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:
- “Sort these foods into healthy and unhealthy.”
- “Aisha empties her lunch bag. 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:
- “Bayo puts a hand on the chest and feels a steady beat. What is the heart doing?”
- “Emeka raced his friend to the gate. What happened to his heartbeat?”
- “When Tunde breathes in through the nose or mouth, which body part does the air travel to?”
Life Cycle Dojo
Seeds, animals & growing up
2 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “Bayo watches a seed travel far away from its parent plant, carried by a bird's droppings. What is this called?”
- “Tunde's brown hen hatches some chicks. Will the chicks likely be brown or green?”
Food Chain Dojo
Who eats what
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “A leafy plant makes its own food using sunlight. Is this a producer or a consumer?”
- “Aisha watches a lizard catch a grasshopper. Which one is the predator?”
- “Ngozi 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:
- “Ngozi stirs potash into a cup of water. Does it dissolve?”
- “Ngozi stirs salt into a pot of soup and it disappears. Where did the salt go?”
- “Bayo watches clouds form high in the cool sky as water vapour rises and cools. 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 sheet of tissue paper. 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:
- “Three of these are loud. Which one is quiet?”
- “Sort these sounds into loud and quiet.”
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?”
- “Yetunde says a tin can 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:
- “Tunde spins his bicycle wheel around the rod at its centre. Which simple machine is this?”
- “Emeka learns about a wheel and axle. What does a wheel and axle make easier?”
- “Tunde uses a pulley to lift a heavy bucket of water from a well. What do we call the heavy bucket of water he is lifting?”
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:
- “Aisha spreads wet cassava on a mat and the sun dries it by the afternoon. Which stage is this like?”
- “Musa says wet clothes dry faster in strong sunshine because of evaporation. Is he right?”
- “Tunde says collection is when the sun heats the water and it turns into vapour. Is he right?”
Space Dojo
Sun, moon & planets
3 of its 10 levels are set at Primary 5
Questions at this level look like:
- “Put these planets in order, starting with the one nearest the Sun.”
- “Chidi watches the sunset. Which way is Chidi facing?”
- “Ngozi has a birthday on the exact same date every time it comes round. How long did Earth take to travel all the way around the sun?”
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:
- “Rubbish is dumped into the pond behind the school. What kind of pollution is this?”
- “Black smoke billows from the old danfo bus stuck in traffic. What kind of pollution is this?”
- “Why is it good to share a ride to school with a neighbour?”
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 is free to play online — every dojo, every level, with narration. Ninja Pass is ₦1,500 a month, or ₦15,000 a year (two months free), and adds offline play, the parent progress report and up to three children. 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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