Kindergarten Science
6 units matched to the Prince Edward Island Curriculum.
Learning focus
- Exploring the World Using Our Senses.
Units
Unit 1
My Five Senses
Take a sensory walk and name what you see, hear, smell and feel. Sort household objects by how they feel, such as rough and smooth.
Curriculum outcome: Exploring the World Using Our Senses · using the five senses to describe objects, and matching each sense to its body part
Unit 2
Be a Scientist
Asking a science question, predicting, observing with the senses, picking a tool such as a ruler or magnifying glass, and telling what was found out.
Curriculum outcome: Exploring the World Using Our Senses · observing with the senses, asking a question, predicting and telling what was found out
Unit 3
Materials
Describing everyday materials (soft or hard, rough or smooth, bendy or stiff), what sinks or floats, and naming what things are made of, like wood, metal, glass and cloth.
Curriculum outcome: Exploring the World Using Our Senses · describing materials as soft, hard, rough, smooth or see-through
Unit 4
Sense Words
Builds the words children use to describe what they notice with their senses. Your child matches describing words to sights, sounds, smells, tastes and textures.
Curriculum outcome: Exploring the World Using Our Senses · using describing words for what we see, hear, smell, taste and touch
Unit 5
Senses Help Us
Your child uses clues from the five senses to name everyday things, and talks about how seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching help keep us safe.
Curriculum outcome: Exploring the World Using Our Senses · using the senses to identify objects, notice changes and stay safe
Unit 6
What Do You Hear?
Your child uses the sense of hearing: matching sounds to animals and things, and telling loud from soft and high from low.
Curriculum outcome: Exploring the World Using Our Senses · using the sense of hearing to identify sounds and describe them as loud, soft, high or low
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