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Chapter 22: Particulate Model of Matter Term 1: Week 1-3 (15 periods)
Textbook (page) 91 92-93 Workbook * Worksheet 22.1

To link back during related topics (e.g. effects of heat, transport in living things, electricity)
Practicals** Activity 22.1 (pg 51-52) Activity 22.2 (pg 53-56) No of Periods 1 3 IT Asknlearn: Particulate Model of Matter Sunflower learning: Solids, liquids and gases Diffusion http://www.youtube.co m/watch? v=xYFAj50c7xM (0.00 1.58s) Animation: http://www.media.pear son.com.au/schools/cw /au_sch_whalley_sf1_ 1/int/matter.html 97--99 4 Interactive: http://lgfl.skoool.co.uk /viewdetails_KS3.aspx ?ID=593 Students observe the motion of polystyrene balls in a petri dish of water (Brownian motion: constant and random motion of particles) WHITE SPACE Suggested Strategies and Activities

Learning outcomes 22.1 22.2 State what matter is made up of. Explain that matter is made up of small particles which are in constant and random motion Define diffusion 22.3 Describe the arrangement and movement of particles in o solids o liquids o gases

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Role play: Particulate model of matter (A Guide to T & L of LSS) (p 3.4 b-3 to b-6) SAIL Activity: Can you see it? (LSS: 3.4.b-7 to b-11)

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Explain melting and boiling in terms of the conversion of the states of matter

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Chapter 23: Atoms and Molecules Term 1: Week 4-6 (15 periods)
Learning outcomes 23.1 23.2 23.3 23.4 Explain what an atom is. Compare the size of an atom to other objects Using/draw models and symbols to represent atoms. Describe an atom as an electrically neutral particle made up of a positively charged nucleus with negatively charged electrons moving around the nucleus Distinguish between atoms of the same element and atoms of different elements Recognize that an ions formed when an atom gains or loses electrons (s) Compare atoms and molecules Distinguish between molecules of elements and molecules o compounds State the number and types of atoms, given in the chemical formula of a compound. Textbook (page) 103104 105 106 107109 Activity 23.1 Workbook * Worksheet 23.1 Practicals*

To link back during related topics (e.g. effects of heat, electricity, digestion)
No of Periods 1 Powerpoint slides Asknlearn SMART class/ Secondary 2 Science: Atoms, Molecules & Ions Sunflower learning: Atoms and Ions Bonding 3D structure of atom (loopable videos): http://www.youtube.co m/watch? v=9_eqDOtyYDc&feat ure=related http://www.youtube.co m/watch? v=sWVX_rGzzQU IT WHITE SPACE Suggested Strategies and Activities Problem-solving: Grapes & Peas (A guide to T & L of LSS)

Co-operative Learning strategy: 1 stay, 3 stray/Think-pair share Activity 1: Using coloured styrofoam balls to represent atoms. To form models of molecules of elements and molecules of compounds using the coloured Styrofoam balls Activity 2: Using coloured thumb tacks or magnets to form molecules of elements and compounds.

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Chapter 12: Heat and Its Effects Term 1 Week 7-8 (7 periods) Learning outcomes 1.1

Chapter 13: Transmission of Textbook heat

(page) 171-174 Understand that all matter (solids, liquids and gases) expand when heated and contract when cooled.

Workbook * Worksheet 12.1

Practicals** Activity 12.1Thermal expansion of solids (2 periods) Activity 12.2thermal expansion of different solids (2 periods) -

No of Period s 4

IT http://www.edque st.ca/pdf/7-32.pdf Asknlearn: Effects of heat

WHITE SPACE Suggested Strategies and Activities for Inquiry Learning DEMONSTRATION By turning the lava lamp on and ask students to observe the rising and falling of the heated wax in the lamp. Let students try to figure out the workings of a lava lamp.

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Recognise the effects and applications of heat in our daily lives.

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http://www1.moe. edu.sg/learn@/sin gaporerivertrail/se c/G041_Dunman_ Sec/bridges.htm.

Activity 1 Ask the students to hold the hand boiler and squeeze it. After that, challenge your students to get the liquid back to the bottom without turning it over. Furthermore, ask students to also submerge the base in a glass filled with ice. ICT: Projects Students gather information on the various uses and effects of heat in our daily lives and infer how the design of household appliances and equipment takes into consideration the expansion and contraction of objects when heat is absorbed and given out. Students may then communicate their understanding of the effects of heat through blog, posters, charts, articles etc.

