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Elementary Elementary Science Grade K

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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 observations, and describing, students explore the five senses, the properties and motion of objects, the day and night skies, the size and distance of objects, plants, and animals.

Module One: The Five Senses

-The five senses and related body parts

-Texture and touch

-Sound and vibration

-Describe taste and smell

-Observation

Module Two: Properties of Objects

-Size, weight, color, shape, texture, and temparature of objects

-Sort by observable properties of matter

-Change in materials (cutting, tearing, crumpling, smashing, or rolling)

-Observation

Module Three: Motion

-Motion of objects (fast, slow)

-Change in motion

-Forces (push and pull)

-Law of gravity

-Record keeping

Module Four: Day and Night Sky

-The Moon during day and night

-The Sun during the day

-Warming effect of sunlight

-Visual representation of an object

-Compare two sets of data

-Size and distance of objects as seen from Earth

-Observation

Module Five: Animals

-What animals do

-How animals look

-What animals need to survive

-How animals change the environment to meet their needs

-Local weather

-Weather patterns

-Severe weather

-Data collection

-Observation

Module Six: Plants

-What plants do and how animals look

-How plants look

-Differences in plants and animals in media and in real life

-What plants need to survive

-How plants change their environment

-Compare plants and animals

-Model the relationship between plants and animals

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