Amherst Public Schools – Pelham Elementary School

Curriculum Overview

 

        Subject: SCIENCE                                                                                                                    Grade Level: KINDERGARTEN

 

Themes

Units

Skills

Essential Activities

Technology/Engineering

·          materials and manufacturing

Physical Sciences 

·          composition, structure and properties of matter

 

 

Life Science

·          diversity, complexity of life on earth

·          adaptations of organisms

·          life cycles and  reproduction

 

 

Physical Sciences 

·          composition, structure and properties of matter

Technology/Engineering

·          materials and manufacturing

·          technological design

 

WOOD

 

 

 

 

 

BUTTERFLY LIFE CYCLE

 

 

 

FLOAT AND SINK

·         cooperate and communicate in the practice of scientific inquiry

·         demonstrate awareness of safety and of appropriate behavior

·         sort and classify objects

·         observe and record observations

·         make meaningful predictions

·         collect data

·         organize data on graphs and charts

·         form meaningful conclusions

·         recognize the need to support conclusions with scientific evidence

 

F.O.S.S.: Wood curriculum.

Live caterpillar observation