MPH Primary Science

My Pals are Here! Science Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) Primary 3&4 is a set of graded questions aimed at stretching the mental abilities of competent pupils by exercising the higher order thinking skills. There is one set of questions for each chapter in the textbooks. Each set of questions is divided into two sections. The first section, Developing Your Skills, helps pupils become more familiar with employing the various process skills (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation). The second section, Taking up the Challenge, provides further enrichment by training pupils’ inquiry skills. At the end of each set of questions there is a table indicating the precise skill addressed by each question.

Answers are provided at the back, with explanations for the more complex questions.

MPH Science Higher Order Thinkg Skills P3/4

Contents

Process skills

Diversity

Thematic overview
1. Classifying things
2. Living and non-living things
3. Plants
4. Animals
5. Classifying animals
6. Fungi and bacteria
7. Exploring materials

Study smart - Making notes

Cycles

Thematic overview
1. Life cycles
2. Life cycles of some animals
3. Life cycles of plants
4. What is matter?
5. The three states of matter

Systems

Thematic overview
1. What is a system?
2. Your amazing body
3. The digestive system
4. Plants and their parts

Study smart - Self-questioning

Interactions

Thematic overview
1. Magnets and their characteristics
2. Making magnets
3. Magnets, magnets, everywhere

Energy

Thematic overview
1. Light and shadows
2. Heat and temperature
3. Effects of heat

Study smart - Concept maps

Answers