Grade 5 Natural Sciences & Technology | IEB Pathway

Encourage discovery and practical problem-solving with Grade 5 Natural Sciences & Technology. Learners investigate plants, animals, materials, energy and Earth while developing their ability to test ideas and design solutions.

Help your child connect scientific ideas with everyday life through Aspire Online School’s Grade 5 Natural Sciences & Technology subject.

Building on Grade 4 foundations, learners investigate relationships in the natural world and explore how materials and systems serve different purposes. Activities encourage careful observation, fair comparisons and thoughtful design choices.

Learning areas include:

• Life and living: Investigate plant and animal skeletons, and explore how plants grow and reproduce.

• Structures: Examine supporting frameworks and design structures for a purpose.

• Matter and materials: Compare metals and non-metals, explore material processing and investigate the uses of processed materials.

• Energy and change: Explore fuels, electricity, stored energy and systems that produce movement.

• Planet Earth and beyond: Investigate soil, sedimentary rocks and fossils.

• Scientific and design skills: Make predictions, conduct investigations, interpret results and evaluate models or solutions.

Suitable for Grade 5 learners developing scientific understanding and technological skills within Aspire’s IEB pathway.