Students explore animals and how their basic needs are met through interactions with living and nonliving things in the environment. Students investigate the structures and processes of animals and identify likenesses between adult and their offspring.
Students plant seeds and explore basic needs as they care for their plants. Students learn about the parts of the plant (structure) and role of the parts (function) in the life cycle of a plant. To make connections to their everyday life, students explore common foods and identify them as specific parts of plants. Students identify the likenesses between adult plants and young plants as physical characteristics.
In this unit, students explore the properties of matter. Students use the Engineering Design Process to design and create a variety of systems to investigate how objects move and solve problems. They develop spatial awareness by identifying location of objects in relation to other objects. By observing and describing the properties and patterns of objects, students explore how energy, force, and motion are related to their everyday life.
In this unit students will explore properties of Earth materials in order to understand their importance in the natural world. Students apply geographic concepts of location and physical and human characteristics of place. Through explorations of Earth materials students will be able to compare them based on their properties. By observing our natural world on a daily basis, students will find recognizable patterns among objects in the sky. Students will observe and describe weather changes from day to day and over seasons, and how characteristics of weather, landforms, and bodies of water affect people.