🔬 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-LS1-1 · patterns in what plants and animals, including people, need to survive

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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