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Pearson
International
Primary
Science
Course Guide

Create enthusiastic and capable young

Full
scientists ready for Lower Secondary Pearson
and International GCSE Science. Edexcel
iPrimary
coverage!
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 Introducing
Pearson International
Primary Science
Designed for international
learners aged 5 to 11 years,
Pearson’s brand-new
interactive International
Primary Science programme
is fully matched to the
Pearson Edexcel iPrimary
Science Curriculum – and
closely aligned to the skills
of the National English
Curriculum (NEC).

Why choose Pearson International Primary Science?

This modern and exciting new science programme with an investigative approach at its heart:

Provides you with everything you need to teach science with confidence with detailed
lesson plans and structured, guided assessment helping you to support learning and ensure
progression - whether you are a specialist teacher or not.

Ensures smooth progression to Lower Secondary and International GCSE Science with a
detailed learning journey covering Years 1- 6 that continuously builds upon previous learning -
and prepares learners for their Year 6 examinations too.

Gives you access to all the support you need for planning, teaching, tracking and assessing
your students’ progress - including interactive activities, assessment, data insight and more
on our popular ActiveLearn Primary digital platform.

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What is in Pearson
International Primary Science?
Student Books Workbooks

Student Book Year 1 Student Book Year 2 Workbook Year 1 Workbook Year 2
9781292433424 • £20.00 9781292433318 • £20.00 9781292433288 • £10.00 9781292433295 • £10.00

Student Book Year 3 Student Book Year 4 Workbook Year 3 Workbook Year 4
9781292433325 • £20.00 9781292433417 • £20.00 9781292433257 • £10.00 9781292433264 • £10.00

Student Book Year 5 Student Book Year 6 Workbook Year 5 Workbook Year 6
9781292433301 • £20.00 9781292433271 • £20.00 9781292433394 • £10.00 9781292433400 • £10.00

ActiveLearn Primary Digital Subscriptions

It contains everything you need for planning, teaching, tracking and
assessing your students progress in one place.
Teacher Subscriptions
KS1 9781292729251 • £250 / Lower KS2 9781292729244 • £250 / Upper KS2 9781292461045 • £250

For information on eBook subscriptions, please visit pearsoninternational-schools.com/iprimaryscience

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 What you can expect
to find in the programme:
A modern and exciting science programme with scientific enquiry at its core,
designed to help you nurture enthusiastic and capable young scientists ready for
Lower Secondary – and International GCSE Science too!

Xxxxxxx 5 Sorting and grouping

materials Fun and engaging
textbooks and
The objects around us are made from materials.
Let us find out more about what some materials are like. workbooks (available in
Which materials can you
print and digital), with
see in the classroom?
interactive activities.

Topic 5 | Sorting and grouping materials

Using a key for materials

Is it soft?

Objects can be made of wood, stone or glass.

We can use a key to identify animals.

Yes

No
Humans can make plastic
We canin also
bright colours.
use a key to identify materials.
Our clothes are made from fabrics like wool and cotton.
Is it yellow? Is it made of metal?
Humans have used metals to make tools for thousands
A B
of years.

Yes

Yes
No

No
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plastic bag towel spanner pestle and mortar

Here are some objects.

Comprehensive coverage
Can you identify them using the key?
Object A is soft and blue and made of fabric.
D

of international primary
C

You may know what

Can you describe objects B, C and D like this?
all these objects are.
science curriculum written Still work through
Try making your own key for the objects in
by curriculum experts.
the key to check you
know how to use it. the table on page 116 of your workbook.

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Interactive activities, videos,

planning and assessment
support on our ActiveLearn
Primary digital platform.

Teach science with confidence with detailed

lesson plans and structured, guided assessment
to support learning and ensure progression -
whether you are a specialist teacher or not.

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 A closer look at the
Student Books Sign up to your
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Inspire young scientists from the start of Year 1 with

Pearson International Primary Science Student Books.
Take a closer look…
Topic 1 | Living things

Animals are living things

Animals are living things. Mascots provide

Living things are alive. Living things grow. helpful tips and
Living things need food to eat. The cat is watching a mouse. pose questions
Living things can move. Living things breathe.
The cat uses its senses. designed to aid
Think about what the cat will do. understanding and
Each unit opens
Predict what the cat will do next. encourage children
with an ‘overview
box’ explaining What is this cat to develop their
doing?
what the lesson scientific skills.
This toy elephant can move.
is about.

