Seychelles Primary 1 Curriculum - Science

Introduction

The Seychelles Primary 1 Science curriculum aims to foster curiosity about the natural world, provide insights into scientific inquiry, and highlight the relevance of science in daily life.

Primary 1 Learning Goals

By the end of Primary 1, students should be able to:

• Knowledge:
• Demonstrate basic knowledge and understanding of the immediate natural environment, including:
• Characteristics of living and non-living things.
• Basic human body systems (external body parts, senses).
• Simple physical processes (waves, light, sound).
• Observing:
• Use their senses to identify elements related to living/non-living things, their habitats, and basic physical processes in the environment.
• Communicating:
• Use drawings and short sentences, both orally and in writing, to record information about observed objects (label, describe, compare) using simple terms like light/heavy, lighter/heavier than, long/short, big/small.
• Measuring:
• Measure, compare, estimate, record, and order the lengths and capacities of observed objects using non-standard units (e.g., hand span, footstep for length; same-sized mugs, bottles, spoons for capacity).
• Compare objects by size.
• Predicting:
• Predict possible outcomes of actions and events (e.g., whether objects will float, which containers hold more, which objects produce sound).
• Classifying:
• Match objects based on characteristics like color, shape, size, quantity.
• Experimenting:
• Ask questions like how, why, what, where, when, and "what will happen if?" during practical activities.