The strands of the curriculum present the science topics that children will explore. Content in science for third and fourth classes is presented in four strands:
- Living things, which is concerned with the childÕs developing knowledge of people, animals and plants, their life processes and their interrelationships
- Energy and forces, which describes the different forms of energy such as light, sound and heat and the exploration of different forces that the children encounter through the investigation of different materials and through designing and making activities
- Materials, which involves the exploration of different everyday materials, their characteristics and the processes by which materials are changed
- Environmental awareness and care, which outlines how science and geography can foster the childÕs appreciation of environments and his/her responsibility for their conservation and enhancement.
Environmental awareness and care is a cross-curricular strand common to the science and geography curricula. The range of units within these strands provides considerable flexibility for schools and teachers in the selection of content.