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Elementary Elementary Science Grade 1

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Suggested Prerequisites

N/A

Description

This is a foundational course with concepts across many types of sciences including Earth and Space Science, Life Science, and Physical Science. Through exploring, making and comparing observations, describing, modeling, and demonstrating, students will learn about force and motion, space, Earth, changes to Earth’s surface, gravity, basic needs of living things, plants, water, parents and offspring, and living and nonliving things.

Module 1: Properties of Objects

-Observable properties, such as size, shape, color,weight, temperature and texture

-Observe whether items sink or float

-Observations of an investigation using the five senses

-Keep records of observations

Module 2: Make it Move

-Ways objects move, such as in a straight line, zig zag, back and forth, round and round

-The speed at which objects move

-Changes in the way an object moves because of a push or pull

-The law of gravity

-Observations of an investigation using the five senses

-Keep records of observations

Module 3: Earth's Treasures

-Rocks, soil, water, and living organisms living on Earth's surface

-Fast and slow changes to Earth's surface

-Observations of an investigation using the five senses

-Keep records of observations

Module 4: Fun in the Sun

-The illumination of objects by the Sun

-Engineering and investigation of light energy

-Benefits and harmful properties of the Sun

-Effect on objects by the Sun

-Uses for water and water safety

Module 5: Stars in the Sky

-Objects and patterns in the sky

-Sun, Moon, and stars

-Types of magnifiers

Module 6: Living Things

-Living and nonliving things

-Basic needs of living things

-Environments of living things

-External structures of living things

-Engineering design of a model

Module 7: Green and Wild

-Major parts of a plant

-Offspring traits of their parents

-Variations within a population

-Observations using the five senses

-Question asking

-Record keeping

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