Grade 5-6:
Science and Technology (8 credits)
  Compulsory Topics:  
The Living World
The Material World
The Earth and Space

MATTER
– Characteristics of living things:
• metabolism of plants and animals (e.g. nutrition, respiration,
growth, death)
• reproduction of plants and animals
• Organization of living things:
• human reproductive system
• Transformations of living things
• metamorphoses (e.g. butterfly, frog)
• human growth and development
• evolution of life forms

ENERGY
– Sources of energy for living things:
• photosynthesis in plants (e.g. need for water and carbon dioxide)
• agricultural and food technologies (e.g. crossbreeding of plants
and their propagation by cuttings, selection and breeding of
animals, food production, pasteurization)
• Transformation of energy in living things:
• ecological pyramids

FORCES AND MOTION
– Motion in plants (e.g. phototropism, hydrotropism, geotropism)

SYSTEMS AND INTERACTION
– Interaction between living organisms and their environment
• adaptation (e.g. mimicry)
• Interaction between humans and their environment
• Environmental technologies (e.g. recycling, composting)

TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION
• Use of simple observational instruments (e.g. magnifying glass, binoculars, microscope)
• Use of simple measuring instruments (e.g. rulers, dropper,
balance, thermometer)
• Design and manufacture of environments (e.g. aquarium,
terrarium, incubator, greenhouse)

APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE
• Terminology related to an understanding of living things
• Conventions (e.g. plant and animal identification key)
• Graphs (e.g. pictograph, histogram)
• Tables (e.g. plant and animal classification tables)
• Drawings, sketches


 MATTER
– Properties and characteristics of matter in different states (solid, liquid, gas):
• relative density and buoyancy
• other physical properties (e.g. elasticity, hardness, permeability and impermeability, solubility)
– Changes in matter
• chemical changes (e.g. simple chemical reactions: rust, combustion, acid-base)
• manufacturing household products (e.g. soap, paper, cement)

ENERGY
– Forms of energy:
• sources of energy (e.g. moving water, chemical reaction in a battery, sunlight)
• Transmission of energy:
• thermal conductivity (e.g. conductors and insulators)
• electrical conductivity (e.g. conductors and insulators)
• simple electric circuits
• light radiation (e.g. reflection, refraction)
– Transformation of energy:
• consumption and conservation of energy by human beings
(e.g. electric meter, insulation)
• transformations of energy from one form to another
(e.g. transformation by machines)

FORCES AND MOTION
– Effect of gravitational attraction on an object
(e.g. free fall, pendulum)
• Effect of electromagnetic attraction (e.g. magnet, electromagnet)
• Pressure (e.g. pressure in a balloon, airplane wing)
• Combined effects of several forces on an object
(e.g. reinforcement, opposition)

SYSTEMS AND INTERACTION
– Other machines (e.g. cart, waterwheel, windmill)
• How manufactured objects work (e.g. materials, shapes, functions)
• Servomechanism and robots
• Transportation technology (e.g. car, airplane, boat)
• Electron technology (e.g. telephone, radio, sound recording, television, transistor, microprocessor, computer)

TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION
– Manufacturing (e.g. reading plans, marking out, cutting, assembling, finishing)
• Use of simple measuring instruments (e.g. rulers, dropper, balance, thermometer)
• Use of simple machines
• Use of tools (e.g. pliers, screwdriver, hammer, wrench, simple template)
• Design and manufacture of instruments, tools, machines, structures (e.g. bridges, towers), devices (e.g. water filtration device), models (e.g. glider) and simple circuits

APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE
• Terminology related to an understanding of the material world
- Conventions and types of representations specific to the concepts studied
• Symbols (H2O)
• Graphs (e.g. pictograph, histogram)
• Tables
• Drawings, sketches
• Norms and standardization		 MATTER
• Properties and characteristics of matter on Earth
• classification of rocks and minerals
• Organization of matter:
• structure of the Earth (e.g. continents, oceans, ice caps,
mountains, volcanoes)
• Transformation of matter
• natural phenomena (e.g. erosion, lightning)  

ENERGY
– Sources of energy:
• fossil fuel-based energy
• Transmission of energy (e.g. radiation)
• Transformation of energy:
• nonrenewable forms of energy

FORCES AND MOTION
• The tides

SYSTEMS AND INTERACTION
• Solar system
• The seasons
• The stars and the galaxies (e.g. constellations)
• Meteorological systems (e.g. clouds, precipitation, storms)
and climates
• Technologies related to the Earth, the atmosphere and
outer space (e.g. seismograph, prospection, weather forecasting,
satellites, space station)

TECHNIQUES AND INSTRUMENTATION
• Use of simple observational instruments (e.g. binoculars, telescope)
• Use of simple measuring instruments (e.g. rulers, balance,
thermometer, weather vane, barometer, anemometer, hygrometer)
• Design and manufacture of measuring instruments and prototypes

APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE
• Terminology related to an understanding of the Earth and the universe
• Conventions and types of representations (e.g. globe, constellations)
• Drawing, sketches

 
Source: Quebec Department of Education
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