Newfoundland and Labrador

Exploring our World

• Demonstrating Curiosity and Wonder

  • 1 demonstrate curiosity and wonder

    • Long and short (K-C.1)
    • Light and heavy (K-C.2)
    • Hot and cold (K-C.3)
    • Fast and slow (K-C.4)
    • The ways things move (K-D.3)
    • How do animals use their body parts? (K-E.2)

  • 2 explore, investigate, and solve problems

    • Investigate pushes and pulls (K-D.2)
    • Design a race car track (K-L.1)

• Initiating Science Inquiry and Problem Solving

  • 3 pose questions that lead to exploration and investigation

  • 4 identify problems to be solved

• Planning and Carrying out Science Inquiry and Problem Solving

  • 5 select and use materials to carry out their own explorations and investigations

    • Design a race car track (K-L.1)

  • 6 explore ways to use tools

• Making Observations

  • 7 make observations

    • Classify objects by two-dimensional shape (K-A.1)
    • Classify objects by three-dimensional shape (K-A.3)
    • Classify objects by colour (K-A.5)
    • Classify objects by texture (K-B.1)
    • Classify objects by material (K-B.3)
    • Classify objects by shape, colour, material and texture (K-B.5)
    • Describe objects (K-B.6)
    • The five senses (K-E.8)

  • 8 develop vocabulary and use language to bring meaning to observations

    • Classify objects by two-dimensional shape (K-A.1)
    • Classify objects by three-dimensional shape (K-A.3)
    • Classify objects by colour (K-A.5)
    • Classify objects by texture (K-B.1)
    • Classify objects by material (K-B.3)
    • Classify objects by shape, colour, material and texture (K-B.5)
    • Describe objects (K-B.6)
    • Long and short (K-C.1)
    • Light and heavy (K-C.2)
    • Hot and cold (K-C.3)
    • Fast and slow (K-C.4)
    • Push and pull (K-D.1)
    • Investigate pushes and pulls (K-D.2)
    • The ways things move (K-D.3)
    • Identify plant parts (K-F.2)
    • Identify what plant parts do (K-F.3)
    • Earth materials: water, rocks and soil (K-I.1)
    • Classify rocks and minerals (K-I.2)
    • Describe the weather (K-J.1)
    • Types of precipitation (K-J.2)
    • Weather patterns (K-J.3)
    • Severe weather: blizzards (K-J.4)

• Identifying Pattern and Order

  • 9 detect consistency and pattern in objects and events

    • Weather patterns (K-J.3)
    • The daytime sky (K-K.1)
    • The night sky (K-K.2)

  • 10 sequence or group materials and objects

    • Sort objects by two-dimensional shape (K-A.2)
    • Sort objects by three-dimensional shape (K-A.4)
    • Sort objects by colour (K-A.6)
    • Sort objects by texture (K-B.2)
    • Sort objects by material (K-B.4)
    • Identify plant parts (K-F.2)
    • Identify plants and animals (K-G.1)
    • Compare plants and animals (K)

• Communicating and Collaborating

  • 11 explore and select different ways to represent ideas, actions, and experiences and to communicate with others

  • 12 communicate while exploring and investigating