Syllabus

Subject: Science

Grade: 5

Book: Science Book 5

Number of lessons per week: 2

Number of lessons per year: 74

Date: September 2006

Written by: Farkasné Megyeri Veronika

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Lessons Lessons’ topic Vocabulary, new

terminology

Tasks, skill development Tools needed

1 Revision Revision of the last year’s

topic and vocabulary.

Word-fight, twenty-questions,

memory pyramid

wordcards from the last year

2 Revision Revision of the last year’s

topic and vocabulary.

3 Revision Revision of the last year’s

topic and vocabulary.

4 Check your

Knowledge

Answering the questions in the book.

Page: 4

Checking the new book – What are

we going to learn about?

pictures in the book, flowers, parts of

trees, leaves, drawings, etc.

5 UNIT 1:

OUR LIVING

ENVIRONMENT

The Plum

angiosperm, enclosed, fleshy-

pulp, medium-sized, smooth,

stone-fruit, waxy skin,

widespread

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the plant, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

a plum, a plum seed broken into two, a

piece of a plum tree’s bark, slides about

the plum tree, plastic flower model, a

pine cone, coloured board marker

6 Apple Tree apple-fruit, cane, filmy,

perennial, sapling, septum,

twig

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the plant, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

an apple or two apples cut into half

across and alongside; apple seeds, a

piece of bark of an apple tree, slides

about the apple tree, plastic flower

model, coloured

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7 Grape and Vineyard berry-fruit, bunch, main root,

peronospora, vine-shoot,

vine-stock

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the plant, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

leaves, shoots, fruits and branches of

the grape, slides about the plant,

pictures or slides about peronospora,

coloured markers

8 Tomato and Green

Pepper

annual, cavity, inflated berry,

lateral root, main root system,

multi-seeded berry, soft stem,

vein

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the plant, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

a tomato and green pepper (can be

different types) cut into half, slides or

pictures of the plants, a model, a

drawing or a real main root system of a

plant, slides or picture of the plants,

coloured markers

9 Carrot and Parsley biennial, compound, store,

taproot

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the plant, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

a carrot and a turnip with leaves and

seeds if possible, pictures or slides

about biennial plant sand flowers of the

carrot, coloured markers

10 Cabbage (short vocabulary test)

juicy, lateral vein, main vein,

stalk

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the plant, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

a half of a cabbagge, some separate

cabbage leaves, other leaves of other

plants, slides or pictures of the cabbage

in the first and in the second year,

coloured markers

11 Potato modified, poisonous, shoot, Examining and drawing of the parts a potato tuber, some potato leaves,

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tuber, velvet of the plant, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

model of potato flower, slides or

pictures of potato plant, some flour,

some other types of vegetables, iodine,

coloured markers

12 Onion and Garlic bulb, cuisine, coat leaf, equal,

garlic, secondary roots,

storage

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the plant, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

an onion bulb (with some green leaves

if possible), some garlic, (maybe an

onion flower from the florist’s, or a

tulip bulb with the old bulb on it from

the garden), pictures or drawings of the

development of onion, coloured

markers

13 Harmful Insects in

the Garden: May

Beetle

abdomen, chewer, chitin,

complete, development, egg,

feeler, larva, metamorphosis,

pore, pupa, shedding, thorax,

wing case

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the plant, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

real beetles, pictures about complete

metamorphosis, pictures about the parts

of the beetle’s body, coloured markers

14 Harmful Insects in

the Garden: Apple

Ermel and Cabbage

Butterfly

almost, apple ermel,

caterpillar, invisible, similar,

spot

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the plant, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

real butterflies, other butterflies’ wings

(to show the differences), coloured

markers

15-16 Hungarian Revision Using and practising the

Hungarian teminology

Describing diagrams, labeling If you can, bring most of the objects,

fruits, seeds and pictures you have

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pictures correctly in Hungarian.

Using the Hungarian activity book.

already shown during the weeks.

17 English Revision Using and practising the

English vocabulary

Describing diagrams, labelling

pictures correctly in English,

developing speaking skills.

If you can, bring most of the objects,

fruits, seeds and pictures you have

already shown during the weeks.

