Primary 5 / Year 5 Science Curriculum
Alpha Brain teaches Primary 5 (Year 5) science through 14 dojos and 37 short narrated levels, for children aged 9–10.
Coverage spans Living Things, Materials & Their Properties, Forces & Energy, Earth & Space and Our Environment.
Every level is matched to both the Nigerian NERDC primary curriculum and the British Key Stage 2, and plays in a browser or the installed app.
- Class (Nigeria)
- Primary 5
- Year group (UK)
- Year 5
- Stage (UK)
- Key Stage 2
- Age
- 9–10
- Dojos
- 14
- Levels
- 37
Primary 5 Science topics
Living Things
Healthy Eating
Food groups & diet
2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “Three of these are healthy. Which one is the unhealthy food?”
- “Sort these foods into healthy and unhealthy.”
Inside My Body Dojo
Teeth, bones, heart & lungs
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “Chidi puts a hand on the chest and feels a steady beat. What is the heart doing?”
- “Musa eats a meal and it is digested. What does blood carry from digested food to the rest of the body?”
- “Ada says we breathe using our lungs. Is she right?”
Life Cycle Dojo
Seeds, animals & growing up
2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “Ngozi watches a bee visit a hibiscus flower and carry tiny grains to another flower. What are these tiny grains called?”
- “Chidi plants seeds from a tall maize plant. Will the new maize plants likely grow tall or short?”
Food Chain Dojo
Who eats what
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “Grass makes its own food using sunlight. Is this a producer or a consumer?”
- “Ngozi's teacher asks where a plant's energy comes from before it makes its own food. What is the answer?”
- “Emeka builds a longer food chain with four living things. Put them in order, starting with the one that makes its own food.”
Materials & Their Properties
Solid, Liquid, Gas
States of matter
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “Chidi stirs flour into a cup of water. Does it dissolve?”
- “Ngozi stirs salt into a pot of soup and it disappears. Where did the salt go?”
- “Tunde breathes onto a cold window and it fogs up with tiny droplets. What is this called?”
Forces & Energy
Light Dojo
Light & shadows
2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “Early in the morning, the sun is low in the sky. Is Tunde's shadow long or short?”
- “Sunlight shines on a glass of clear water. Is it transparent, translucent, or opaque?”
Sound Dojo
How sound is made
2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “Sort these sounds into loud and quiet.”
- “Sort these sounds into high and low.”
Spark Dojo
Circuits & conductors
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “Is this a conductor or an insulator?”
- “Ngozi says a battery can give us electricity. Is she right?”
- “Zainab says a ceramic plate lets electricity flow. Is she right?”
Magnet Dojo
Magnetic & poles
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “Sort these into magnetic and not magnetic.”
Machine Dojo
Levers, ramps & pulleys
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “Ada walks up a sloped path instead of climbing straight up a steep hill. Which simple machine is this?”
- “Aisha learns about a lever. What does a lever make easier?”
- “Chidi notices the edge of a spoon that a bottle top turns against. What do we call this edge of the spoon?”
Earth & Space
Sky Dojo
Day, night & sky
2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “Sort these into what we see in the day and at night.”
Water Cycle Dojo
Evaporation to rain
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “The overflowing gutters send water rushing into the canal. Which stage is this?”
- “Before condensation, what comes just before it in the water cycle?”
- “Bimpe says precipitation is when the sun heats the water and it turns into vapour. Is she right?”
Space Dojo
Sun, moon & planets
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “Which of these is nearest the Sun: Jupiter, Venus, or Neptune?”
- “Put these planets in order, starting with the one nearest the Sun.”
- “Chidi watches the moon and learns it takes about this long to travel all the way around Earth. Which one?”
Our Environment
Our Earth Dojo
Keeping our environment healthy
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “A haze hangs over the road from the okada engines idling. What kind of pollution is this?”
- “A heap of rubbish grows at the corner of the street. What kind of pollution is this?”
- “Why is it good to refill your water bottle instead of buying a new one?”
What a level is like
Every level is 10 questions long and takes a few minutes. Questions are read aloud in recorded narration rather than robotic text-to-speech, and answers are tapped, dragged or typed on a number pad rather than written, so a child who is still learning to read can play unaided.
Most dojos open with a short lesson before the questions start. Get one wrong and the level teaches the step you missed before showing the answer, and you can play the level again — the questions vary on each replay, so it is practice rather than memorising a fixed sheet. Levels are scored out of three stars.
Primary 5 Science questions parents ask
- What does Alpha Brain cover in Primary 5 Science?
- Alpha Brain teaches Primary 5 (Year 5) science through 14 dojos and 37 short narrated levels, for children aged 9–10. The topics are Healthy Eating, Solid, Liquid, Gas, Light, Sound and 10 more, grouped under Living Things, Materials & Their Properties, Forces & Energy, Earth & Space and Our Environment.
- What is Primary 5 in the British system?
- Primary 5 in Nigeria matches Year 5 in the UK, which sits in Key Stage 2, for children aged 9–10. Alpha Brain teaches both from the same science levels, so a family moving between the two systems keeps its progress.
- Is the Primary 5 Science content aligned to the NERDC curriculum?
- Yes. Every science dojo is tagged to a NERDC strand — at Primary 5 that is Living Things, Materials & Their Properties, Forces & Energy, Earth & Space and Our Environment — and the same levels are matched to the British Key Stage 2 programme of study.
- How many Science levels are there for Primary 5?
- 37 levels across 14 dojos at Primary 5 / Year 5, at 10 questions a level — about 370 questions. A level takes a few minutes, so it fits a school night.
- Does Alpha Brain cover the National Common Entrance syllabus?
- Alpha Brain is not an exam-prep course and does not publish past papers. It does teach the science groundwork the National Common Entrance Examination draws on: at Primary 5 that is Living Things, Materials & Their Properties, Forces & Energy, Earth & Space and Our Environment, practised across 37 levels.
- How much does Alpha Brain cost?
- Alpha Brain costs ₦15,000 per year for a child, and a 3-day free trial unlocks when you invite three friends. That covers all three subjects — Maths, English and Science — from Nursery 1 to Primary 6, not just Science.
Play Primary 5 Science tonight
Create an account, pick Primary 5 in Settings, and your child starts on the first level of whichever dojo you choose.
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