GRADE FIVE SCIENCE

Hello Boys and Girls of Grade Five, How have you been enjoying the past two terms in Grade Five? Welcome to the Grade Five articles prepared specially for you every Sunday. We will have fun learning Science. We will find out lots and lots of things through stories, poems, riddles, discussions, drawing, labelling, conducting experiments and many other interesting activities.

Let’s read this poem to help us think more about Science.

That’s Science When you ask…. Why are babies born so small, Where are their teeth and hair and all? What makes them want to suck their thumb Why can’t they walk, and jump and run? That’s science

When you see… That flowers don’t grow when it snows, That all kites need a wind that blows, Some birds are red, some blue , some brown, And a wheel, to roll must be round. That’s science.

When you wonder… Why are robins’ eggs so blue? Do people lay eggs as they do? If birds can fly and people can’t, Why can’t a dog or a cat, or ant? That’s science.

All the things you want to know About yourself and how you grow, About the world in which you live, What you think, and find, and give, That’s science. E. Smith

Did you enjoy that poem? It sets you thinking, doesn’t it? Science helps us to find out so many things. It involves searching, asking questions, exploring, observing, documenting, analyzing, measuring,… and we can go on and on. Science is indeed fun. It is Science and Technology that have been enabling all the latest developments that we see today including mobile phones, tablets, cures for illnesses and so on. In this modern day it is important to do Science to develop and be up-to-date. We can’t be left behind.

If we look at it more formally, we find that the study of Science attempts to give order to our world. It finds patterns that are related through the use of several skills and techniques and thought processes.