18 TEST 1 Plants in the Garden

19 Domesticated Hog bulbous, cylinder-like, even-

toed ungulate, eye-tooth, fore-

tooth, hoof, mammal, molar,

omnivore, set of, ungulates,

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the animal, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

pictures of pigs, a skull of a pig, some

bulbous molars, even-toed ungulate leg,

coloured markers

20 Cattle calf, cud, herbivore, retch,

ruminant, rumination, to

swallow, udder, wrinkled

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the animal, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

horns and antlers, even-toed ungulate

leg, wrinkled molares and a skull of the

cattle, picture of the members of the

cattle family, coloured markers

21 Horse foal, hay, mane, mare,

muscular, odd-toed ungulates,

ploughs, stallion, stud,

watchful

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the animal, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

horseshoe, hooves of a horse, hooves of

cows or pigs, objects like hairbrush

made from horsefur, any other objects

connected to horses, coloured markers

22 Hen and Duck down feather, fat-gland,

filtrate, flight feather, hatch,

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the animal, labelling pictures,

pictures about the hen and the duck, or

stuffed animals, legs and beaks if

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lamellated beak, plates,

scratching leg, webbed-foot

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

possibe, a hard boiled egg, feathers of

different birds, coloured markers

23 Dog and Cat carnivore, claw, crested, draw

in, tearing tooth

(short vocabulary test)

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the animal, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

pictures of dogs and cats, skull of a cat

or a dog, crested molars, eye-teeth,

coloured markers

24 Animals Around

Our Homes

backbone, invertebrate,

migratory bird, rodent,

segment, slimy, suck up,

swallow, tube, whiskers

Examining and drawing of the parts

of the animals, labelling pictures,

developing listening, speaking and

reading skills. Exercises in the book.

real, stuffed animals if you can or

pictures about them, rodent’s fore-teeth,

hand lens, coloured markers

25-26 Hungarian Revision Using and practising the

Hungarian teminology

Describing diagrams, labelling

pictures correctly in Hungarian.

Using the Hungarian activity book.

If you can, bring most of the objects,

teeth, legs, animals and pictures you

have already shown during the weeks.

27 English Revision Using and practising the

English vocabulary

Describing diagrams, labelling

pictures correctly in English,

developing speaking skills.

If you can, bring most of the objects,

teeth, legs, animals and pictures you

have already shown during the weeks.

28 TEST 2 Animals on Farms

29 Animals We Keep

in Our Homes

Developing speaking skills by

talking about their pets. The children

can experience how to treat an

real animals, pets

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animal.

30 UNIT 2:

COGNITIVE

PROCESSES

Matter and States of

Matter

gas, liquid, material, matter,

observe, plastic, property,

solid, states of matter, steam,

take up space

Using the experiments to show the

connections between processes,

describing processes, developing

listening, speaking and reading

skills. Exercises and experiments in

the book.

a magic box with all different objects in

it made from different materials, a scarf

for covering the children’s eyes, a

plastic hypodermic, coloured markers

31 Changes in States of

Matter

boiling, condensation,

evaporation, freezing,

melting, particles, vapour

Using the experiments to show the

connections between processes,

describing processes, developing

listening, speaking and reading

skills. Exercises and experiments in

the book.

some icecubes or snow, a cup, Bunsen-

burner, lighter, coloured markers

32 Properties of Gases

and Air

atmospheric pressure, bar,

barometer, breathe, carbon-

dioxide, contain, nitrogen,

odorless, oxygen, take up

more room

Using the experiments to show the

connections between processes,

describing processes, developing

listening, speaking and reading

skills. Experiments in the book.

a safe area in the classroom, aerosol

spray, cut out pieces of the diagram in

the book, a candle, lighter, some

coloured water, a small bowl, a glass, a

barometer, scissors, coloured markers

33 Volume and Mass alike, balance, mass, measure,

volume

Using the experiments to show the

connections between processes,

describing processes, developing

listening, speaking and reading

a balloon, a bottle of water, a bowl, a

glass, some paper towel, some water, a

balance, some of the objects from the

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skills. Exercises and experiments in

the book.

‘magic box’, coloured markers

34 Quantities and

Measuring 1:

Length and Area

area, distance, length,

measuring, quantity, square

meter, surface, unit

Measuring alone, changing units,

own experiences. Developing

speaking and reading skills.

different rulers and plastic cubes in

different shapes or sizes, some old

papers torn into different sized pieces

35 Quantities and

Measuring 2:

Temperature and

Time

decide, degree, event,

examine, to last, scientist,

thermometer

Measuring alone, changing units,

own experiences. Developing

speaking and reading skills.

different thermometers, different

watches, coloured markers

36-37 Hungarian Revision Using and practising the

Hungarian terminology.

Describing diagrams, labelling

pictures, explaining processes

correctly in Hungarian.

