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About iThink Science

iThink Science aims to present our students with the amazing wonders of science all around us, through fun and interesting ways!
iThink Science trains students in observation, investigation, innovative, critical & creative thinking skills through the Singapore Science Curriculum, a successful programme evident by the performance of its students, topping PISA rankings.

Our Science Teaching, Learning & Assessment Strategies are based on 5E Instructional Model

1. Engage

– Piques curiosity and generates interest.
– Determine students’ current understanding.
– Prompt students to express and question.

2. Explore

– Facilitate by providing and encouraging interaction through exploration and investigation of new ideas and materials.
– Comparing and contrasting ideas and experiences by probing questions.

3. Explain

– Encourage expression of personal understanding and development of own explanations with justifications, through questions.
– Allow for reflection and revision, if necessary.
– Introduce terminology and provide alternate explanations.

4. Elaborate

– Focus students’ attention on conceptual connections between new and former experiences.
– Encourage extrapolation to explain a new occurrence or idea.
– Reinforce students’ learning.
– Pose questions to help students draw reasonable conclusion from evidence and data.

5. Evaluate

– Observe and record.
– Allow for comparison and revision.
– Interview as a means of assessing students’ understanding.
– Encourage students to assess own progress and dwell deeper into their own understanding.

Our Aims of Teaching Science

Guide students in acquiring knowledge with understanding for application in their daily lives such that they:
• are motivated to learn science through contextual and hands-on learning;
• are able to problem-solve and use thinking and inquiry processes;
• can communicate effectively;
• develop safety consciousness and safe practice;
• become confident citizens who are able to cope with the changing and progressive nature of science and technology in the world.

Enable students to develop 21st century competencies which would enable them to:
• acquire problem-solving skills and use thinking and inquiry processes;
• become responsible individuals and productive citizens;
• acquire life-long learning skills;
• show care and concern for people and the environment;
• use information communications technology (ICT) for communications, collaboration and as a tool for data collection and the analysis of results.
Enable students to be suitably prepared for post-secondary courses, such that they:
• develop abilities and skills which would also be relevant and useful in the work place;
• become aware of the impact of science and technology on society, industry, and business.

Our Activities

“Not memorizing, but understanding and experiencing the individual processes in our Digestive System from the time food enters our mouth to how it is digested and finally exits our body. How fun yet educational!

Singapore Science, Digestive System

“Dear mum and dad , teacher taught us our body system, she allowed us to do cutouts on our skeletal system,we did the different areas of our body joins using papers and try stapeling the join areas thus learn further more about digestive,respiratory,circulartory and muscular system…

Singapore Science, Body System

“Now with the estimation of the entire figure on the board…looks horselike but I still need to try to put my drawing conclusion thinking skill and recording sheets to tell to confirm this animal..thinking further what it ate,close look at its teeth,etc… Indeed, it’s not an easy job for a paleontologist!

Singapore Science, Critical Thinking

The life cycle of the mealworms of beetles.

Singapore Science

Life Cycle of a plant

Singapore Science

Internal Organ

Singapore Science