ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE

GRADE 4 TERM 3
AIMS

To help pupils
1. acquire and develop manipulative and communication skills in science
2. develop an awareness of usefulness of science in the environment.
3. develop an appreciation of managed environment.
4. develop creativity and inventiveness in scientific learning and interaction with the environment.
5. develop a positive attitude towards their environment.
Week Topic / Content Objectives S.O.M Media Activities

1 Weather Identify and describe four E /S syllabus Charts 1. Children describe the weather
Key Concept seasons of Zimbabwe C/board 2. Children prepare statements about the weather this
There are four illustratio season
seasons in 2m Sub – Objectives ns 3. Groups give a report back. 4. Pupils read pupils book
Sub Concept -Describe the weather this Flash 5. Class discussion to help describe weather this season
The weather this season cards 6. Children write sentences about the weather individually.
season 7. Children have a class discussion.
-Discussion Key Concept
-Describing -describe the characteristics 1. Revise different types of weather.
-Answering of each of the four seasons. 2. Children name the four seasons
3. Discuss the characteristics of each season using the
Sub _Concept Sub Objectives weather chart.
Rainfall at certain -describe the rainy season 4. In groups children answer questions about the seasons.
time 5. Groups report back.
Skills 6. Talk about times of the year when rain falls.
Describing 7. Pupils reads pupils book p. 61.
Discussing 8. Individually pupils draw a picture illustrating the rain
season.
9. Class discussion.

2 Weather -Find out how to measure E/S Syllabus Charts 1. Revise the four season. 2. Talk about the rain season 3.
Rainfall can be rainfall page 17 Pupils describe activities in the rainy season 4.
measured and -measure rainfall Water Demonstrate with a rain tin how to measure rain. 5. Pupils
recorded -found out how to record the practise in groups 6. Groups report back their findings
How can rainfall amount of rain that falls 7. Discuss pictures in pupils book p. 61. 8. Individually
be recorded -record the amount of rainfall children illustrate how rain can be formed 9. Class
Skills at a given place discussion
-discussing
-experimenting 1. Revise how rainfall can be measured 2. Demonstrate
how to measure rainfall 3. Demonstrate how to record
rainfall. 4. Pupils practise measuring and recording rainfall
5. Children read pupils book p.62 6. Children answer
questions about rainfall at Sekai and 2 Munya schools 7.
Class discussion 8. Children completed sentences
individually.
3 Weather Key – Objective 1. Revise the recording of rainfall
The amount of rain -discuss that rainfall varies 2. Talk about how rainfall amount vary from place to place.
varied from place from place to place. 3. Help children identify towns in Zimbabwe on a map.
to place 4. Discuss a bar graph showing annual rainfall of the towns.
Skills – Identifying Sub – Objective 5. Children interpret the graph in groups.
-describing -describe and compare the 6. Group report back. 7. Children answer questions
-comparing rainfall amount of different individually.
cities
Sub-Concept 1. Revise the average annual rainfall of the towns in
Rainfall Key – Objective Zimbabwe. 2. Talk about rainfall distribution in all regions in
distribution in Zim -discuss the rainfall Zimbabwe. 3. In groups children answer questions 4.
skills distribution in Zimbabwe Discuss a bar graph showing annual rainfall of the towns.
-discussing 5. Children interpret the graph in groups 6. Individually
-describing Sub –Objective children answer questions from a map on rainfall
-answering -answer questions about distribution. 7. Children discussion as a class.
rainfall distribution in
Zimbabwe
4 Temperature Key 1. Talk about rainfall distribution.
varies and can be -Find out that temperature of 2. Let children describe the days temperature.
measured the air varies. 3. Discuss how the temperature of the air varies.
-demonstrate how to use a 4. Talk about how to use a thermometer.
How to use a thermometer to measure 5. Children observe and examine a thermometer.
thermometer temperature. 6. Class discussion. 7. Reading pupils book. P. 67
7. Children complete sentences individually.
Skills Key
-discussing -describe the average weekly 1. Revise the use of a thermometer to measure
-observing temperature of a given place. temperature.
-recording -calculate the average weekly 2. Talk about the thermometer and demonstrate it.
Average weekly temperature of a place. 3. Children read part 2 of the pupils book p. 68.
temperature 4. Class discussion. 5. In groups children answer
questions.
6. Group report back. 7. Children calculate the average
weekly temperature of the given.
8. Individual written work.

5 Weather Key-Objective 1. Revise how to calculate average weekly temperature.

Key -Find out the average 2. Talk about average temperature at different times of the
-Average temp of temperature at different times year.
 different times of of the year. 3. Read and discuss part 3 p. 58 of the pupils book.
the year. 4. Children answer questions from the tables in groups.
-Recording daily Sub-Objectives 5. Groups report back. 6. Class discussion.
temp different -to record the daily 7. Individual written work. 8. Revise temperatures at
times of the year. temperature at different times different times of the year.
Using graphs to of the year.
compare. -to compare temperature of 1. Revise temperatures at different times of the year.
temperatures different times of the year. 2. Discuss how to record temperatures.
Sub 3. In groups children interpret a given report.
-to use graphs 4. Groups report back.
-to compare temperatures 5. Class discussion.
6. Individually children represent given temperature
recordings on a graph.
7. Children answer questions.
6 Weather Key Concept 1. Revise temperature changes at different times of the
Annual -To find out what temperature year.
temperature vary vary from place to place. 2. Talk about how annual temperatures vary from place to
from place to -To calculate average annual place.
place temperature. 3. Discuss and demonstrate the calculation of the average
Average annual -answer revision questions annual temperatures for Bulawayo in 1990.
temperatures can based on the work covered. 4. In groups children calculate the average annual
be calculated temperatures of given towns.
5. Groups report back. 6. Discuss how to find annual
Test yourself temperature using a 10yr period.
7. Children complete sentences individually.

