{"id":859,"date":"2016-08-15T20:32:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T20:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/kuwait\/the-science-curriculum-in-primary-and-lower-secondary-grades\/"},"modified":"2016-09-13T20:02:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T20:02:05","slug":"the-science-curriculum-in-primary-and-lower-secondary-grades","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/kuwait\/the-science-curriculum-in-primary-and-lower-secondary-grades\/","title":{"rendered":"The Science Curriculum in Primary and Lower Secondary Grades"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"carouselwrap\"><div id=\"menu-kuwait\" class=\"carouselmenu\"><a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/kuwait\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>Introduction<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/kuwait\/the-mathematics-curriculum-in-primary-and-lower-secondary-grades\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>The Mathematics Curriculum in Primary and Lower Secondary Grades<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/kuwait\/the-science-curriculum-in-primary-and-lower-secondary-grades\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>The Science Curriculum in Primary and Lower Secondary Grades<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/kuwait\/teachers-teacher-education-and-professional-development\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>Teachers, Teacher Education, and Professional Development<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/kuwait\/instruction-for-mathematics-and-science-in-primary-and-lower-secondary-grades\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>Instruction for Mathematics and Science in Primary and Lower Secondary Grades<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/kuwait\/monitoring-student-progress-in-mathematics-and-science\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>Monitoring Student Progress in Mathematics and Science<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/kuwait\/special-initiatives-in-mathematics-and-science-education\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>Special Initiatives in Mathematics and Science Education<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/kuwait\/use-and-impact-of-timss\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>Use and Impact of TIMSS<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/kuwait\/suggested-readings\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>Suggested Readings<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/kuwait\/references\/\" class=\"menu-link main-menu-link menu-item menu-item-type-custom menu-item-object-custom\"><span>References<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/div><\/div>\t<style>\n\t\t.carouselwrap{\n\t\t\tbackground: #e5eaef;\n\t\t}\t\t\n\t\t.owl-item a{\n\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff;\n\t\t\tborder: 4px #00b2cc solid;\n\t\t\tcolor: #000000;\n\t\t}\t\t\n\t\t.owl-item a:hover,\n\t\t.owl-item a:focus,\n\t\t.owl-item a.current-menu-item{\n\t\t\tbackground: #00667f;\n\t\t\tborder: 4px #00b2cc solid;\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tcolor: #ffffff;\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t\n<h2>The Science Curriculum in Primary and Lower Secondary Grades<\/h2>\n<p>The science curriculum in Kuwait also underwent revision prior to 2008. The revised science curriculum was implemented gradually, beginning with Grades 1 to 3 in the 2008\u20132009 academic year, followed by Grades 4 to 7 in 2009\u20132010, Grade 8 in 2010\u20132011, and Grade 9 in 2011\u20132012. The revised science curriculum contains the basic concepts that comprised the previous curriculum, including international, structural, and cumulative concepts, but in the revised curriculum topics are presented in a way that allows deeper exploration of the scientific material.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of Grade 4, students are expected to have studied the following science topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Life Sciences and the Environment\u2014Personal hygiene, social interaction, and basic facts about animals, insects, plants, animal breeding, animal habitats, the human body, and the role of the sea<\/li>\n<li>Natural Sciences\u2014Light, sound, temperature, fire, magnetism, water, air, pollution, electricity, and transportation<\/li>\n<li>Earth and Space Sciences\u2014The Sun, the Moon, the seasons, rain, Earth\u2019s gravity, and topics related to oil, including its sources, exploration, and benefits<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By the end of Grade 8, students are expected to have studied some of the topics covered in the primary grades in greater depth. At this level, the curriculum is divided into three sections\u2014Life Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Earth Sciences and Astronomy\u2014and covers the following topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Life Sciences\u2014Parts of the plant, photosynthesis, aquatic plants, environmental pollution, simple organisms, the relationship between man and microbes, infectious diseases and treatment, viruses, air and gases, tissue structure and cells, and HIV-AIDS, including protection against the disease<\/li>\n<li>Natural Sciences\u2014Elements and compounds, mixtures and solutions, features of materials, temperature, power and energy, magnetism, sound, acids, bases, salts, the atom, electricity, light, mass, and measurement<\/li>\n<li>Earth Science and Astronomy\u2014Earth, the Moon, stars, and the Sun; the solar system; man and the universe; air pressure; the seasons; and man and weather<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Science Curriculum in Primary and Lower Secondary Grades The science curriculum in Kuwait also underwent revision prior to 2008. The revised science curriculum was implemented gradually, beginning with Grades 1 to 3 in the 2008\u20132009 academic year, followed by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/countries\/kuwait\/the-science-curriculum-in-primary-and-lower-secondary-grades\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":149,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-859","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5789,"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/859\/revisions\/5789"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timss2015.org\/encyclopedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}