Science

Tundra Plant Adaptations

Predict how objects will change direction with different forces

Introduction to composting

Groundhog Day

Matter conserved after physical/chemical changes

How plant structures help them survive and reproduce

Materials best suited for a task: Absorbency

How animals sense and respond to information

Autumn Nature Walk

How matter can be arranged in different ways

Materials best suited for a task: Texture

Water plant adaptations

Rainforest plant adaptations

Sharks!

Match 3 different seeds to adult plants

Seed dispersal and plant pollination

Plant cells

Materials best suited for a task: Hardness test

Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Mixtures

How to prepare for severe weather

Locate and describe the oceans

Materials best suited for a task: Flexibility test

How young animals are alike and unlike their parents

Behavior between parents & offspring that help offspring survive

Materials best suited for a task: Sort materials by their strength

How waves travel

Develop a model of waves

Predict how objects will change direction with a push or pull

The Rock Cycle

Types of rocks

Classify objects by their observable properties

Pollution and waste management

Global warming

The Water Cycle

Why animals form groups

Animals' teeth

Differences between climate and weather

Learning to save water

Mimicry in nature

Wildfires

Planets and other objects in space

Conductors and insulators

Sunlight and shade at different times of the day

Inherited traits of organisms

Inherited and acquired traits

Design shelter to protect an animal from the sun

Camouflage

Build to reduce the warming effect of sunlight on an area

Experiments in electromagnetism

Types of habitats

Reducing human impact on Earth’s systems

How are renewable resources used as energy?

Pollution

Deforestation

Understand human Impact on Earth's systems

Overfishing

Composting

Moon phases

Human Impacts on Earth's Systems

Producers, consumers, and decomposers

Landslides

Potential and kinetic energy

Life cycle of a butterfly

How shadows change during the course of the day

Light and shadows

Cactus adaptations

Learning our community's recycling rules

Metamorphosis: Frog

Metamorphosis: Mosquito

Metamorphosis: Butterfly

How Earth's rotation causes day and night

Changing a push or pull and change in motion

Different climates in different regions of the world

The Muscular System

Introduction to simple machines

Effect of sunlight on the Earth's surface

Observe and describe the sun and stars

The excretory system

What causes the seasons?

Effect of sunlight on water

Comparing animals: guinea pigs & rabbits, turtles & crabs, etc.

Describe the Earth's surface

Interaction of waves

The Circulatory System (6-8)

Weathering and erosion

pH scale

Acids and bases

Extinct and endangered animals

How an animal uses its body parts to get what it needs

Wildfires

Tsunamis

Preparing for volcanic eruptions

Fossils

Thermal energy during a chemical reaction

Stored energy transforming into kinetic energy

Where different kinds of plants grow

Where different kinds of animals live

Comparing animals: birds & bats, zebras & lions, cats & mice

What animals need to live

Parts of a plant

Life cycle of a frog

What is light?

Observations to describe weather patterns

How young plants are alike and unlike their parents

Classification of animal groups

Characteristics of fish

Characteristics of Amphibians

Characteristics of mammals

Characteristics of birds

How people change their environment

What can and cannot be recycled

Hurricanes

Tornadoes

Avalanches

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Practicing how to save electricity

Learning how to save electricity

Practicing how to save water

Learning how to save plastic

Comparing needs of plants & animals to the needs of humans

Desert habitats

Forests and grasslands

Organization of cells

Mixtures and solutions

Water habitats

How cooling and heating affect matter

Introduction to cells

Eukaryotic cells

Essential characteristics of life

Basics of chemical bonding

Plant life cycle

The skeletal system

Law of conservation of mass

Reading the periodic table of elements

Elements, compounds, and mixtures

Vision

Characteristics of insects

Characteristics of reptiles

How animals change their environments

How plants change their environment

Covalent and ionic bonds

Protons, neutrons, and electrons

Practicing how to save plastic

Plant structures

Renewable and Nonrenewable resources

What plants need to live

What animals eat: Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores

Man-made objects obtained from natural resources

Introduction to natural resources

How weather affects daily life

Summer

Living and nonliving things

Spring

Nutrition

Describe matter

Reversible and irreversible changes

Practicing how to save paper

Learning how to save paper

Solar system patterns

Properties of waves

Introduction to waves

Introduction to electricity

Introduction to magnets

The brain

Your Skin

The respiratory system

The life cycle and metamorphosis

Rainforest plants

Why do animals hibernate?

Conservation of energy

The circulatory system

Why is washing my hands important?

Our friend, the dentist

Rainforest animals

Habitats: Rainforest

Potential energy

Kinetic energy

The digestive system

How does my nose work?

Light it up!

Chemical reactions

Exploring the world of sounds

Winter

Volcanic landforms and geothermal activity

States of volcanoes and hazards they pose

Introduction to volcanoes

Engineering with The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

Chemical equations

Chemical formulas

Dinosaurs

Introduction to forces

Traits best suited for an environment

Newton's Second Law of Motion

Introduction to programming

Newton's First Law of Motion

Why do we need a tongue?

Changes in energy when objects collide

Gravity and motion: Projectile motion

The states of matter (6-8)

Gravity and motion

Newton's Third Law of Motion

Introduction to gravity

The scientific method

Animal adaptations

Four seasons

Introduction to the atom: Structure

Fall/Autumn

Changing states of matter

STEM - Simple machines

Physical and chemical properties

Balanced and unbalanced forces

How to classify objects

Properties of solids, liquids, and gases

Density