SCIENCE UPSR-2010

Paper 018
1 HOUR 15 MINUTE
[BILINGUAL / DWI BAHASA]

SECTION

QUESTION

MARK

1 - 30

60

1
2
B

40

4
5
TOTAL MARKS

100

DOES NOT COVER YEAR 4 ND 5

LACK OF SCIENCE KNOWLEDGE

DONT UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION
LACK OF SCIENCE TERMINOLOGY

POOR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE

YEAR 4, 5 AND 6 - 503 VOCAB

CANT IDENTIFY THE KEY WORD

CANT UNDERSTAND THE KEY
QUESTION
CANT MEMORISE KEY ANSWER
CANT DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN
OBSERVATION AND TREND
NO PARAMETER FOR WTC, WTM AND
WKTS
CANT MAKE PREDICTION EXACTLY
CANT TRANSFER STATEMENT TO
TABLE

STATEMENT

DIAGRAM

SECTION B

GRAPH

TABLE

KEY WORD

OBSERVATION
INFERENCE
WHAT TO CHANGE
WHAT TO OBSERVE
WHAT KEEP THE SAME
AIM / PURPOSE
RELATIONSHIP / CONCLUSION
TREND / PATTERN
PREDICTION

OBSERVATION
State what you see in the picture, table, graph
What can you say
What can you observe

INFERENCE
Explain your observation.
Give reason based on your observation.

Diagram shows a flowering plant in a pot. After 4 days the

condition of the plant looks like as follow.

a) Write one observation after 4 days.

The plant wilted

b) Based on the observation, give one reason.

Because no water / sunlight

Number of
elephant

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

a) What can you observe?

The number of elephant decreased
b) What can you infer?
Because of illegal hunting.

Years

ERVATION AND INFERENCE

River A

River B

Bigger size fish

Smaller size fish

OBSERVATION

Size of the fish in river A is bigger than river B

INFERENCE

Because river A has no pollution compare to river B

Because fish in river A got enough food than river B

CONTROLLING VARIABLES
The things you select in a fair test / experiment
eg.
What to change?
What to measure?
What keep the same?

Answer Key
Parameter
Size of the
Amount of
Presence of
Type of

object
ice-cube
water
sunlight
plant

Parameter

Objects

Volume of

water

Size of

sponge

Number of

brick

Distance of

toy car

Temperature of water
Type of

soil
Except:

Time, Day, Week, Month and Year

1.

2.

3.

NUMBER OF BRICKS

DISTANCE TRAVEL BY TOY CAR / cm

100

200

300

WHAT TO CHANGE?

WHAT TO OBSERVE?

WHAT KEEP THE SAME?

NUMBER OF BRICKS

DISTANCE TRAVEL BY TOY CAR

SIZE OF BRICKS / SIZE OF PLANK /

TYPE OF TOY CAR

PREDICTION
Using the data / from past experience
State what will happen next

Answer Key
Study the trend / pattern changes
Predict the number
eg 75oC / 10 g / 6cm
Predict the situation
eg It will stay healthy
It will be extinct

Predict the number

Time / minute

10

12

Water temperature oC

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

a. Predict the water temperature at the 9 minute.

75 o c

80 70 = 10
10 2 = 5
70 + 5 = 75
or
80 - 5 = 75

Number of
elephant

Predict the situation

2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Years

Based on the trend, predict the number of elephant for 2007

The elephant will extinct.

INTERPRETING DATA
Write the aim / purpose of investigation
State the trend of change in the data
State the relationship between the variables
State the conclusion for the experiment

Question Key
What is the aim / purpose of the investigation?
Based on the .. state the trend in the
What is the relationship between..
What conclusion can be made from this investigation?

i. Aim / purpose
To find out the relationship between {what to change} and
{ what to measure}
ii. Trend
Increase : From small getting bigger or larger
From lower became higher
Decrease: From bigger/larger getting smaller
From higher getting lower
Did not change / unchanged
iii. Relationship
As { what to change} increase / decrease, the
{what to measure} increase/ decrease
iv. Conclusion
As { what to change} increase / decrease, the
{what to measure} increase/ decrease
Science concept

General statement :

Plant needs water to stay alive

Light can be reflected

As the WTC

increase / decrease

the WTM

WTC
The bigger the wooden block

WTM
the longer the rubber band
WTM

WTC
The wider the base area

the longer the time taken to fall

WTM

WTC
As the number of marbles
increase

increase / decrease

increase

the level of water

Relationshi
p
Week

Number of
frogs

20

30

40

50

Number of
snakes

10

15

20

What is the relationship between the number of frogs and

snakes ?
As the number of frogs increase, the number of snake
increase.

Relationshi
p

WTO

WTC

The bigger the wooden block

Rubber band

the longer the rubber band

Wooden block

Conclusion

Number of
marbles

Level of water / ml

12
14

increase

increase

16
18

When the number of marbles

increase

the level of water

increase

To find out the relationship between

WTC

and

WTM

To investigate the relationship between

WTC

and

WTM

To study the relationship between

WTC

and

WTM

To show the relationship between

and

the level of water

the number of marbles

Aim / purpose

Battery

Switch
Bulb

Number of
battery

Brightness of bulb

Dim

Bright

Brighter

State the aim of the investigation.