Using the Hungarian activity book.

most of the objects you used for making

the experiments, coloured markers

38 English Revision Using and practising the

English vocabulary.

Describing diagrams, labelling

pictures, explaining processes

correctly in English, developing

speaking skills.

most of the objects you used for making

the experiments, coloured markers

39 TEST 3 Cognitive Processes

40 UNIT 3: WHAT

CAN YOU READ

ON A MAP?

environment, features, from

above, map, piece of, rate,

reality, reduced in size, scale

Improving knowledge about maps.

How to read a map? Developing

listening, speaking, reading skills

and questioning techniques.

many different kinds of maps, the

children’s own maps, coloured markers

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The Secrets of the

Map

Exercises in the book and on maps.

41 How a Compass

Works?

attract, compass, effect, face,

interaction, magnetic field, -

force, - pole, needle, repel

Using the experiments to show the

connections, developing speaking

skills. Experiments in the book.

compasses, magnets, an iron ball, iron

powder, a plastic tray overhead

projector, coloured markers

42 Distance and

Direction on the

Map

abbreviation, compare,

direction, main cardinal

points, linear scale, position,

side cardinal points

Improving knowledge about maps.

How to read a map? Developing

listening, speaking, reading skills

and questioning techniques.

Exercises in the book and on maps.

a map, a long piece of paper, a scarf,

coloured markers

43 Features Shown on

the Map

feature, height number, high

mountain range, lowland,

middle mountain range,

represent, sea-level

Improving knowledge about maps.

How to read a map? Developing

listening, speaking, reading skills

and questioning techniques.

Exercises in the book and on maps.

a feature map of Hungary, pictures or

slides of different landscapes, coloured

markers

44 Features of the

Land

slope, valley, plateau, range

of mountains and hills, peak,

delta, estuary, tributary,

channel, peninsula, source,

reef, desert, oasis

Labelling pictures and finding places

on the map. Developing speaking

and reading-understanding.

a transparent copy of page 64, overhead

projector, some cards with all the

features written on them, coloured

markers

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45-46 Hungarian Revision Using and practising the

Hungarian teminology

Describing diagrams, labelling

pictures, explaining processes

correctly in Hungarian.

Using the Hungarian activity book.

most of the objects you used for making

the experiments, magnets, pictures,

maps, compasses coloured markers

47 English Revision Using and practising the

English vocabulary

Describing diagrams, labelling

pictures, explaining processes

correctly in English, developing

speaking skills.

most of the objects you used for making

the experiments, magnets, pictures,

maps, compasses coloured markers

48 TEST 4 What can you read on a map?

49 UNIT 4:

WEATHER AND

CLIMATE

The Sun’s Radiation

and Sunlight

depend on, light source,

Lunar/Solar eclipse, prism,

radiation, reflect, shadow,

spread, transparent, white

light

Examining general, basic processes

in nature. Developing speaking skills

by explaining these. Experiments

and exercises in the book.

inflatable Sun, Earth and Moon,

overhead projector, a prism, a laser, a

flashlight, a glass of water, a straw or a

pencil, coloured markers

50 Experiments with

Temperature

angle, changes of

temperature, mean daily

temperature, predictable, Sun

rays, weather forecast

Examining general, basic processes

in nature. Developing speaking skills

by explaining these. Experiments

and exercises in the book.

a slide or picture of the Earth’s climate

zones with the Sun rays, a plastic globe,

a flashlight, a picture of a high

mountain covered with snow, coloured

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markers

51 Wind and

Precipitation

blow, breeze, dew, hail,

outdoor, parallel,

precipitation, sleet, water

vapour, frost

Examining general, basic processes

in nature. Developing speaking skills

by explaining these. Experiments

and exercises in the book.

pictures about tornados, floods, the

paper snake used in the lesson

‘Properties of Gases and Air’, coloured

markers

52 Where Does the

Water of the Rivers

Come from?

altogether, carry back,

groundwater, process, return,

water-cycle

Examining general, basic processes

in nature. Developing speaking skills

by explaining these. Exercises in

book.

a poster about the water-cycle, a blank

poster about the water-cycle, blue and

red arrows, wordcards, coloured

markers

53 Weather and

Climate

average, climate, humid, part,

zone

Examining general, basic processes

in nature. Developing speaking skills

by explaining these. Experiments

and exercises in the book.

weather forcast pictures from

newspapers, a map about the climate

zones, the picture or slide used to show

the Sun rays reaching the Earth

54-55 Hungarian Revision Using and practising the

Hungarian teminology

Describing diagrams, labelling

pictures, explaining processes

correctly in Hungarian.

