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Science Units & Curriculum for grades Kindergarten - 8
GRADE K
Units:
Plants (trees, pumpkins, apples, flowers)
Water properties
The five senses
Ocean life
Night/day
Sunshine/ shadows
Understanding simple properties of common natural, manufactured and earth material and objects
- Students will identify and describe properties of objects.
- Students will sort common materials and object by texture, size, color, shape, sources.
- Students will describe what and how humans utilize their environment.
Units:
Plants (apples, pumpkins, trees, flowers)
Spiders
Insects
Oviparous/viviparous animals
Ocean animals
Understanding characteristics of living organisms:
- Students will identify observable characteristics of living organisms.
- Students will ask questions about organisms and events in the environment
Units:
Plants (apples, pumpkins, trees, flowers)
Spiders
Insects
Heart
Pond life
Ocean life
Transportation
Understand that things and organisms are made of parts that go together
- Students will identify the parts of objects, organisms and materials.
- Students will conduct simple investigations following safety rules, and recording and reporting on
the investigation.
GRADE 1
Unit:
Force
Motion
Understand the position and motion of common objects.
Know that a push or a pull is a force on an object but some forces can act without touching an object.
Know that pushes and pulls can change the motion of common objects.
Understand that things are made of parts that go together.
- Student will demonstrate the things can move in different ways.
- Student will describe that the way to change how something is moving is to give it a push or a pull.
- Student will observe and show that objects fall toward the ground because of the
pull of Earth's gravity.
- Students will observe and show that magnets can make some objects move without touching the object.
- Student will describe how the parts of objects, organisms, and materials go together.
- Student will sort objects based on component parts.
Units: Health
Body
Know the external parts of the body
- Student will identify the external parts of the body.
- Student will draw and name the external parts of the body.
Units: Weather
Know the common weather indicators and understand that weather conditions change from season to season.
Know daily changes of the position of the sun.
- Student observes, measures, and records weather conditions, noting changes and patterns from day to day over the seasons.
- Student name common weather conditions.
- Student observes and records the sun in positions in the sky during the day.
Units: Living Things
Know that most living thing need food, water and air.
Know that plants and animals need a place to live.
- Student observes and records that most living thing need food, water and air.
- Student observes and record demonstrates that plants need light.
- Student observes and shows how organisms live in specific places.
- Student describes how animals depend on plants or other animals for food.
- Student describes how animals depend on plants or other animals for shelter.
GRADE 2
Units:
Properties of Matter
Rocks and soil
Environmental awareness
Understanding simple properties of common natural, manufactured and earth materials and objects
- The students will sort common objects by simple properties.
- The students will identify and describe the differences between common natural and manufactured materials and objects
Units:
Rocks and soil
Environmental awareness
Understands physical properties of Earth materials
Know that water can exist in different states: solid, liquid, gas
- The student will illustrate and tell about the properties of water as a solid and liquid.
- The students will explain how some Earth materials are used by living things.
Units:
Rocks and soil
Know that fossils provide evidence of pant and animals that existed long ago
- The student will identify a fossil in a rock.
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The student will compare fossils with similar living organism.
Units:
Plant life cycle
Understand characteristics of living organisms.
- The students will observe and describe characteristics of living organisms.
Units:
Force and motion
Understand how things are made of parts that go together
Know that common materials are made of smaller parts.
- The students will construct simple devices to do common tasks using common materials and explain how the parts depend on each other.
Units:
All Units
Understand how to ask question about objects, organisms and events in the environment.
Understand how to plan and conduct simple investigations following all safety rules.
Understand how to record and report investigation results.
Understand how problems can be solved
- The student will ask questions about objects, organisms and events based on observations of the natural world.
- The students will make predictions of the results of an investigation
- The student will plan and conduct an observational investigation that collects information about characteristics or properties.
- The student will collect data using simple equipment and tools using safety rules.
GRADE 3
Units:
Magnets
Solar System
Understands the relative position and motion of objects
-The student will measure and describe the position of one object relative to another object using positional language.
Units:
Solar System
Understand the behavior of sound in terms of vibrations and pitch and the behavior of light in terms of bouncing off, passion through, and changed in direction
- The student will explain that when an object vibrates the object may produce sound that people can hear.
- The students will explain the relationship between the pitch and the vibration causing the sound.
- The student will describe experiences with sounds.
- The student will experience, measure and describe the motion of light as it bounces off of passes through an object.
Units:
Solar System
Plants
Understand physical properties of Earth materials.
- The student will describe and sort rocks and soil based on physical properties.
Analyze how the parts of a system go together and how these parts depend on each other.
- The student will identify the parts and function of a system.
- The student will identify land masses, bodies of water, and landforms on a globe or map.
Units:
Plants
Understand that organisms can be single cell or many cells that form parts with different functions.
Understand that living things need constant energy and matter.
- The student will observe with a microscope and record that living things are made mostly of cells.
- The students will describe how plant and anima cells are similar and different.
- The student will describe the function of a part of a living thing.
- The student will identify sources of energy and matter used by plants.
Understand the life cycle of plants and animals and differences between inherited and acquired characteristics.
- The student will observe and describe the life cycle of a plant of animal.
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The student will describe that the young of plants and animals grow to resemble their parents and identify those characteristics.
Units:
Magnets
Changes
Understand forces in terms of strength and direction.
Understand that force can change the motion of common objects
- The student will describe a force that is acting on an object in terms of strength and direction.
- The student will measure the force acting on an object.
Units:
Solar System
Understand weather indicators and understand how water cycles through the atmosphere.
- The students will observe, measure, and describe weather indicators notice changes and patterns of change over each season and a year.
Units:
All Units
Understand how to ask questions and make reports about objects, organisms, and events in the environment.
