Primary

5

Natural

Science

LEARNING IS GROWING is an educational project from Anaya English for Primary Education.

HELLO FRIENDS!
I'd like to introduce you to the people that helped me make this book for you! Take a look at who they are and what they've done!

Contents

Deborah Spencer

Illustrations

Editorial coordination

Carlos Díaz, David Menéndez, 
Carlos Moreno and Marta Moreno

Stephanie Gay

Layout

Editors

Almudena Alcón, Esther Fernández, Stephanie Gay, Natalie Krol, Danny Latimer, Jorge Pimenta and Marco Sánchez

Nerea Daza, Milagros Recio 
y Verónica de la Sierra

Correction

Art Director

Isabel Gallego

Àngels Navarro

Graphic editing

Design

Núria Altamirano

Olga Sayans

Photographs

Age Fotostock, Anaya archive (Alcón, A. y Santos, V.E., Candel, C., Canto, M., Cosano, P., Estrada-Nora, R., Grajera, R. y Muñiz, E., Lacey, T., Leiva, Á de., Lezama, D., López Archilla, A., Marín, E., Martín, J. A., Moya, B., Ortega, A., Padura, S., Pérez-Uz, B., Portillo, F. – Facultad Biología UAM, Rico, J.J., R. Jove, V., Ruiz, J.B., Ruiz Pastor, L., Sánchez, J., 6x6 Producción fotográfica, Steel, M.) ASA/Minden Pictures, Corbis/Cordon Press, Getty Images, SOHO (NASA y ESA), 123RF/Quickimages.

Thanks to the children

Andrea Palma, Alba María Gil de Avalla, Sergio Torres, Ismael Machado, Angel Vera, Aitana Diez, Manuel Portillo, Andrea Hisado, Pedro Burgueño, María Clara Prado, Iñaki Pau, Natalia Osorio.

© This edition: GRUPO ANAYA, S.A., 2014 - Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, 15 - 28027 Madrid - ISBN: 978-84-678-4995-0
D. L.: M-7326-2014 - Printed in Spain.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.



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Index

Living beings Page 6

Monera, protoctista and fungi Page 14

Plants Page 14

Human beings Page 30

Unit

1

Ecosystems Page 22

Science and health Page 46

Matter and its properties Page 54

Energy, force and change Page 62

Energy, people and machines Page 70

Contents

Main content

Living beings

Unit

1

• The cells

• The vital functions

• The classification of living beings

• Animal kingdoms and species

• Naming species

Plants

Unit

2

• The cells

• The vital functions

• The classification of living beings

• Animal kingdoms and species

• Naming species

• What are plants?

• The nutrition function in plants

• The interaction function in plants

• The reproduction function in plants

Ecosystems

Unit

3

• What is an ecosystem?

• Other relationships

• How living beings adapt

• Humans change ecosystems

• Sustainable development

Human beings

Unit

4

• The interaction function

• The senses

• Protecting your senses

Human 
development

Unit

5

• The nervous system

• The skeleton

• The muscles

• Health and the nervous system

• Health and the musculoskeletal system

Science 
and health

Unit

6

• Health and illness

• The prevention of disease

• Medicine

• Scientific advances and health

• Fleming and antibiotics

Matter 
and its properties

Unit

7

• Matter and its properties

• Measuring mass and volume

• The specific properties of matter

• Classifying matter

• How we use matter

Energy, 
force and change

Unit

8

• What is energy?

• Energy and change

• Physical changes and heat

• Physical changes and forces

Energy, 
people and machines

Unit

9

• Energy transformation

• Energy sources

• Pollution and global warming

• Energy and machines

• Technological and scientific advances

Skills

CLIL

• English: Phrasal verbs: made up of, carry out (p. 7)

• Arts and Crafts: Bacteria art (p. 9)

• Project 1: Living beings

• Project 2: Cells

• Arts and Crafts: Art and nature (p. 15)

• Physical Education: The plant game (p. 19)

• Project: Studying leaves and trees

• Social Science: Geography and climate (p.22)

• English: Collective nouns (p.24)

• Project: Environmental improvement

• Project: Favourite smells

• English: False friends (p. 30)

• Physical Education: Relay race (p. 31)

• Music: Our sense of hearing
(p. 35)

• Physical Education: Posture (p. 41)

• Physical Education: Muscle pairs (p. 43)

• Project: You're the doctor

• Social Science: Developing countries (p. 46)

• Arts and Crafts: Danse Macabre (p. 50)

• Project: Basic first aid

• Physical Education: Density (p 56)

• Arts and Crafts: Recycling matter (p 59)

• Project: Designing objects

• Social Science: Volcanoes (p 65)

• Project: Making a cake

• Music: Environmental songs (p 74)

• Technology: Gadgets (p 76)

• Project: Energy transformation: Chemical to magnetic