Kindergarten Science
8 units matched to the Oregon State Standards.
Focus areas
- Pushes and pulls
- Weather and climate
- What plants and animals need
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.
Learning standard: K.LS1.1 · patterns in what plants and animals, including people, need to survive
Unit 2
Push & Pull
Telling pushes from pulls, and seeing how a bigger push, an object's shape and its weight change how it moves.
Learning standard: K.PS2.1; K.PS2.2 · how pushes and pulls of different strengths and directions change how things move
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.
Learning standard: K.ESS2.1 · observing local weather and describing its patterns over time
Unit 4
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.
Learning standard: K.ESS3.3 · ways people can reduce their impact on the land, water, air and living things nearby
Unit 5
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.PS3.1; K.PS3.2 · sunlight warms Earth's surface, and shade can reduce that warming
Unit 6
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.ESS3.2 · why we forecast weather and how we prepare for severe weather
Unit 7
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.
Learning standard: K.ESS3.1; K.ESS2.2 · living things live where their needs are met, and they change the places they live
Unit 8
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.
Learning standard: K.ETS1.1; K.ETS1.2; K.ETS1.3 · noticing a problem to solve, how an object's shape helps it work, and comparing two designs
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