SCiE N C E

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Hazel T. Victoria  Fatmawaty Munte

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First published: 2022
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Science Champion – Student Book 1
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Preface
is a science learning book specially designed to help pupils acquire
scientific knowledge and understanding, develop skills, values, and attitudes. The
scope of topics discussed at each level is arranged according to the science syllabus
at the elementary level.
uses a very systematic learning method through the Inquiry approach
that has been tested and proven to be an effective approach at improving student’s
competences in mastering science. The inquiry approach is used by Singapore to
improve students’ competences which is proven through their consistency as the
top rank at PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) and TIMSS (Trends
in Mathematics & Science Studies). The development of material for each topic is
arranged in stages, starting from the easiest material to more complex material
(spiral progression).
gives special emphasis on developing conceptual understanding and
critical thinking skills to build a firm foundation in science. After the introduction of
new concepts, students are invited to apply what they have learned in collaborative
science activities. This book is equipped with a number of activities that will stimulate
students’ interest in the topic and consolidate their knowledge and understanding.
makes science learning meaningful and fosters a love of science learning
in children with the use of colorful and engaging visuals as well as age-appropriate
language.
Be a science champion!
 Chapter 3 Animals Around Us

Table of Contents 78 Lesson 1 Animals in Different Places

89 Lesson 2 Needs of Animals

99 Linking Together
Chapter 1 Your Body
100 Chapter Test
2 Lesson 1 The Parts of Your Body
102 Making Connections
11 Lesson 2 Your Eyes

19 Lesson 3 Your Nose Chapter 4 Plants Around Us

26 Lesson 4 Your Ears 104 Lesson 1 Parts of a Plant
33 Lesson 5 Your Tongue 119 Lesson 2 Needs of a Plant
41 Lesson 6 Your Skin 127 Lesson 3 Comparing Plants
49 Linking Together 135 Linking Together
50 Chapter Test 136 Chapter Test
52 Making Connections 138 Making Connections

Chapter 5 Objects Around Us

Chapter 2 Living Things and Nonliving Things
140 Lesson 1 Grouping Objects Together
54 Lesson 1 Things Around Us
149 Lesson 2 Comparing Objects
61 Lesson 2 Characteristics of Living Things
and Nonliving Things 155 Lesson 3 Objects Made from Living Things

73 Linking Together 165 Lesson 4 Objects Made from Nonliving Things

74 Chapter Test 171 Linking Together

172 Chapter Test

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76 Making Connections
174 Making Connections
Chapter 6 Objects in the Sky
CHAPTER 2
176 Lesson 1 The Sky in the Day

Living Things and

184 Lesson 2 The Sky at Night

189 Linking Together

Nonliving Things
190 Chapter Test

192 Making Connections

Chapter 7 Force and Motion There are many things around you. Some
194 Lesson 1 Things are Moving of them are alive. Others are not alive. How
do you group the things that are alive? How
201 Lesson 2 What is Force?
about the things that are not alive?
207 Linking Together

208 Chapter Test

210 Making Connections

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Living Things

1
People, animals, and plants are alive. They are called living things.

Around Us
Lesson

Learning Goal:
Group things into Everywhere you go, you see things that
living things and
are alive and things that are not alive.
nonliving things

People are living things. Science Bank

Explore!
Name the things that you see
in the park. Which of these
are alive? Which are not alive?

Corals are found in water.

Animals are living things.
They look like plants, but
they are actually animals.
They are alive and they
serve as home to many
small fish.

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Plants are living things.

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Nonliving Things Science at Work
Soil, air, water, and toys are not alive. They are called nonliving things.

Living Things and Nonliving Things

in Different Places

What You Need to Do

Soil is a nonliving thing.
1. Look around the classroom. Find two living things and two
nonliving things.
2. Go to the school garden. Find two living things and two nonliving
things.
Air is a nonliving thing. 3. List them in the table below.

Place Living Things Nonliving Things

1 ______________ 1 ______________
Classroom
2 ______________ 2 ______________

1 ______________ 1 ______________
Garden
2 ______________ 2 ______________

Water is a nonliving thing. Toys are nonliving things.

Question
Do you agree that living things and nonliving things are found in
all places?

Yes No

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 Looking Over Enhance Your Skills
• Living things and nonliving things are everywhere.
• People, animals, and plants are living things. A. Color the things that are alive.

people animals plants

• Soil, water, air, and toys are nonliving things.

soil water

air toys

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 B. Color the things that are not alive.
Characteristics of
Lesson
2 Living Things and
Learning Goal:
Give the
Nonliving Things
characteristics of
living things
The boy can move just like the robot. On the
other hand, the robot cannot eat, breathe, and
grow.

Explore!
Everyday Science
Look at the boy and the robot in the
Is a teddy bear a living thing or a nonliving thing?
picture. What makes each of them
Why do you think so?