1. Revise work covered on rainfall and temperature.

2. Use maps to show rainfall and temperature distribution.
3. In groups children do work on cards.
4. Groups rotate activities until every group has done every
activity.
5. Groups report back.
6. Class discussion. 7. Children do a multiple choice
exercise. 8. Class discussion.

7 Material and -identify tools used to E/S page 75 1. Talk about different task that are carried out in the home.
technology different tasks. 2. Children identify tools used to do these tasks.
What are tools -say how different tools are Syllabus page 3. Children identify tools on a chart.
 used. 17 4. In groups children find out how these tools are used.
What are tools 5. Children complete given work cards.
Skills Key – Objective E/S Page 76 6. Group report back.
-identify the materials from 7. Individually children draw and label six tools of their own
tools choice. 8. Writing about tools.

1. Revise types of tools. 2. Children identify tools used to

do these tasks. 3. Children identify tools on a chart.
4. In groups children find out how these tools are used.
5. Children complete given work cards.
6. Group report back. 7. Class discussion on why tools are
what they are. Individually pupils write about what tool are
made of. 8. Class discussion.
8 Materials can be -will identify materials from Syllabus page 1. Revise properties of different materials. 2. In groups
compared which tools are made. 7 children compare two material on work cards.
Skils Sub-objective 3. Groups compare other materials.
-observing -compare the properties of E/S pupils 4. Discuss the properties of materials as a class.
-describing the materials from which tools book page 76 5. Individually pupils compare materials of their choice.
-comparing are made. 6. Class discussion.

1. Revise properties of different materials.

2. In groups children compare two materials on cards.
3. Groups report back.
4. Groups compare other materials.
5. Discuss the properties of materials as a class.
6. Individually pupils compare materials of their choice.
7. Class discussion.
9 Materials and -to identify tools that have Syllabus page 1. Revise names of modern tools.
technology been modified in the local 117 2. Talk about tool that were used in the past.
Some tools can be environment 3. Discuss and describe how tools were made and used.
modified 4. Reading pupils book p.77 – 79 in groups.
Skills Sub 5. Children draw and label tools used long ago.
-discussing -identify that were used in the 6. Children write about tools used in the past.
-describing pst.
-explaining 1. Revise names of tools used in the past.
2. Compare them with tools used nowadays.
3. In groups children suggest how the tools used long ago
could have been modified.
 4. Groups report back.
5. Class discussion to trace the history of tools.
6. Individually children answer questions about tools in the
past.
10 Some tool can be -describe how mining was Syllabus page 1. Identify tool sued long ago.
modified. done long ago. 17 2. Discuss mining nowadays.
-Miners long ago -discuss mining in the past. 3. Talk about mining long ago.
E/S pupils 4. Children read pupils book page 77 in groups.
Tools can be -to modify tools in the local book page 5. Children answer questions in groups.
modified environment to carry out 181 6. Children report back to class. 7. Class discussion
-Miners long ago specific task. 8. Completing sentences individually.
-Improving a tool -to suggest different tasks a
to do a better task tool e,g, a stick can carry out 1. Discuss ploughing. 2. Talk about how ploughing is done
depending on the these days.
modification . 3. In groups children answer questions and report back.
4. Class discussion on how a tool can be modified to carry
out a specific task.
5. Drawing and labelling tools.

11 Landforms and -to locate local landforms and 1. Discussing a grid. 2. Show how to locate a place on a
maps other features on a grid. grid. 3. In groups children locate specific places on a grid.
-Local landforms -to locate landforms and other 4. Groups report back their findings.
can be located on features on a map using a 5. Class discussion. 6. Help plot points given a grid
a map grid. reference. 7. Individual written work.

Finding Grid -to locate landforms and other 1. Revise how to locate places on a grid.
references features on a map using a 2. Discuss places on a grid on a chart.
Skills grid. 3. Discuss maps on page 85 as a class.
Discussing -to find grid references for 4. In groups children answer questions 1-7 page 87.
Locating places on a map. 5. Groups report back to class landforms ona map.
6. Class discussion .

12 Landforms and -plot landforms and other E/S pupils 1. Revise how local landforms can be located on a map.
maps features on a map, using a book page 88 2. Show how other landforms can be located on a map.
grid and their own symbols. 3. Pupils in groups practise locating other landforms on a
Landforms on a map.
map 4. Groups report back.
5. Class discussion.

1. Revise how local landforms can be located on a map.

2. Show how other landforms can be located on a map.
3. Pupils in groups practise locating other landforms on a
map.
4. Groups report back.
5. Class discussion.

1. Individually pupils locate landforms on a map.

2. Revise how to locate landform on a map.
3. In groups pupils practise making maps from a models.
4. Groups report back.
5. Individually pupils practise making maps from a model.
6. Class discussion.