Condensation and commonly asked questions

Do you know how to answer commonly asked questions on condensation? For Primary Science, upper block "Cycles": Water Cycle.

Evaporation and Boiling: Compare and Contrast

Do you know the similarity and differences between evaporation and boiling?

Do you know the difference between water vapour and steam?

Watch this video to learn about the difference between water vapour and steam:

Reproduction in plants and reproduction in humans - revision and comparison

Summary for reproduction in plants

Parts of a flower - reproduction in flowering plants

For students who missed the lesson on Activity 1.1 in Cycles (upper block science) Workbook.

Germination of seeds

We watched these in class today.

Ferns

Read Cycles Textbook page 12.

Watch this video and complete Cycles Workbook pages 7 and 8.

Bring your workbook tomorrow for discussion.

Reproduction in plants

What we'll learn in the next science topic:

And many more interesting facts about plants and how they reproduce!

Here's a video to recap:

World Water Day

Today we watched this video during our ILEAD lesson.

This is also relevant to Chapter 4 The Water Cycle in our Cycles science textbook, as we discussed about how water is important to us and how we should conserve our water.

If you are interested to find out more about the clean water crisis, here are more links for you.
http://water.org/water-crisis/water-sanitation-facts
http://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/water-scarcity
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/freshwater/freshwater-crisis

Also, you may want to read up on our very own World Water Day in Singapore: http://www.singaporeworldwaterday.com

The Singapore Water Story

We have discussed about the 'Four National Taps' and keeping our water supply sustainable in today's lesson.

If you are interested to find out more about our Singapore Water Story, click on the picture below.

The frozen hotel

On the first page of chapter 3 (page 26) in your science textbook, you read about a special hotel in Sweden that is made almost entirely of ice.

Here is a video about the special frozen hotel.

What state of matter is ice?

Non-flowering plants

Dear children, if you want to take a look at the spore bags under the leafs of the fern plants, you can look for the plants in our eco garden.

Check out this corner!

These are the fern leaves found in this corner.

Here's another fern plant!

The spore bags can be found under the fern plant.

Have fun exploring the eco garden!

Growing green beans

The green beans that we are using are also called mung beans in some places.

In activities 1.3 and 1.3A, we are using kidney beans. 

And here are our green beans for activity 1.2:

Maple seed helicopter

The maple seeds have 'wings' and they can spin like helicopters as they fall from the tree. These seeds are dispersed by wind, as they are easily carried by the wind, and will be carried over greater distances.

Children from P5 Inquirer watched this video in class today before the activity to make your own "maple seed helicopter".

You may download and print this PDF file to create your own "maple seed helicopter" at home.