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Strand A: STEM Skills and Connections
How science and technology are used in occupations and with other subjects, and what different communities have contributed (expectation A3).
- Mathematics at work: water tunnels and ceilings Occupations and school subjects that work together on real problems: levelling a water tunnel and measuring a ceiling (A3.1, A3.2). CareersInvention × 2
- Numbers and paper: contributions that travelled Analysing what different communities contributed to science and technology, through a way of reckoning and a craft that moved (A3.3). Invention × 2
Strand B: Life Systems
Human activity and the environment, and how a class might judge ways of caring for it (expectation B1).
Strand C: Matter and Energy
Pure substances and mixtures, and how mixtures are separated (expectation C2).
Strand D: Structures and Mechanisms
Structures built for people, their forms, failures and materials (expectations D1, D2).
- A fountain for a neighbourhood The environmental, social and economic things to weigh when a structure is built for a community need (D1.1). Place
- Arches and domes Looking at two arched and domed structures and deciding whether each is solid, frame or shell (D2.1). Place × 2
- When a building falls Two accounts of buildings that fell, and the forces and factors a class can ask about (D2.5). Story × 2
- What it is made of Why Iraqi potters chose a tin-oxide glaze for fine ware (D2.6). Object