🔬 Kindergarten Science

Units

1. Unit 1

   🌱What Living Things Need

   Telling living from non-living things, and what plants and animals need to live: food, water, air, shelter and sunlight.

   Learning standard: K.L2U1.8; K.L1U1.6 · the differences between living and non-living things, and what plants and animals need

2. Unit 2

   🌦️Weather & Seasons

   Dressing for the weather, the four seasons in order, day and night, and how plants and animals change with the seasons.

   Learning standard: K.E1U1.3; K.E1U1.4 · observing weather, and how seasonal weather patterns affect plants, animals and people

3. Unit 3

   ⛈️Stormy Weather

   Practices what weather forecasts are for and how families get ready for, and stay safe in, storms, wind, snow, heat and floods.

   Learning standard: K.E1U1.3 · weather data and preparing for severe weather

4. Unit 4

   🌤️Sky & Seasons

   Day and night, the sun, moon and stars (the moon reflects sunlight), and the order of the seasons.

   Learning standard: K.E2U1.5 · patterns in how the sun, moon and stars move across the sky

5. Unit 5

   💡Light & Sound

   Sources of light and sound, loud and quiet, high and low sounds, shadows, and how light passes through glass but not walls.

   Learning standard: K.P2U1.1 · how our senses detect light, sound and vibration, even from far away

6. Unit 6

   🐻Animal Survival

   Body features (thick fur, webbed feet, shells, camouflage) and behaviors (hibernating, migrating, storing food) that help animals survive.

   Learning standard: K.L1U1.6; K.L1U1.7 · how plants and animals use their body parts and special structures to survive

7. Unit 7

   ☀️Sun & Shade

   Practices noticing that sunlight warms the ground, water, sand and objects, and choosing ways to make shade to keep a place cooler.

   Learning standard: K.E1U1.3 · sunlight warming Earth's surface, and temperature as weather data