To find out the relationship between number of batteries and the
brightness of the bulb.

Aim / purpose

3cm
6cm
9cm
12cm

The length of
string

3cm

6cm

9cm

12cm

The number of
swing(1min)

10

What is the aim of the investigation ?

To investigate the relationship between the length of
string and the number of swing.

Aim / purpose

What do you want to know?

Plant needs water to stay alive

Trend

Number of
tigers

2000

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

Years

a. What is the trend in the number of tigers from 2000 to 2005?

Decreasing

Pattern
Time

Length of the shadows

(cm)

12.00am

1:00 pm

20

2:00 pm

40

3:00 pm

60

4:00 pm

80

5.00 pm

100

a. What is the trend for the length of the shadows from 12:00 noon
to 5:00 pm?

Increasing

Relationshi
p
Fertilizer
(gm)

Height of
plants (cm)

1.0

1.5

2.0

What is the relationship between the amount of fertilizer and

the height of plants ?

When / If / As the amount of fertilizer increase, the height of the

plant increase.

Relationshi
p
Week

Number of
frogs

20

30

40

50

Number of
snakes

10

15

20

What is the relationship between the number of frogs and

snakes ?
When the number of frog increase, the number of snake
Increase.

Conclusion

What conclusion can be made from this investigation

Plants need water to stay alive

Conclusion

Time

( min)

Water temperature

10

12

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

a. What is the conclusion of the experiment?

As the time to heat the water increase, the water
temperature increase

Conclusion

What can you say about this investigation?

Plants need bigger space to grow well

Conclusion

What can you say about this experiment?

Light travels in straight line

TECHNIQUE FOR ANSWERING

STRUCTURED QUESTIONS
SPS
Steps
1. Read the information given
Study the diagram / graph / table of result
U

2. Look for the 2 main variables

a. What is changed (W2C)
b. What is measured ( W2M)
3. Study the trend / pattern changed
Decrease
Increase
No change
4. Use the key words to answer each question
Aim
Relationship
Conclusion

Distance of the torch

from the ball (cm)

Size of the shadow (cm)

30

50

60

30

90

10

What is
changed

What is
measured

a) In the investigation :
i. what is changed?

Distance of the torch from the ball

......................................................................

ii. what to measured?

The size of the shadow

......................................................................

b) What is the aim of the investigation ?

the distance of the torch from the ball
To find out the relationship between .............................................................
size of the shadow
and the .............................................................................

Distance of the torch

from the ball (cm)

Size of the shadow (cm)

50

30

10

increase

decrease

b) State the relationship between the variables

distance of the torch from the ball increase
As the ....................................................................................,
the
size of the shadow decrease
.............................................................................................................
c) What conclusion can be made from the investigation?
distance of the torch from the ball increase
When the .....................................................................................,
the
size of the shadow decrease
............................................................................................................
.

What is
changed

Number of batteries
Brightness of the bulbs

dim

bright

brightest

What is
measured
a) In the investigation :
i. what is changed?

number of batteries
.....................................................

ii. What is measured?

brightness of the bulbs

.....................................................

b) What is the aim of the investigation ?

number of batteries
To find out the relationship between .......................................and
brightness of the bulbs
.........................................................................................................

What is
changed

Number of batteries
Brightness of the bulbs
What is
measured

increase

dim

bright

brightest

increase

b) State the relationship between the variables

number of bulb increase
of the bulbs increase
As the .............................................. the brightness
.......................................

c) What conclusion can be made from the investigation?

of bulb increase the brightness
of the bulbs increase
As the number
........................................
.........................................

+3

No. of marbles

Length of the spring (cm)

3
5
8

+3

+3

12

12

D. Predict the length of the spring if 12 marbles are used in this

investigation
12 cm
.............................................................................................

+2
+3
+4

grain of sugar

9.00 am

9.05 am

9.10 am

Some grain of sugar is left near the ant trail in the classroom at 9.00
The number of ant is recorded as above
a. What is the aim of the investigation?
To find out the relationship between time and
the number of ant
b. State the information gathered in the investigation
Time
Number of ant

c. What is the relationship the information given in (b)

When the time increase the number of ant coming also increase
d. Predict the number of ant coming at 9.15 am
9

3. Identify ( W2C), ( W2M ) from the

graph.
changes
( W2M )

(W2C )

(W2C )

W2M

Number of
tigers

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004 2005

Years

The graph above shows the number of tigers in the jungle

a) State two information gathered in the investigation?
Year
Number of tiger
b) State the relationship between the two information given in (a)
As the year increase the number of tiger decrease

c) What is the trend of change in the number of tiger from 2000 to 2005?
Decreasing
d) State your inference (reason) for answer in ( c )
The forest has been cut down // Illegal hunting / not enough food

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