Kindergarten Science
6 units matched to the New Brunswick Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Literacies and Communications: Communicative Practices. Examine how language learning is beneficial.
- Literacies and Communications: Multimodal Literacies. Refer to environmental print in multiple languages.
- Literacies and Communications: Literate Identities. Demonstrate being a reader, writer, and communicator in multiple languages.
- Well-Being: Emotional Health and Positive Identities. Explore activities that foster enjoyment and well-being.
- Well-Being: Belonging and Interconnectedness. Define and express needs, wants, and choices.
- Well-Being: Physical Health and Active Participation. Analyze personal safety and healthy practices.
- Play and Playfulness: Imagination and Creativity. Practise using flexible and fluid thinking in new and familiar situations.
- Play and Playfulness: Exploration and Problem Solving. Negotiate, compromise, and work together.
- Play and Playfulness: Play and Inquiry. Engage in activities that introduce elements of risk, novelty, and the unknown.
- Diversity and Social Responsibility: Inclusiveness and Equity. Honour differences and uniqueness.
- Diversity and Social Responsibility: Democratic Practices. Act as responsible and responsive community members.
- Diversity and Social Responsibility: Sustainable Futures. Recognize patterns in nature.
Units
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.
Skill descriptor: Well-Being: Belonging and Interconnectedness · what plants and animals need, and how living things are connected to us
Unit 2
Animal Features
Noticing body parts like fur, feathers, fins and shells, and how features help animals and plants live where they do.
Skill descriptor: Diversity and Social Responsibility: Sustainable Futures · noticing patterns in the features of animals and plants
Unit 3
Weather & Seasons
Dressing for the weather, the four seasons in order, day and night, and how plants and animals change with the seasons.
Skill descriptor: Diversity and Social Responsibility: Sustainable Futures · recognizing patterns in weather and the seasons
Unit 4
Materials
Describing everyday materials (soft or hard, rough or smooth, bendy or stiff), what sinks or floats, and naming what things are made of, like wood, metal, glass and cloth.
Skill descriptor: Play and Playfulness: Exploration and Problem Solving · gathering evidence about materials by looking, touching and testing
Unit 5
Push & Pull
Telling pushes from pulls, and seeing how a bigger push, an object's shape and its weight change how it moves.
Skill descriptor: Play and Playfulness: Exploration and Problem Solving · gathering evidence about how pushes and pulls move things
Unit 6
Safe Scientists
Safety rules for exploring and playing, such as wearing a helmet, telling a grown-up after a bump to the head, and never tasting science materials.
Skill descriptor: Well-Being: Physical Health and Active Participation · safe ways to explore and test
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