TERM 1: Weeks 7- 8 COMMON TEST (3 periods)

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Term 1 Week 9-10 (10 periods)

Learning Outcomes 1.1 Understand that heat is a form of energy that can move from one place to another. Name the three processes of heat movement. Explain what is meant by conduction. Identify and explain applications of conduction in their daily lives. Explain what is meant by convection. Explain convection in liquids and gases. Identify and explain applications of convection in their daily lives. Textbook (page) 184185 Workbook * Practicals** No of Periods 3 IT Asknlearn: Transmission of heat http://www.wisconline.com/Objects/ViewObj ect.aspx?ID=SCE304 http://www.scool.co.uk/gcse/physics/ener gy-transfers/revise-it/howdoes-heat-energy-move 4 http://www.scienceonline.co. uk/energy/conduction2.html WHITE SPACE Suggested Strategies and Activities for Inquiry Learning * Conduction, convection and radiation are to be taught in depth to create a good foundation for Upper Secondary Physics*

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Activity 13.1Conduction in different solids (2 periods)

3.1 3.2 3.3

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Activity 13.3convection currents (2 periods)

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Explain what is meant by radiation. Understand how a body radiates and absorbs heat. Differentiate radiation from conduction and convection. Identify and explain applications of radiation.

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Activity 13.4Radiation of heat (2 periods)

National Education Discuss with students an example of radiation using the Greenhouse effect, which causes global warming. SAIL ACTIVITY WORKSHEET Title: Some like it hot (Refer to guide to teaching and learning of LSS Pg 2-T6-69 or SAIL booklet Pg D-7-4) INQUIRY ACTIVITY Ask students to make a container to keep ice-cream from melting. Judge based on the degree of melting of ice-cream.

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Chapter 25: Transport in Living Things Term 2: Week 1 2 (10 periods)

Learning Outcomes Textbook (page) 135-138 Workbook Practicals No of Periods 1 IT WHITE SPACE Suggested Strategies and Activities for Inquiry Learning LEAD Thumbdrive: Inquiry Lesson: Diffusion in liquid SAIL: WHO KILLED SAILOR JOE?

25.1

Describe the process of diffusion Explain how diffusion is involved in the transport system

Worksheet 25.1 (p. 81 -86) Worksheet 25.2

Act 25.1

IT Lesson: Applet demonstrating diffusion & Osmosis Asknlearn: Movement of substances in and out of cells Sunflower Learning: Osmosis

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25.3 25.4 25.5 25.6

Describe the process of osmosis Explain how osmosis is involved in the transport system Explain the need for a transport system in human beings and plants Describe briefly the process of absorption of water and mineral salts by the root of a plant Describe briefly the transport of water and manufactured food substances in the plant Describe briefly how blood acts as a transport medium in the circulatory system of human beings

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Chapter 26: Digestion in Human Beings Term 2 Week 3-4 (10 periods)
Learning Outcomes 26.1 Explain why food is required. Textbook (page) 153 154 Workbook Worksheet 26.1 (p.93 96) 1 26.2 26.3 26.4 Describe the nutrients found in food. Explain what is meant by digestion. State the meaning of enzymes. Describe the characteristics of enzymes. Identify the main parts of a digestive system and the processes that take place. Describe how a digestive system helps in the digestion of food and the part played by enzymes in digestion 155 156 157 158 Worksheet 26.2 (p.97 104) Activity 26.1 (p. 87 89) 1 Practicals No of Periods IT Asknlearn SMART class & Secondary 2 Science: Digestion & Digestion in Animals Sunflower learning: Digestion Sunflower learning: Enzymes WHITE SPACE Suggested Strategies and Activities SAIL: THE QUEST TO DIGEST (LSS Exp/N(A): p3.4. e-3 to e-7)

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Activity 26.2 (p. 91 92) Activity 26.3 (p. 93-94) Activity 26.4 (p. 95-96)

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Week 6- Revision for Mid Year Exam Week 7-9: End of Year Exam/Marking

Chapter 15: Ecology Term 2 Week 10 (5 periods) Term 3 Week 1 (5 periods)

Learning Outcomes 1.1 Explain the importance of physical factors like air, water, temperature, light, mineral salts and pH to the life of organisms. Textbook (page) 226 231 Workbook* Worksheet 15.1 Practicals** No of Periods 2 Asknlearn: Living things in an ecosystem IT WHITE SPACE Suggested Strategies and Activities for Inquiry Learning Simple research You may wish to conduct a simple class investigation before the lesson by asking each student to examine where ants are found within their homes. Teachers can conduct a simple statistical data collection showing the distribution of ants within each household. Questions that lead up to the lesson proper

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2.1 Explain the terms habitat, population, community, producers, consumers and decomposers. 3.1 Identify a habitat and some of the organisms associated with it.

