Online Science Olympiad Classes for Grade 5
Syllabus
Animals
- Classification of animals and birds - vertebrate and invertebrate
- Food chains and web
- Habitat and adaptation
- Animals as producers, consumers, decomposers, scavengers
- Animals lay eggs or give birth to young ones
- Life cycle of an animal/ an insect/a bird
- Classification of different animals on the basis of
- Body covering: Scales, shell, feathers, fur and wool
- Feeding habits: Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores
- Organs aiding in breathing: Lungs, gills, body surface or moist skin, spiracles
- Methods of moving: Land animals, reptiles, insects, birds, aquatic animals, migration
Human body and Health
- Cells, tissues, organs and organ systems
- Explain to which system the organs belong to and the basic functioning of these systems in coordination with the other parts, like digestive, respiration, excretory and nervous system
- Organ system: Nervous system, skeletal system, muscular system, circulatory system, digestive system, breathing system, excretory system, reproductive system
- Types of muscles: Involuntary and voluntary muscles
- Skeletal system-bones
- Importance of bones, muscles and joints for the body
- Different types of joints
- Functions of bones, major bones of the body - arms, legs, chest bone, skull, jawbone, backbone
- Care of bones and joints, food items to make the bones strong
- Importance of good posture and exercise
- Circulatory System
- Organs/parts of the circulatory system, their structure, functions (heart, arteries, veins), functions of blood
- Process of circulation through pictures, visuals in simple terms (no technical knowledge to be given)
- Components of a balanced diet, importance of eating a balanced diet
- Junk food: meaning and examples; adverse effects of eating junk food
- Preservation of perishable and nonperishable food
- Ways to make diet healthier (e.g. sprouting, fermentation)
- Nutrients: Proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals
- Diseases related to food habits, life style (obesity, anaemia, diabetes, blood pressure); and symptoms of the diseases in simple terms
- Prevention of the diseases in non-technical terms
- Deficiency diseases - some common deficiency diseases and ways to prevent and treat them: Kwashiorkor, marasmus, night blindness, anaemia, rickets, scurvy, beriberi, goiter
- Communicable and non-communicable disease
- Type of germs, disease caused by them and mode their mode of transmission
- Meaning of food adulteration and examples of some common adulterants (awareness level only)
Plants
- Reproduction in plants: seed germination, grafting, shoots, bulbs, pollen, etc.
- Stem—its types, functions, uses and modifications
- Vascular plants
- Parts of a flower (male and female)
- Plants’ life cycle including pollination, fertilisation, seed production, seed dispersal and germination
- Other ways of reproduction in plants
- Vegetative reproduction-meaning
- Vegetative reproduction from stem cuttings (potatoes, onion, ginger), root (carrot), leaf (Bryophyllum)
- New plants from seeds
- Seed germination
- Dispersal of seeds: By wind, by water, by animals, by explosion
- Crops: food crops, fibre crops, oil-producing crops
- Getting good yields from crops
- Androecium and gynoecium
- Pollination
- Bisexual and monosexual flowers
- Process of pollination
- Some ways of pollination (self and cross pollination)
Water
- Substances which dissolves in water
- Impurities in water
- Removing insoluble impurities
- Sedimentation
- Decantation
- Filtration
- Removing soluble impurities
- Removing disease germs
- Treatment of town water supply: Sedimentation, filtration, chlorination
- Water pollution
Natural Resources and Calamities
- Natural and man-made resources
- The atmosphere: How does atmosphere protect us
- Composition of air
- Inhaled and exhaled air
- Properties of air
- Air occupies space
- Air has weight
- Air is needed for burning
- Air exerts pressure
- Uses of air pressure
- Air pollution
- Sources of fuels
- Need to save fuel
- Science and technology and its effect on human beings
- Natural calamities such as Forest Fire – its causes and effects
- Natural calamities: Floods, droughts and earthquakes
- Floods and cyclones
- Controlling floods
- Reducing damage due to the floods
- Droughts
- Reducing the effects of droughts
- Earthquakes
- What causes earthquakes?
- When there is an earthquake?
- Tsunami
- Things to do when faced with a natural calamity
Earth and Universe
- The Solar Family
- Sun and its planets as a family –galaxies, stars, comets, asteroids, meteoroids, satellites (natural and artificial)
- Latitude and longitude
- Imaginary lines around the earth
- The Earth and beyond
- how the sun appears to move during the day and how shadows change
- how the spin of the Earth leads to day and night
- Movement of the moon
- Phases of the moon
- Conditions on moon
- Exploration of the moon
- Eclipses
- Lunar eclipse
- Solar eclipse
Matter
- Solids: Properties of solids-definite shape, geometry. Give examples of sugar crystals
- Liquids: Properties of liquids-occupy space, flow from high level to low level, take the shape of the container. Separation of liquids from solids
- Gases: Properties of gases-no definite shape and volume
- Composition of gases in air; with experiment- land and sea breezes, monsoon breezes
- Role of ventilators in houses/halls, closed spaces - warm air lighter than fresh air
- Solute and solvent
Force, Work and Energy
- Need for machines. Types of simple machines used in day-to-day life (lever, screw, pulley, wheel and axle, pulley, screw, wedge)
- Need for levers
- Types of levers
- First class lever
- Second class lever
- Third class lever
- examples related to daily life
- Meaning of work, examples of work done/not done
- Definition of energy; energy is need for work
- Various kinds/forms of energy - light, heat, electricity, sound
- Renewable and nonrenewable sources of energy and examples of each kind
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