MALAYSIA PRIMARY

SCIENCE CURRICULUM 1
• Objectives
• Learning Outcomes
• Emphases – skills, content, values
• Content organization – themes, learning areas
 Aims
The aim of the primary schools science curriculum
are:
1.To provide opportunities for pupils to learn about
themselves and the environment through
everyday experiences and scientific
investigations.
2. To acquire knowledge and skills in science and
technology.
3. To apply these knowledge and skills based on
scientific attitudes and noble values to make
decision and solve problems in everyday life.
4. To provide a strong foundation in science and
technology to prepare pupils for the learning of
science in secondary school.
 Objectives
1. Stimulate pupils’ curiosity and develop their
interest about the world around them.
2. Provide pupils with the opportunities to develop
science process skills and thinking skills.
3. Develop pupils’ creativity
4. Provide pupils with basic science knowledge
and concepts
5. To provide learning opportunities for pupils to
apply knowledge and skills in a creative and
critical manner for problem solving and decision
making.
6. Inculcate scientific attitudes and positive values.
7. Foster the appreciation on the contributions of
science and technology towards national
development and well-being of mankind
8. Be aware the need to love and care for the
environment.
 Content Organisation
• Themes
 Organised around themes.
 Each theme consists of various learning area
• Learning area
 Each learning area has one or more learning
outcomes based on the particular theme and learning
area
• Learning outcomes
 The learning outcomes integrate the acquisition of
knowledge, the mastering of thinking skills and scientific
skills, the inculcation of scientific attitudes and noble value.
• Learning activities
 are suggested to achieve each learning outcome.
Emphasis on learning which stimulates thinking and
developes pupils mind in the process of learning science
concepts and the application of S&T
Thoughtful learning occurs through various learning
approaches such as inquiry, contextual learning,
constructivism, mastery learning, meaningful
learning and STS.
Learning approaches encompass methods such as
experiment, dscussion, simulation, project
 Emphases – skills, content, values

• Scientific skills
 required to investigate and understand nature, to
find answers to problems and to make decisions in a
systematic manner.
Comprise of science process skills and manipulative
skills.
 Science Process Skills (SPS)
• Promote thinking in a critical, creative, analytical
and systematic manner.
• The mastering of SPS together with scientific
attitudes and appropriate knowledge ensure
pupils’ ability to think effectively.
• SPS:
1. Observing
2. Classifiying
3. Measuring and using numbers
4. Inferring
5. Predicting
6. Communicating
7. Using space / time relationship
8. Interpreting data
9. Defining operationally
10.Controlling variables
11.Hypothesising
12.Experimenting
 Manipulative Skills
• Psychomotor skills used in scientific
investigations which enable pupils to:
I. Use and handle scientific equipment and substances
properly.
II. Store scientific equipment properly and safely
III. Clean scientific equipment properly
IV. Handle specimen properly and carefully
V. Observe, record and measure accurately
 Thinking Skills
• The teaching and learning of science provides a
good opportunity to develop student thinking
skills.
• Can be categorised into critical thinking and
creative thinking skills
 Scientific attitudes and noble values
• Can be done spontaneously or through planned
activities
 Knowledge Contents (Level 1)
• Level 1(Year 1 – 3)
• Organised to two themes
A. Learning about living things
B. Learning about the world around us
 Knowledge contents (Level 11)
• Year 4 to year 6
• Are organised around five themes
A. Investigating Living Things
B. Investigating force and energy
C. Investigating materials
D. Investigating the Earth and the universe
E. Investigating technology