Grade 1 Science
6 units matched to the New Brunswick Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Literacies and Communications: Communicative Practices. Examine how language learning is beneficial.
- Literacies and Communications: Multimodal Literacies. Refer to environmental print in multiple languages.
- Literacies and Communications: Literate Identities. Demonstrate being a reader, writer, and communicator in multiple languages.
- Well-Being: Emotional Health and Positive Identities. Explore activities that foster enjoyment and well-being.
- Well-Being: Belonging and Interconnectedness. Define and express needs, wants, and choices.
- Well-Being: Physical Health and Active Participation. Analyze personal safety and healthy practices.
- Play and Playfulness: Imagination and Creativity. Practise using flexible and fluid thinking in new and familiar situations.
- Play and Playfulness: Exploration and Problem Solving. Negotiate, compromise, and work together.
- Play and Playfulness: Play and Inquiry. Engage in activities that introduce elements of risk, novelty, and the unknown.
- Diversity and Social Responsibility: Inclusiveness and Equity. Honour differences and uniqueness.
- Diversity and Social Responsibility: Democratic Practices. Act as responsible and responsive community members.
- Diversity and Social Responsibility: Sustainable Futures. Recognize patterns in nature.
Units
Unit 1
Living Things
Sorting living and non-living things, telling plants from animals, and what living things need to grow.
Skill descriptor: Diversity and Social Responsibility: Sustainable Futures · noticing patterns in living and non-living things
Unit 2
What Living Things Need
The six basic needs of living things (air, water, food, heat, shelter and space) and how plants, animals and people help each other.
Skill descriptor: Well-Being: Belonging and Interconnectedness · what living things need and how they help one another
Unit 3
Animal Survival
Body features (thick fur, webbed feet, shells, camouflage) and behaviours (hibernating, migrating, storing food) that help animals survive.
Skill descriptor: Diversity and Social Responsibility: Sustainable Futures · how animals' features and behaviours help them survive
Unit 4
Sky & Seasons
Day and night, the sun, moon and stars (the moon reflects sunlight), and the order of the seasons.
Skill descriptor: Diversity and Social Responsibility: Sustainable Futures · recognizing patterns in the sky and the seasons
Unit 5
Materials
Describing materials (hard, soft, see-through, waterproof) and choosing the best material for a job, like a raincoat or a window.
Skill descriptor: Play and Playfulness: Exploration and Problem Solving · gathering evidence about the properties of materials
Unit 6
Light & Sound
Sources of light and sound, loud and quiet, high and low sounds, shadows, and how light passes through glass but not walls.
Skill descriptor: Play and Playfulness: Exploration and Problem Solving · gathering evidence about light and sound
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