Science Curriculum

Pre-Kindergarten

The Five Senses

Life Cycle of an Apple

The Water Cycle

Life Cycle of a Pumpkin

Animals that Hibernate

Habitats

Mammals

Kindergarten

What is a Scientist?

Weather and Climate

Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Animals, Plants, and Their Environment

Forces and Interactions

First Grade

Scientific Observations: The Scientific Method

Properties of Matter

Waves: Light and Sound 

Space Systems

Earth’s Surface

Structure, Function, and Information Processing

 Second Grade

The Scientific Method

Structure and Properties of Matter

Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems

Habitats

Earth’s Systems

Third Grade

Scientists and Scientific Processes

Forces and Interactions

Inherited Traits and Life Cycles

Weather and Climate

Habitats, Adaptations, and Survival 

Fourth Grade

Scientific Processes/The Scientific Method

Energy

Waves: Waves and Information

Plants and Animals/Internal and External Structures

Earth's Systems: Processes that Shape the Earth