What is this
animal doing?

Key words
living things alive grow food eat
What happens to baby animals that
shows they are alive? move breathe baby senses predict

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Highlighted key words

through the book support
Real-word science, the development of
that young learners scientific language.
can relate to, sparks
curiosity and inspire
the next generation
of scientists.

Questions challenge
learners’ thinking
and encourage
Matching page numbers them to scientifically
in the textbooks and explore topics.
workbooks help learners
navigate their way around
the resources easily.

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 The course embeds a scientific-enquiry based approach to learning
and follows all six components of an investigative approach.

Topic 2 | Growing plants

Transport in plants
Let’s look for some evidence that things move inside plants.
Making observations
Transport means to move things. Plants need to move things
Testing the hypothesis
You will need:
from one part of the plant to another.
l white flowers
l food colouring
cm³
What do roots need to send to a small beaker of water.
Can you think of things that a
l
the leaves?
plant needs to move?

Asking a scientific question

leaf
Put a few drops of food colouring into the water.
Suggest what
leaves may need to
send to other parts
branch Put the stem of the flower into the coloured water. Analysing results and
of the plant. drawing conclusions
trunk
Look at the flower regularly for a day or two.
Forming an hypothesis
root What evidence do you have that
Which part is it moving through?
water moves inside the plant?

Key words

We cannot see things moving Scientists look for evidence to transport inside evidence
inside plants but we can look for show them whether something is
correct. correct colouring beaker through
evidence that it is happening.

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Presenting
those results
End-of-topic questions help learners check
their understanding of the content and
develop skills of application and analysis.
Topic 3 | End of topic questions

End of topic questions

2 a) Can you name some of
Animals the animals?
b) Try to find out any names
1 To which animal groups do the animals on you do not know.
this page belong?

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A closer look at the
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These write-in workbooks help capture learners’ progress in one place.

Additional activities help to consolidate learning and further develop
students’ scientific thinking and skills.

Animals are living things

Topic 1 | Living things

2 The pictures show three different animals.

1 Circle the correct answers.

Questions a) Which is the living lizard?

build from
simpler to more What are all the animals doing that shows they
challenging are alive?

ones to support
progression. b) Which two of these are living animals?
3 a) This toy is not a living thing.
The girl blows on the toy.
What can the toy do now?
Circle the correct answer.

toy
c) Which picture shows two living things?

girl

breathe eat grow sense move

b) Write a list of things that the girl can do.

Investigating streamlining
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Watching plants grow
and change 5
1 Investigate how fast different shapes move through liquid.

a) Write your scientific question.

1 The picture shows a
bean growing.
b) What will you change?
a) Label the
bean seed.
c) Describe what you will measure.
b) Label the soil.

2 Joel plants some see

ds in pots of soil.
d) (i) How much modelling clay will you use to keep each Write three other thin
shape the same mass? gs the seeds need to
grow into big plants.

(ii) Draw the shapes you will use in the space below.

Questions are written in the style of end-

of-term, end-of-year, and external Edexcel
assessment to help students become
familiar with exam style questions.
1.

e) Write two ways to make this a fair comparison. 2.

1.
3.
2.

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Practical activities support 14
the development of those
skills needed for future
progression in science.

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 A closer look at the
teacher’s resources
All the support you need to teach science with confidence
- whether you are a specialist teacher or not.
Underpinned by our International Primary Science curriculum, the course provides a detailed
and structured journey throughout primary with explicit progression to Lower Secondary and
onto Pearson Edexcel International GCSE.

Curriculum objectives are clearly outlined,

Clear, adaptable support for teaching with and key knowledge and skills are clearly
Schemes of work and detailed lesson plans. explained through the lesson planning.

Year Topic No. Topic Name Lesson No. Lesson Name

1 4 Plants 22 Parts of a plant

Curriculum objectives B1.4A – Recognise examples of plants in the local and wider environment
B1.4B – Know that plants have leaves, stems and roots
ESE1.2 – Investigating: Make simple observations to compare objects and/or living things

Learning focus What are the parts of a plant?

