Science

Investigations

Skills:

• Describes objects using vocabulary that represents the five senses.
• Makes observations of actions/changes over time using descriptive language.
• Documents their ovservations with pictures, written words and verbal communication.
• Makes predictions of events.
• Asks questions about the objects and events observed.
• Views themselves as scientists.

Water

Skills:

• Describes how water behaves in a variety of situations.
• Demonstrates the use of tools to move water.
• Describes objects that float and those that sink.

Concepts:

• Water exists in all areas of people’s environment.
• Liquid water, ice, snow, clouds, and water vapor are all forms of water.
• Some objects sink in water and some float.
• Ice floats in water.
• Water takes up more space when it freezes.
• Some materials mix with water, other materials do not.
• Some materials absorb water well, other materials absorb water poorly.
• Animals and plants cannot survive without water.

Habitats

Skills:

• States that characteristics of living and non-living things.
• Explains what living organisms need to survive.
• Describe ways that organisms are adapted to their environment.

Conecpts:

• Living things: obtain and use energy, grow and develop, reproduce, respond and adapt to their environment. Non-living things do not have all of the above characteristics.
• Habitats provide food and shelter for animals.
• Animals and plants adapt to the habitats they live in.
• Habitats change with the seasonal change.