Understand how to plan and conduct investigations following all safety rules.
Understand how to construct a reasonable explanation using evidence.
- The student will identify the question being answered in an investigation.
- The student will make predictions of the results of an investigation.
- The student will generate a scientific conclusion and make a report using supporting data from the investigation.
GRADE 5
Topics Overview
Descriptions from December 14, 2008 Revised Washington State K-12 Science Standards
Overview: In fifth grade, students become more sophisticated in their analysis of the interconnections within systems. When investigating, students use data to support their conclusions and logical arguments. They begin to determine factors that contribute to scientific bias.
Essential Question: How does our investigative process lead to new questions about the flow of matter and energy within a system? (key concept for 5th grade Science)
Investigative Skills: Data analysis, inquiry skills, detecting scientific bias
EALR 1 - Analyze a system in terms of subsystems and larger, more inclusive systems.
Students learn that systems contain smaller sub-systems, and that systems are also parts of larger systems. Students learn about inputs and outputs, and how to predict what may happen to a system if the system's inputs are changed. The concept of a hierarchy of systems provides a conceptual bridge for students to see the connections between mechanical systems (ie, cities), and natural systems (ecosystems).
EALR 2 - Plan different kinds of investigations, including field studies, systematic observations, models, and controlled experiments.
Students can also collect, display, and interpret data; summarize results; draw conclusions; and communicate their findings. Students are aware that scientific explanations emphasize evidence, involve logical arguments, and are consistent with scientific principles and theories.
EALR 3 - Work individually and collaboratively to design and produce a product to solve a problem.
Note: EALR's 1, 2, and 3 are taught throughout the domains in EALR 4 as part of experiments and observations.
EALR 4 - Domains of Science:
Physical Science
Forces, Motion, and Energy
Students build on their intuitive understanding of energy and learn how heat, light, sound, and electrical energy are generated and can be transferred from place to place. For example, they learn that motion can be transferred from one object to another, they learn how heat is generated and than it is transferred from warmer to cooler places, and they learn how sound is generated by vibration. They will see that electricity can transform into many different forms such as light, heat, sound, and motion.
Topics/Performance Expectations
- Forces and Motion/PS1A, PS1B
Energy / PS3B, PS3C, PS3E
GRADE 7
Introduction to Physical Chemistry
- Students will learn about the atomic model and the various subatomic structures involved in making chemical bonds.
- Students will also learn the procedures and content of writing a laboratory report.
Weekly experiments will help guide students in the inquiry process of using the scientific method:
1. Observing/stating a problem
2. Gathering information
3. Constructing a hypothesis
4. Testing the hypothesis
5. Observing/data collection
6. Making concluding remarks and discussions questions
Planetary Science
Our Nine Planets unit is an investigation into the nine(opps...I mean eight) planets of our solar system. Our astronomy learning will include constellations, comets, asteroids, and other near space objects. The study of astronomy is a natural time to introduce Greek Mythology and as a result students will learn many Greek & Latin roots/stems. Culmination of this unit includes a PowerPoint presentation on a near space object of the students choosing. Throughout this unit students will be immersed in the use of our technological resources at Sager.
Physics - Newton's Laws
Students will work hands-on with experiments that deal with Isaac Newton's laws of motion. Building gravity cars and balloon racers are a few labs through which students will grapple with these laws of motion.
Life Science - Microbiology
The micro worlds around us our fascinating, if only we knew about them. From the bacteria in food and to the microorganisms crawling on your skin, there are worlds of micro critters all around us. Students will learn the common characteristics of all living things, and learn the specific functions of various cellular organelles.
History and Evolution of the Earth
Students will understand how fossils and other evidence are used to document life and environmental changes over time.
Ecosystems
Students will explore the interconnectedness of ecosystems. Our learning will focus on how systems influence each other, matter flows through, and interactions between two or more simple systems.
GRADE 8
Earth Science - Earth Materials
Throughout this unit, students will study both rocks and minerals. When studying rocks, students will learn about sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks. Students will then describe the rocks' formation, classification, uses, composition, location, and other facts. When studying minerals, students will focus on five common minerals and their identifying characteristics, uses, locations found, composition, formation, and other facts.
Earth Processes
Throughout this unit, students will study five different constructive and/or destructive earth processes including plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciers, and other erosion forces. These processes will be analyzed as to how they are destructive or constructive, external or internal, and chemical or mechanical. Students will compare these five processes using examples and other facts.
Hydrosphere/Atmosphere
Throughout this unit students must explain the causes of atmospheric circulation and oceanic currents and how these currents influence the atmosphere in terms of weather and climate. Furthermore, students must explain the effect the water cycle has on weather. Finally, students must compare and contrast weather and climate. A highlight of this unit is the study of hurricanes.
Physical Science - Energy
Throughout this unit, students will study five different forms of energy: thermal, nuclear, light, electrical, and mechanical energy. Students will describe the properties, uses, transformations, and other facts about these forms of energy.
Waves
Throughout this unit, students will study five different types of waves: water, sound, visible electromagnetic waves, invisible electromagnetic waves, and gravitational waves. Students will describe the properties, behaviors, uses, dangers, and other facts about these types of waves.
Life Science- Cells and Heredity
Throughout this unit, students will study about mitosis and meiosis. They will describe and compare sexual and asexual life cycles of plants and animals. Students will also study about heredity and explain how physical characteristics of living things can be affected by genetic information.
Human Body
Throughout this unit, students will study five different body systems including the digestive, circulatory, respiratory, excretory and nervous systems. Students will then describe the function of each system as well as the organs and parts of each system. Further more, students will show how each system is related and compare each system with other organisms' systems. Finally, students will describe any problems associated with each system and other facts.
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