North Melbourne Primary School

2026 Science Curriculum Overview

Welcome from Georgie, Kimalee and Nick, the 2026 Science Team

Science at North Melbourne Primary School is an innovative, hands-on, comprehensive program that allows our students to develop an understanding of the four areas of inquiry: Earth & Space, Biological, Chemical and Physical Sciences. In these four areas students will be encouraged to explore their curiosity, along with their questioning and predicting skills.  Students’ questions and predictions will lead to further exploration, team research and experiments and finally onto collaborating and drawing of conclusions.  Development of these critical thinking skills will be combined with having a respectful understanding of other people, cultures and our environment.

Throughout the year all students will work through a wide range of activities and experiments with the opportunity to use a variety of materials.  Viewing news articles, movies, animations, models, artefacts and demonstrations along with participating in hands-on experiments, art and craft projects, inventing, teamwork and problem solving are just some of those activities.

Each student will be encouraged to see the relationship between effort and achievement as they complete their Science activities and meet goals in their Science learning. Science work will be sent home throughout the year, along with a workbook that will go home at the end of the school year.  Science progression points will be reported on in Terms 2 and 4.    

Samples of the amazing Science work our students do will be regularly published in the school’s fortnightly newsletter, providing a sample of the experiments, activities and work completed by students at NMPS.

	Term 1	Term 2	Term 3	Term 4
	Earth and Space Sciences	Biological Sciences	Physical Sciences	Chemical Sciences
Prep	Weather	Living Things	On the Move	Made of Materials
Level 1	Caring for Habitats	Fur, Feathers, Skin and Scales	Light and Sound	Bend, Twist and Melt
Level 2	Our Solar System	Classification	Push and Pull	Mixing and Making
Level 3	Our Solar System*Precious Water  2027	Lifecycles Human Body Systems: Digestive & Urinary	Motion and Magnetism	Changes of Matter
Level 4	Earth’s Crust	Circle of Life – Food Chains and Ecosystems	Temperature and	Eco-Warriors: Natural & Processed Materials and their Waste
Level 5	Space exploration	Survival Adaptations	Light: Absorbed, Reflected and Refracted	Solid, Liquid, Gas and ?
Level 6	Natural Resource Management	GrowthHuman Body Systems: Respiratory & Circulatory	Electric!	Changing Materials