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http://www.uen.org/ utahlink/activities/v iew_activity.cgi? activity_id=3792

may include reasons for the highest distribution of ants found within a location in the household and reasons why ants are scarce in other areas of household. Field trip Be An Eco-Detective Students make careful observation of plants in their natural environment and infer from observations of the plant and its surroundings, how a plant and an animal interact with one another and with the nonliving environment.

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4.1 Show an understanding of the interrelationship among the various organisms in a community. (Examples of interrelationships are predator-prey relationship, mutualism and parasitism) 5.1 Show an understanding that the habitat together with the organisms living in it forms an ecosystem.

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Sunflower learning: Predator prey

Virtual Eco-Park Students use a virtual Eco-Park to learn the interrelationships among the various organisms in a community. Students will explore the challenges in maintaining a balanced ecosystem and infer the importance of conserving our environment.

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6.1 Differentiate a food chain from a food web, and construct a food web in a specific habitat.

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http://www.ecokids online.com/pub/eco _info/topics/frogs/c hain_reaction/ http://www.gould.e du.au/foodwebs/kid s_web.htm

7.1 Describe the noncyclic flow of energy through the food chain in a named ecosystem starting with the green plants as a primary food producer. 8.1 Explain the diminishing energy transfer as illustrated in a food pyramid. 9.1 Show an understanding of the concept of recycling of nutrients in living organisms.

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http://www.ecokids online.com/pub/eco _info/topics/frogs/c hain_reaction/

Where Did The Food Go? Students learn about energy flow in a simple food chain using a bottle of soft drink, distributed by one-tenth each time to each subsequent student in a group. This illustrates the loss of energy as the original energy from plants is passed to the animal at each higher level of the food chain.

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Describe briefly the carbon and nitrogen cycles.

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http://library.thinkq uest.org/11226/ http://library.thinkq uest.org/11353/nitr ogen.htm

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Discuss the role of the carbon and nitrogen cycles in maintaining a balanced ecosystem.

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Natures Roundabouts Students bury waste materials for a few weeks to investigate which materials can be broken down by decomposers and which need to be recycled to be useful to living things again. Students may also gather information on non-biodegradable products from Mans every day activities and suggest ways to reduce their impact on the environment. 1 Timelapse video of decomposition: http://www.youtub e.com/watch? v=c0En-_BVbGc

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Explain the role of decomposers in the ecosystem.

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13.1Pr Predict the consequences of selective addition or removal of an organism from an environment.

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Sunflower learning: Predator prey

INQUIRY LESSON: SCIENCE TRAIL Get students to go through the science trail and answer questions based on it.

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Chapter 17: Light Term 3: Week 2-3 (10 periods)

Learning outcomes State that light travels in straight lines. compare the speed of light, sound and common moving objects. Explain how reflection is affected by the texture of a surface. State the uses and effects of reflecting surfaces. State the characteristics of the image formed by a plane mirror Describe some effects and consequences of refraction Describe the dispersion of white light by a prism. Explain who we see the colour of objects in white light and coloured light. Distinguish between primary and secondary colours.

*Focus more detailed on Laws of Reflection, Reflection, Refraction, Ray Diagrams and imagedrawing techniques.
Textbook (page) 17-19 Workbook Worksheet 17.1 (p.9-12) Practicals No of Periods 1 IT Powerpoint slides WHITE SPACE Suggested Strategies and Activities LEAD Resources: Theory Light and Colour Activity Light and Colour Quiz Light and colour Exploration Get Your Lights Right! Inquiry Learning/Cooperative Learning Mirror Mirror on the Bus (LSS T & L Guide: p 1.3-21 to 25) 23-25 25-26 27-28 Activity 17.3-17.4 (p.11-15) Activity 17.2 (p.9-10) 4 1 1 Reflection of light (LSS T & L Guide: P 3.5. b-3 to b-5)

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Worksheet 17.2 (p.13-18)

Activity 17.1 (p.7-8)

Asknlearn: Light and colour Sunflower learning: Colour

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Chapter 18: Electricity Term 3: Week 4-6 (15 periods) #optional

Learning outcomes Textbook (page) Workbook* Practicals** No of Periods IT WHITE SPACE Suggested Strategies and Activities for Inquiry Learning

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State that electricity is a form of energy. Explain what is meant by current and state its unit. Draw and interpret the relevant circuit diagrams. Set up the relevant circuits containing electrical sources, switches, lamps and ammeters. Explain what is meant by potential difference and state its unit. Draw and interpret the relevant circuit diagrams. Set up the relevant circuits containing electrical sources, switches, lamps, ammeters and voltmeters.

