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Primary Science
Year: 5
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| Strand 5: Earth and Beyond
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Substrand: "5.8 The earth’s revolution, rotations and seasons"
(20 periods)
Our earth is part of the solar system, with eight planets, and their moons. The passage of time is related to the movement of the earth around the sun, the rotation of the earth on its axis. The path of the earth around the sun is called its orbit. The earth takes 365 days to make one orbit around the sun. This is called a year. The tilting of the earth’s axis causes seasons as parts of the earth receive different amounts of sunlight at different times of the year. There are imaginary lines called the equator, tropics, lines of latitudes and lines of longitude that are used to locate places on the earth’s surface. The moon orbits the earth completing one orbit in 28 days. The phases of the moon result from the changing positions of the Moon in its orbit around earth.
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5.8.1 know that the solar system consists of our Sun, eight planets, and the moons of some planets (k)
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5.8.1.1 use a simple model to show the earth’s orbit around the sun and time it takes to complete a revolution
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5.8.2 understand that each planet moves around the Sun in a path called the orbit (u)
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5.8.2.1 use the model to show how the tilting and positional changes of the earth causes season differences
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5.8.3 know that it takes one year, (365 days) for the earth to orbit around the sun (k)
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5.8.3.1 demonstrate how the earth orbits around the sun
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5.8.4 understand that the tilting of the earth on its axis causes the seasons in one year, as the earth moves in its orbit (u)
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5.8.4.1 demonstrate the tilting and spin of the earth as it rotates around the sun and state characteristics of the seasons in relation to the earth’s position in its orbit
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5.8.5 know that the imaginary lines on the earth’s surface are a way of locating places and identifying regions with similar climatic conditions (k)
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5.8.5.1 identify the imaginary lines on the earth’s surface
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5.8.6 understand that the Moon’s orbit around the earth takes 28 days (u)
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5.8.6.1 make a model to illustrate how the movement of the moon in its orbit round Earth causes us to see the changing shape of the Moon
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