Science Olympiad Syllabus for class 5 Online Classes

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Science Syllabus for Olympiads – Class 5
I - Animals:
1) Classification of animals and birds- vertebrate and invertebrate
2) Food chains and web
3) Habitat and adaptation
4) Animals as producers, consumers, decomposers, scavengers
5) Animals lay eggs or give birth to young ones
6) Life cycle of an animal/ an insect/a bird
7) Classification of different animals on the basis of:
a) Body covering: Scales, shell, feathers, fur and wool
b) Feeding habits: Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores
c) Organs aiding in breathing: Lungs, gills, body surface or moist skin,
spiracles
d) Methods of moving: Land animals, reptiles, insects, birds, aquatic animals,
migration
II - Human body and Health:
1) Cells, tissues, organs and organ systems
2) Explain to which system the organs belong to and the basic functioning of these
systems in coordination with the other parts, like digestive, respiration, excretory and
nervous system
3) Organ system: Nervous system, skeletal system, muscular system, circulatory
system, digestive system, breathing system, excretory system, reproductive system
4) Types of muscles: Involuntary and voluntary muscles
5) Skeletal system-bones:
a) Importance of bones, muscles and joints for the body
b) Different types of joints
c) Functions of bones, major bones of the body - arms, legs, chest bone,
skull, jawbone, backbone
d) Care of bones and joints, food items to make the bones strong
6) Importance of good posture and exercise
7) Circulatory System:
8) Organs/parts of the circulatory system, their structure, functions (heart, arteries,
veins), functions of blood
9) Process of circulation through pictures, visuals in simple terms (no technical
knowledge to be given)
10) Components of a balanced diet, importance of eating a balanced diet
11) Junk food: meaning and examples; adverse effects of eating junk food
12) Preservation of perishable and nonperishable food

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13) Ways to make diet healthier (e.g. sprouting, fermentation)
14) Nutrients: Proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals
15) Diseases related to food habits, life style (obesity, anaemia, diabetes, blood
pressure); and symptoms of the diseases in simple terms
16) Prevention of the diseases in non-technical terms
17) Deficiency diseases - some common deficiency diseases and ways to prevent and
treat them: Kwashiorkor, marasmus, night blindness, anaemia, rickets, scurvy,
beriberi, goiter
18) Communicable and non-communicable disease
19) Type of germs, disease caused by them and mode their mode of transmission
20) Meaning of food adulteration and examples of some common adulterants
(awareness level only)
III - Plants:
1) Reproduction in plants: seed germination, grafting, shoots, bulbs, pollen, etc.
a) Stem—its types, functions, uses and modifications
b) Vascular plants
c) Parts of a flower (male and female)
d) Plants’ life cycle including pollination, fertilisation, seed production, seed
dispersal and germination
2) Other ways of reproduction in plants:
a) Vegetative reproduction-meaning
b) Vegetative reproduction from stem cuttings (potatoes, onion, ginger),
root (carrot), leaf (Bryophyllum)
3) New plants from seeds
4) Seed germination
5) Dispersal of seeds: By wind, by water, by animals, by explosion
6) Crops: food crops, fibre crops, oil-producing crops
7) Getting good yields from crops
8) Androecium and gynoecium.
9) Pollination:
a) Bisexual and monosexual flowers
b) Process of pollination.
c) Some ways of pollination (self and cross pollination)
IV - Water:
1) Substances which dissolves in water
2) Impurities in water
3) Removing insoluble impurities:
a) Sedimentation

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b) Decantation
c) Filtration
4) Removing soluble impurities
a) Evaporation
b) Distillation
5) Removing disease germs
6) Treatment of town water supply: Sedimentation, filtration, chlorination
7) Water pollution
V - Natural Resources and Calamities:
1) Natural and man-made resources
2) The atmosphere: How does atmosphere protect us.
3) Composition of air
4) Inhaled and exhaled air
5) Properties of air:
a) Air occupies space
b) Air has weight
c) Air is needed for burning
d) Air exerts pressure
6) Uses of air pressure
7) Air pollution
8) Sources of fuels
9) Need to save fuel
10) Science and technology and its effect on human beings
11) Natural calamities such as Forest Fire – its causes and effects
12) Natural calamities: Floods, droughts and earthquakes
13) Floods and cyclones:
a) Controlling floods
b) Reducing damage due to the floods
14) Droughts:
a) Reducing the effects of droughts
15) Earthquakes:
a) What causes earthquakes?
b) When there is an earthquake?
16) Tsunami
17) Things to do when faced with a natural calamity
VI - Earth and Universe:
1) The Solar Family:
a) Sun and its planets as a family –galaxies, stars, comets, asteroids, meteoroids,
satellites (natural and artificial)
b) Latitude and longitude

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c) Imaginary lines around the earth
2) The Earth and beyond
a) how the sun appears to move during the day and how shadows change
b) how the spin of the Earth leads to day and night
3) Movement of the moon
4) Phases of the moon
5) Conditions on moon
6) Exploration of the moon
7) Eclipses:
a) Lunar eclipse
b) Solar eclipse
VII - Matter:
1) Solids: Properties of solids-definite shape, geometry. Give examples of sugar
crystals
2) Liquids: Properties of liquids-occupy space, flow from high level to low level, take the
shape of the container. Separation of liquids from solids
3) Gases: Properties of gases-no definite shape and volume
4) Composition of gases in air; with experiment- land and sea breezes, monsoon
breezes
5) Role of ventilators in houses/halls, closed spaces- warm air lighter than fresh air
6) Solute and solvent
VIII - Force, Work and Energy:
1) Need for machines. Types of simple machines used in day-to-day life (lever, screw,
pulley, wheel and axle, pulley, screw, wedge)
2) Need for levers. Types of levers
a) First class lever
b) Second class lever
c) Third class lever
d) examples related to daily life
3) Meaning of work, examples of work done/not done
4) Definition of energy; energy is need for work
5) Various kinds/forms of energy - light, heat, electricity, sound
6) Renewable and nonrenewable sources of energy and examples of each kind