General Overview by Grade Level (Scope and Sequence):
Kindergarten: Life Science: Comparing Animals; the Senses; Trees; Wood; Earth Science: Daily Weather Log.
Comparing Animals Kinder Lab:
First Grade: Life Science: Changes as Animals and Plants Grow; Physical Science: Comparing and Measuring Using Metric System; Solids, Liquids, Gas (Changes of State in Matter); Earth Science: Weather and Seasons
Second Grade: Physical Science: Forces, Motion, and Magnets: Gravity, Friction, etc.; Life Science: Life Cycles of Animals: Butterfly, Grasshopper, Frog and Mouse; Soils; Plants: Seed Cycles, Flowers’ basic parts, Fruits’ basic parts; Earth Science: Rocks and Minerals and Weathering
Third Grade: Physical Science: Energy Forms: Chemical, Electrical, Light, Motion, and Thermal; Introduction to Matter through the Periodic Table; Chemical Changes of Matter; Life Science: Ecosystems-Adaptations; Earth Science: Solar System
Fourth Grade: Physical Science: Electric Circuits; Earth Science: Rocks and Minerals
Fifth Grade: Physical Science: Chemical and Physical changes of matter; Magnets and Motors; Earth Science: Stars and Constellations; Life Science: Human Body; Use of microscope observing plant and animal cells
Sixth Grade: Earth Science: Landforms; Physical Science: Forces and Energy; Life Science: Food Chains; Photosynthesis
7th Grade: Life Science: Cells-Mitosis and Meiosis; Use Microscope and Lab Equipment; Genetics; Adaptations; Scientific Processes: Metric System, Lunar Cycle and Constellations; Chemical Changes; Ecosystems; Human Systems: Study the 11 Body Systems
8th Grade: The Periodic Table: Elements; The Changing Earth-Weathering, Sea Floor Spreading, The Ring of Fire
9th Grade: Biology
10th Grade: Health and Nutrition
11th Grade: Physics/Chemistry
12th Grade: Physiology/Marine Science
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