This document outlines the science units and topics that will be covered each term for students in early childhood education through 6th grade classes. In the first term, topics include parts of the body, insects, colors, bones and the skeleton, and using tally charts and bar graphs. The second term will focus on plants, animals, the five senses, weather, important scientists, how fruits grow, food and nutrition, gardening, and the solar system. The third term expands on plants and introduces mammals, the water cycle, food chains, magnetism, and how fruit grows.

1. SCIENCE / I do and I understand/ EscolaMisericòrdia
SCIENCE UNITS 2012- 2014
TERM Ed. Infantil 1st
class 2n class 3rd
class 4th
class 5th
class 6th
class
1st
Term
My body: Face Body parts The Scientific
Method
Insects
colours
Body animals Bones:
The skeleton
(Frankenstein)
Tally charts and
bar graph
2nd
Term
Plants:
Introduction
Animals:
We are birds!
Falcon and
eagles
Five senses Weather
(Part1)
Important
people from
science
Plants: How
fruits grows
Food
Healthy and
not healthy
Our vegetable
garden!!!
It’s compost
time!
Weather
(Part1)
Our Solar
System
3rd
Term
Plants:
extension
Mammals
Wheat to flour
I wild life park
Water Cycle Food chain
What animals
eat?
The most
incredible facts
about the world
How does fruit
grow?
Magnetisme