Elementary Science Curriculum (Grades K-5)
Inspire Science
Inspire Science is designed to help spark students’ curiosity and empower them to ask more questions, think more critically, and generate innovative ideas. Students bring solutions to everyday challenges through inquiry-based, hands-on investigations of real-world phenomena.
Inspire Science is built with the proven 5E instructional framework that provides an in-depth, collaborative, evidence-based, and project-based learning experience to help you put your K–12 Science students on the path to career and college readiness.
Kindergarten:
Weather
Plants and Animals
Impacts on Earth’s Systems
Protecting Our Earth
Grade 1:
Use Energy to Communicate
Plants & Animals
Offspring & Their Parents
Earth & Space
Grade 2:
Earth’s Surface
Earth’s Surface Changes
Living Things in Habitats
Plants & Their Needs
Grade 3:
Weather & Climate
Parents & Offspring Survival
Changes in Ecosystems
Learn from the Past
Grade 4:
Structures of Living Things
Wave Patterns and Information Transfer
Patterns of Earth’s Changing Features
Natural Hazards
Energy from Natural Resources
Grade 5:
Plant & Animal Needs
Matter in Ecosystems
Interactions of Earth’s Major Systems
The Solar System & Beyond