Key vocabulary leaves; stem; roots; describe; thorn

Book references Textbook pages 78–79 Workbook pages 78–79
Resources supplied Pre-prepared, unlabelled diagram of a simple plant on whiteboard or similar (for example, a simplified version of the one on
textbook page 78, a typical plant)
Pre-prepared, unlabelled diagram of a simple leaf on whiteboard or similar (for example, a simplified version of the one on
workbook page 80, a typical leaf)
ip_pips_lp_y1_tp4_rs1.doc A typical plant, A typical leaf
Other resources needed Variety of local plants showing roots, stems and leaves. Include at least one with thorns on the stem, which you can show
learners yourself. Include dandelions (Taraxacum sp.) if you wish to do the extension activity
Optional vocabulary cards for support
Optional pots of soil for the extension activity

Lesson Outline

Before you teach:

This lesson is best done practically, either by going outdoors or by bringing living specimens into the classroom. Include examples of plants with their roots on –
many weeds have good root systems and so can be dug up outdoors if soil conditions permit. Alternatively, stand uprooted weeds in a clear jar of water so that
learners can see their roots easily. The specimens should be organised in a way that learners can easily access and study them. Ensure that you check in advance
for hazardous local plants that you wish to avoid and for insect sting or pollen allergies.

If using vocabulary cards for support, prepare these in advance.

Set good foundations with scientific vocabulary: when referring to the function of leaves, use the word ‘trap’ (or ‘absorb’) not active words like ‘catch’, ‘try to find’ or
‘look for’. Likewise, refer to sunlight or light and not Sun or sunshine. Whenever you can, focus on the use of words ending in ‘-er’ and the word ‘more’ when
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Page-to-page mapping, direct links

Misconception and pre-requisites are
to resources and key vocabulary
highlighted in the ‘Before you teach’
save planning time while helping
sections to provide further teaching support.
you to deliver great lessons.

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Structured, guided assessment helps you to support learning and
ensures progression for all learners.

End of topic questions

What have I learned?
Plants
The pictures show different foods we get from plants.
Look at both sets of pictures. 1 I know which living things are plants when I
go outside or when I see pictures.

I know this because I can draw three

different plants.

2 I know the names of some parts of a plant.

I know this because I can list six different

plant parts.

1. 2.

3. 4.

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timely formative and summative 5. 6.
assessments are provided throughout the
resources, to help you track progress.
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Year 6 Revision sections

help learners prepare for
their end-of-year exams

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 A closer look at the
online resources
The digital subscriptions within this
programme contain everything you need for
planning, teaching, tracking and assessing
your students progress in one place.

What’s in Pearson International Primary

Science ActiveLearn?

6 front-of-class Student Books allocatable to students

6 front-of-class Workbooks allocatable to students
Over 200 lesson plans
Over 100 resource sheets

Plus, videos, interactive experiments, quizzes plus

allocatable and self-marking games.

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Professional Development
Designed for both specialist and non-specialist teachers, Pearson International Primary Science
Professional Development course will show you how to use our brand-new programme to deliver
great science lessons and help learners grow into enthusiastic and competent young scientists,
ready for Lower Secondary and International GCSE.

The course will specifically help you to:

• Understand the structure and resources available in our brand-new programme
• Explore its main features and how to use the resource to enhance teaching and learning
• Enhance lesson delivery by engaging and participating in learning activities
• Understand how to assess your learners’ progress.
Find out more at: pdacademy.pearson.com

Foundations for success

Pearson International Primary Science ensures 11-14 Exploring Science International
seamless progression to Lower Secondary and
International GCSE. We have a range of resources
available to help you prepare your students for success
in Pearson Edexcel’s world class qualifications.

For more information about resources from

Pearson visit pearsoninternational-schools.com 14-16 Pearson Edexcel International
GCSE (9–1) Science

iProgress
Pearson International Primary Science is part of the 5-11 suite of resources from Pearson
Edexcel’s iProgress family, our complete series for 3–19 year-olds in international schools.
The iProgress family includes iPrimary, iLowerSecondary, International GCSE (IG), GCSE,
International Advanced level (IAL) and GCE A level, and delivers a consistent learning journey
for students and teachers, everywhere in the world.

iPROGRESS
iPrimary International International
iLowerSecondary
Ages 3-11
GCSE (9-1) Advanced Level
Ages 11-14
English, maths, science, Ages 14-16 Ages 16-19
English, maths, science,
global citizenship, global citizenship
computing and and computing Available in more than Available in
early years 40 subjects 21 subjects

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