Grade 5Science and Technology

What your child actually learns this year

Every strand and every topic in the Grade 5 Science and Technology curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.

1Living Things and their EnvironmentThe biggest strand: how living things are grouped, and a close look at how your child's own body takes in air.3 topics·159 questions

  • Classification of Plants

    4 skills

    Flowering and non-flowering, the parts of a flower and what each one does, and why flowers matter beyond looking nice.

  • Vertebrates

    3 skills

    What every animal with a backbone has in common, the main groups they fall into, and the part they play around us.

  • The Human Breathing System

    4 skills

    The parts, what each does, and the symptoms and prevention of the common breathing illnesses. The widest topic in the subject.

2MatterWhat things are made of and how to get them apart again, and then what happens when water is spoilt.2 topics·107 questions

  • Mixtures

    4 skills

    Telling an even mixture from an uneven one, the methods that separate them, and where each method is already used at home.

  • Water Pollution

    5 skills

    What gets into water, what that does to people, how water is treated, and what reduces the problem in the first place.

3Force and EnergyThree topics that are all best done by trying them: floating, sound and heat.3 topics·134 questions

  • Floating and Sinking

    4 skills

    What floats and what does not, what decides it, and why a life jacket works.

  • Sound Energy

    4 skills

    Where sound comes from, how it travels, and what loud noise does to hearing.

  • Heat transfer

    4 skills

    The ways heat moves, which materials carry it well and which do not, the uses that follow, and the safety that has to go with it.

Why you can take this page at face value

Straight from the KICD design

The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 5 Science and Technology curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.

Nothing here is a sample

Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.

Marked by a machine, written by a person

Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.

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400 Grade 5 Science and Technology questions in the bank, covering every topic on this page.