Kindergarten Science
13 units matched to the Alabama Course of Study.
Focus areas
- Pushes and pulls, plants and animals and their needs, weather and the sun's warmth
- Science and engineering practices: observing, sorting and asking questions
- Engineering design: solving real problems in Alabama and beyond
Units
Unit 1
Push & Pull
Telling pushes from pulls, and seeing how a bigger push, an object's shape and its weight change how it moves.
Content standard: K.1 · how pushes and pulls of different strengths and directions change how far, how fast and which way things move
Unit 2
Make It Work
Practices the first steps of engineering: noticing a problem to fix, seeing how an object's shape helps it do its job, and comparing two designs after a test.
Content standard: K.2 · testing whether a design pushes hard enough to change how an object moves
Unit 3
What Living Things Need
Telling living from non-living things, and what plants and animals need to live: food, water, air, shelter and sunlight.
Content standard: K.3; K.4 · telling living from nonliving things, and what plants and animals need to survive
Unit 4
Living Things
Sorting living and non-living things, telling plants from animals, and what living things need to grow.
Content standard: K.3 · sorting living and nonliving things by what they can do
Unit 5
What Living Things Need
The six basic needs of living things (air, water, food, heat, shelter and space) and how plants, animals and people help each other.
Content standard: K.4 · the air, water, food and light that plants and animals, including people, need
Unit 6
From Seed to Plant
Practices the simple plant life cycle (seed, seedling, plant, flower, fruit) and noticing that young plants look like the plant they came from.
Content standard: K.4 · how a plant grows from a seed when it gets water, warmth and light
Unit 7
Natural or Made
On a walk, point out natural things (trees, rocks, water) and things people made (benches, roads). Ask your child to wonder about what they see.
Content standard: K.5 · how animals such as beavers change their surroundings to meet their needs
Unit 8
Where Animals Live
Practices matching plants and animals to places that meet their needs, and noticing how animals and people change their surroundings to get what they need.
Content standard: K.5; K.6 · where animals live, and how they make homes and depend on the plants around them
Unit 9
Sun & Shade
Practices noticing that sunlight warms the ground, water, sand and objects, and choosing ways to make shade to keep a place cooler.
Content standard: K.7; K.8 · how sunlight warms Earth's surface, and building shade to block it
Unit 10
Weather & Seasons
Dressing for the weather, the four seasons in order, day and night, and how plants and animals change with the seasons.
Content standard: K.9 · observing and describing local weather patterns over time
Unit 11
Four Seasons
Practices describing each of the four seasons: the weather, what people wear and do, and what plants and animals do.
Content standard: K.9 · weather patterns through the four seasons
Unit 12
Stormy Weather
Practices what weather forecasts are for and how families get ready for, and stay safe in, storms, wind, snow, heat and floods.
Content standard: K.10 · using weather forecasts to make plans and get ready for severe weather
Unit 13
Care for Our Earth
Show how your family reuses and recycles. Spend time outside, and talk about taking only what you need and leaving nature as you found it.
Content standard: K.11 · ways people can lessen their impact on the land, water and living things nearby
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