Using the Hungarian activity book.

most of the objects you used for making

the experiments, maps, pictures,

posters, wordcards, coloured markers

56 English Revision Using and practising the

English vocabulary

Describing diagrams, labelling

pictures, explaining processes

correctly in English, developing

speaking skills.

most of the objects you used for making

the experiments, maps, pictures,

posters, wordcards, coloured markers

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57 TEST 5 Weather and Climate

58 UNIT 5:

CHANGES OF

THE EARTH’S

SURFACE

The Surface-work

of Temperature

Changes

breaking-up, cause, contract,

crack, expand, humidity,

stick, structure, surface-work

Examining general, basic processes

in nature. Developing speaking skills

by explaining these. Experiments

and exercises in the book.

a picture about a pothole, icecubes or a

plastic bottle from the freezer, Bunsen-

burner, glass, plastic or glass lid, some

rocks, coloured markers

59 The Surface-work

of Wind and Ice

building work, deepen,

destroying work, dune, dust,

glaciers, loess, moraine,

natural forces

Examining general, basic processes

in nature. Developing speaking skills

by explaining these. Experiments

and exercises in the book.

pictures or slides of dunes, glaciers,

moraines in high mountains, some

loess, some grouts, a plastic tray,

coloured markers

60 The Surface-work

of Rainwater and

Rivers

canyon, deposit, dissolve,

limestone, pebble, sediment,

stalactite, stalagmite

Examining general, basic processes

in nature. Developing speaking skills

by explaining these. Experiments

and exercises in the book.

pictures or slides form Aggtelek

National Park, rivers, islands, reefs,

canyons, a map of Hungary, a piece of

limestone, some pebbles and sand,

coloured markers

61 Types of Water

Surface

brook, dam, impermeable

layer, karst, mouth of a river,

river bank, river bed, spring,

inland water, stream,

surrounded, swamp

Examining general, basic processes

in nature. Developing speaking skills

by explaining these. Developing map

reading skills. Experiments and

exercises in the book.

pictures about water surfaces, parts of a

river-syster, a map of rivers of Hungary,

feature map of Europe, coloured

markers

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62 Mountain

Formation

active, bend, dormant,

eruption, fault, fold, several,

volcanism

Examining general, basic processes

in nature. Developing speaking skills

by explaining these. Developing map

reading skills. Experiments and

exercises in the book.

slides or pictures of different types of

mountains, two jumpers or kardigans, a

feature map of Hungary and Europe,

coloured markers

63 Some Common

Rocks

igneous, marble, mineral,

metamorphic, molten,

sedimentary

Examining general, basic processes

in nature. Experiments and exercises

in the book.

collection of stones, a practice piece of

dolomite and limestone, vinegar,

coloured markers

64 Some Common

Rocks (Extra

Activity lesson )

limestone, sandstone, clay,

basalt, andesite, granite, slate,

marble

Children’s own experiment lesson.

Examining different stones and

rocks.

an activity kit with a collection of

different rocks, fossils of marine

animals

65 Lowlands cover, dale, disappear, fill up,

neighbouring, plain, remain,

sink, skeleton

Examining general, basic processes

in nature. Developing speaking skills

by explaining these. Experiments

and exercises in the book.

feature map of Hungary and Europe,

pictures or slides about lowland

formation, a piece of limestone with a

fossil in it, coloured markers

66 Ground and Soil decay, fertile, humus, loam,

sandy, subsoil

Examining general, basic processes

in nature. Developing speaking skills

by explaining these. Experiments

and exercises in the book.

a picture or slide of the structure and

layers of soil, some rocks, a balance,

Bunsen-burner, a bowl, weight, some

sand, some clay, some loam, filter-

paper, glass tubes, some water,

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measuring cup, coloured markers

67-68 Hungarian Revision Using and practising the

Hungarian teminology

Describing diagrams, labelling

pictures, explaining processes

correctly in Hungarian.

Using the Hungarian activity book.

most of the objects you used for making

the experiments, maps, pictures,

posters, wordcards, coloured markers

69 English Revision Using and practising the

English vocabulary

Describing diagrams, labelling

pictures, explaining processes

correctly in English, developing

speaking skills.

most of the objects you used for making

the experiments, maps, pictures,

posters, wordcards, coloured markers

70 TEST 6 The Earth’s Surface

71-74 Revision of the

Year

Discussing any problems during the

year. Reinforcing basic knowledge,

preparing for the next years.

Using videos, slides, extra exercises.

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