between different types of
soil.
 Explain why soil is important to humans.
 Explain the importance of earthworms in keeping soil aerated and crumbly
in texture which is good for growing plants.
Refer the Text book, Note book, Work sheets and the Active-Learn
allocations.