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a living thing or a nonliving thing?

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Characteristics of Living Things Living things move
Living things breathe air People and animals move from one place to another. They walk, run, or hop.

Living things breathe air. People, animals, and Science Bank

plants need air to stay alive.

Rafflesia Arnoldii is the

largest flower in the A child walks. A kangaroo hops.
world. When it blooms,
the flower will smell bad
because it is also called
corpse flower.

Living things grow

An ostrich runs.
All living things grow. People, animals, and plants
grow. When they grow, changes in their bodies Some animals crawl, climb, or fly.
happen.
Explore!
Can you tell
the changes
that happen in
the pictures?

A baby grows into a child. A kitten grows into a cat. A snail crawls. A tarsier climbs. A bird flies.

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Some animals swim. Plants move too.
Some plants move upward or sideward.

Science Bank

A dolphin swims. A clownfish swims. Some plants are

sensitive to touch. The
mimosa plant closes its
leaves when touched.
Some plants crawl on the ground as they grow.

Some plants climb walls.

A shark swims.

A whale swims. A turtle swims.

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Characteristics of Nonliving Things Needs of Living Things
Nonliving things do not eat, breathe, grow, and move. What can you say about the living things in the picture? Living things have
needs to grow and to stay alive.

The girl drinks milk.

Robots can move. But robots cannot eat, Toys cannot move on their own. They
breathe, and grow. Robots are nonliving cannot eat, breathe, and grow. Toys are
things. nonliving things.

Air does not eat, breathe, and grow. Air is a Water does not eat, breathe, and grow.
nonliving thing. Water is a nonliving thing.

The cat eats its food.

Sunlight does not eat, breathe, and grow. Soil does not eat, breathe, and grow. Soil

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Sunlight is a nonliving thing. is a nonliving thing.

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 Living things need food and water Science at Work
Science Bank Living things need food and water to grow and to
stay alive.
A Plant is a Living Thing
Food and water give energy to people and animals.
Energy allows people to do many activities.
What You Need

Foods rich in
• onion • glass
carbohydrates give • 3 toothpicks • water
energy to people
and animals. Some
of those foods are What You Need to Do
rice, bread, and
1. Using the toothpicks as support, place the onion on the rim of
potatoes.
a glass.
The boy eats food. The cat drinks water.
2. Pour water into the glass until it reaches the bottom of the
onion.
Plants also need food and water. They need
sunlight, air, and water to make their own food. 3. Observe the onion for five days.
They also need soil. They get nutrients from the soil.
Questions
sunlight
Draw a in the box of your answer to each question below.
Explore!
1. What happened to the onion after five days?
What will
happen if you air Roots appeared at the bottom of the onion.
do not eat food Green leaves appeared at the upper part of the onion.
and drink water?
2. What characteristics of living things have you observed?
The onion absorbed water and made its own food.
The onion moved.
The onion grew.

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water

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 Looking Over Enhance Your Skills

• Living things need food and water.

A. Draw a in the box if the sentence is correct.
• Living things breathe air.
Draw a if it is incorrect.
• Living things grow.
• Living things move.

1. Plants make their own food.

2. Animals eat food to get energy.

people animals
3. Plants move upward or sideward when they
grow.

4. Living things like animals and people grow.

plants
5. People and animals breathe air.

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 B. Circle all things that eat, breathe, grow, and move.
Linking Together

Things
around us

Alive Not alive

Living things Nonliving things

They eat, breathe, They do not eat, breathe,

grow, and move. grow, or move.

People, animals,
Soil, air, water, and toys
and plants

Everyday Science
Is a rock a living thing or a nonliving thing? Why do you
think so?

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 Chapter Test
6. A cat runs toward its owner. What characteristic of living things
Circle the letter of each correct answer. does it show?
1. Which of the following is a living thing? a. Living things eat.
b. Living things grow.

a. b. c. c. Living things move.

7. Is an airplane a living thing?

2. Which of the following is a nonliving thing? a. Yes, because it moves.

a.
3. Which of these things breathe air?
a.
4. Which of the following shows that a living thing moves?
a. A bird flies.
b. A boy walks to school.
c. All of the above.
b. Yes, because it needs air.
c. No, because it does not eat.
b. c.
8. What do you think would happen to an insect inside a closed jar?
a. It would die.
b. It would escape.
c. It would need water to grow.
b. c. 9. Which of the following describes a rock?
a. It breathes air.
b. It does not move.
c. It needs water to grow.
10. Which thing can grow and move?

5. Which of the following needs sunlight to make its own food? a. b. c.

a. b. c.

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 Making Connections

Your body is mostly

made up of water. This is why you
need to drink eight to
ten glasses of water daily.

Animals need water too,

in order to stay alive.

They drink water in different ways.

Some get water from the food they
eat. Others take in water
through their skin.

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