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Worksheet 18.1 (p. 1928) Activity 18.1 (p. 1719) 5 Activity 18.2 (p. 1719) http://www.bbc.co.uk /schools/sciencecl ips/ages/6_7/elect ricity.shtml Asknlearn: Electricity Sunflower learning: Simple circuits

LEAD Resources: Theory Introducing Electricity Activity Introducing Electricity Quiz Introducing Electricity Test Bank Electricity Inquiry Learning Electricity (LSS T & L: P3.5 C-4 -12) SAIL Activity Electric Current: Here or There?

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Explain what is meant by resistance and state its unit. Draw and interpret the relevant circuit diagrams. Set up the relevant circuits containing electrical sources, switches, lamps, ammeters, voltmeters and resistors. #Recognise that the resistance of a circuit can be varied by arranging resistors in series or parallel [optional for N(A)].

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Chapter 19: Using Electricity Term 3 week 7-8 (10 periods)

Learning outcomes Explain what power is and state its units #Solve simple problems on the cost of using applications [optional for NA] the definition of power of a circuit component and its unit discuss the importance of reducing electrical energy wastage. Understand household electricity and wiring. Describe the household electrical hazards Define the various precautionary measures to ensure the safe use of electricity at home. Textbook (page) 51-54 Workbook* Worksheet 19.1 (p.29-30) Practicals* * Activity 19.1-19.2 (p.27-31) No of Periods 2 IT Powerpoint slides: Using Electricity Asknlearn: Using Electricity WHITE SPACE Suggested Strategies and Activities for Inquiry Learning LEAD Resources: Theory Household Electricity Activity Household Electricity Quiz Household Electricity Test bank Household Electricity

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Worksheet 19.2 (p.31-36)

How to wire a three-pin plug: http://www.youtu be.com/watch? v=JcCldfHX8r4 &feature=fvsr

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TERM 3: Weeks 7- 8 COMMON TEST (3 periods)

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Chapter 27: Reproduction in Human Beings Term 3 Week 9-10 (10 periods)
Learning Outcomes 27.1 Recognise that in sexual reproduction a new individual is formed through the union of an egg and sperm Identify some of the physical changes that occur during puberty 171-172 27.3 Describe briefly the structures of the male reproductive system and their functions 173-174 27.4 27.5 Describe briefly the structures of the female reproductive system and their functions. Describe briefly the stages in the menstrual cycle Describe briefly the process of fertilization Recognise that genetic information can be passed down to the offspring via the reproductive cells Go through common test Activity 27.2 2 Activity 27.1 2 Textbook (page) 169-170 170-171 27.2 Workbook Worksheet 27.1 Practicals No of Periods 1 IT Asknlearn: Sexual reproduction in human beings WHITE SPACE Suggested Strategies and Activities SAIL: MORE BABIES

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Chapter 28: Birth Control and Sexually Transmitted Infections Term 4 Week 1 (5 periods)
Learning Outcomes 28.1 Describe briefly different temporary and permanent methods of birth control Evaluate the consequences and issues relating to abortion Evaluate the consequences and issues relating to abortion State the harmful consequences of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) Describe the signs and symptoms of common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) Textbook (page) 189 - 193 Workbook Worksheet 28.1 Practicals Activity 28.1 No of Periods 1 IT Asknlearn: Issues on sex WHITE SPACE Suggested Strategies and Activities

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Week 2-3 - Revision for End Of Year Exam Week 4 5: End of Year Exam Week 6-7 In house Workshop Microbiology for 2 Express and Food Trail for 2Normal (Academic)

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Useful resources for lower secondary science www.sunflowerlearning.com animations, with worksheets and quizzes based on those animations www.asknlearn.com - videos and animations www.Edumall.sg Sciberdiver list of links to resources Sciences (Teaching and Learning Guide) activity worksheets

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