I N T E R N AT I O N A L

PRIMARY
SCIENCE Student’s Book 1

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 Contents
Topic 1 Plants 1
1.1 Is it alive? 2
1.2 Plants and animals are living things 4
1.3 Plants can grow and move 6
1.4 Things that have never been alive 8
1.5 Plant and animal homes 10
1.6 Different environments 12
1.7 Exploring local environments 14
1.8 Parts of a plant 16
1.9 What do plants need to grow? 18
1.10 Seeds grow into plants 20
1.11 From seeds to plants 22
Looking back Topic 1 24
Topic 2 Humans and animals 25
2.1 We are similar 26
2.2 We are different 28
2.3 Parts of the body 30
2.4 Healthy and unhealthy foods 32
2.5 Eating well 34
2.6 Clean water is important 36
2.7 Our senses 38
2.8 Using our senses 40
2.9 Animal senses 42
2.10 Babies and adults 44
Looking back Topic 2 46

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 Topic 3 Material properties 47
3.1 Exploring materials 48
3.2 Properties of materials 50
3.3 More properties 52
3.4 What material is it? 54
3.5 More materials 56
3.6 Sorting materials 58
3.7 Making smaller groups 60
Looking back Topic 3 62
Topic 4 Forces 63
4.1 Movement 64
4.2 Pushing and pulling 66
4.3 Pushes and pulls 68
4.4 Faster or slower? 70
4.5 Changing direction 72
Looking back Topic 4 74
Topic 5 Sound 75
5.1 Listen carefully 76
5.2 What made that sound? 78
5.3 Hearing sounds 80
5.4 Our sense of hearing 82
5.5 Loud and soft sounds 84
5.6 Sound and distance 86
Looking back Topic 5 88
Glossary 89

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 Topic 1 Plants
In this topic you will learn that plants and animals
are living things. You will also learn that there are
living things and things which have never been
alive. You will explore how plants and animals live
in different environments. You will learn the main
parts of a plant and about the things that plants
need to grow. Lastly, you will investigate and
learn how seeds grow into plants.

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 Key words
• living
1.1 Is it alive? • non-living
Everything in the world around us is
either living or non-living.
1 What can you see in the picture?
2 Which things are living?
3 Which things are non-living?

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4 Which of these things are living?

Activities
5 Which are non-living?

1 Make a poster
to show living
and non-living
things.

2 Go on a walk
around your school.
Make two lists to
show how many
living and how
many non-living
things you can see.

3 Name some
living and some
non-living things.
Choose one
living thing and
describe it to
your partner.

I have learned
● Everything is either
living or non-living.

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 Key words
• plant
1.2 Plants and animals • animal
are living things • alive
There are many different types of living things.
We can sort all living things into groups. The two
main groups are plants and animals. If something
is alive, it is a plant or an animal.
1 Which things in the picture are living?

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2 Which things in the picture are non-living?

3 Sort the living things into plants and animals.
4 Count how many different types of plants you can see.
5 Say how the plants are different from each other.
Say how they are the same.

Activities

1 Name some living things and ask

your partner to say if they are
plants or animals.

2 Look at the list of living things that

you found around your school last
lesson. Label each thing plant or
animal. Can you name some of the
plants and animals?

3 Draw or write about one plant and

one animal that you know. Describe
each one. Say how they are the
same and how they are different.

I have learned
● Plants and animals are living things.
● If something is alive, it is a plant or
an animal.

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 Key words
• grow
1.3 Plants can grow • move
and move
Plants are living things.
Plants need water and light to grow and be healthy.
Non-living things do not need water or light.
1 Look at the picture. Where can you see some plants?
2 Are the plants in the pots living? Why do you think this?

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3 Look at the pictures. Will the

pink flower grow if you Activities
water it?
1 Describe how a plant
changes as it grows.

2 Listen to a story
about Elham and
a bean plant.
What happened?
What does this
tell you about
the plant?

3 Your teacher planted

4 What do you think will happen some seeds and
if you do not water the some stones in
purple plant? separate pots.
Predict what has
happened.
Look at the pots
and draw a picture.
Describe what
happened and why.

I have learned
● Plants need water
and light to grow and
When a plant grows it moves. be healthy.
Look at this picture of some ● Plants grow and move
young plants. They are growing towards the light.
and moving towards the light.

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 Key words
• non-living
1.4 Things that have never • alive
been alive • living

Some non-living things were once alive.

These things come from plants and animals.
Wood comes from trees. We use wood for many things.
Trees are living but wood is non-living. When wood is cut
from a tree it stops growing, so it is no longer alive.
Some things have never been alive, such as water, stone,
metal and plastic.

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 Topic 1 Plants

1 How many non-living Activities

things can you find in
the picture?
2 Which non-living things 1 Look at some pictures in
were once alive? your Workbook (page 4).
Circle the things that have
3 Which non-living things never been alive.
have never been alive?
4 What does a tree do that
a table made from wood 2 Walk around your
does not do? classroom. Find some
non-living things that were
once alive and some
things that have never
been alive. Make a list.

3 Make an odd-one-out poster

of things that were once
alive and things that have
never been alive.
Can your classmates guess
the odd one out?

I have learned
● Some non-living things were
once alive.
● Some things have never
been alive.

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