Nova Scotia

Earth and Space Science

• Learners will analyse daily and seasonal change in the environment.

  • Investigate the effect of weather on the environment and on living things

    • The daytime sky (1-N.1)

  • Investigate the effect of seasons on the environment and on living things

  • Compare weather observed in seasons

    • Weather patterns (1-M.4)

  • Investigate weather and seasonal preparedness

    • Describe the weather (1-M.1)
    • Types of precipitation (1-M.3)
    • Severe weather: blizzards (1-M.5)
    • Severe weather: tornadoes (1-M.6)
    • Severe weather: hurricanes (1-M.7)

  • Investigate the interconnectiveness of living things and seasonal cycles

Life Science

• Learners will analyse interconnectiveness of living things and the environment.

  • Investigate the needs of living things

    • What do animals need to survive? (1-G.1)
    • What do plants need to survive? (1-H.1)

  • Classify living things

    • Identify types of plants (1-H.5)
    • Identify plants and animals (1-I.2)
    • Compare plants and animals (1-I.3)

  • Investigate living things within the environment, inclusive of a Mi'kmaw perspective

    • How do animals use their body parts? (1-G.2)
    • Where do dromedary camels and polar bears live? (1-G.5)
    • Where do giraffes and beavers live? (1-G.6)
    • Where do whale sharks and tree frogs live? (1-G.7)
    • Identify plant parts (1-H.2)
    • Where do water lilies and saguaros live? (1-H.6)
    • Where do bearberries and powdery strap air plants live? (1-H.7)
    • Where do turtle grass and giant sequoias live? (1-H.8)
    • How do living things change their environments to meet their needs? (1-J.1)
    • How do gray squirrels change the forest to meet their needs? (1-J.2)

  • Investigate personal actions that can contribute to a healthy environment

    • Reduce, reuse, recycle (1-L.1)

Physical Science

• Learners will construct a device in response to a problem.

  • Investigate materials and their properties

    • Classify objects by material (1-A.3)
    • Sort objects by material (1-A.4)

  • Investigate change in properties of materials

    • Changes caused by heating and cooling (1-D.1)
    • Change-of-state diagrams: solid and liquid (2-C.2)
    • Change-of-state diagrams: liquid and gas (2-C.3)
    • Change-of-state diagrams: solid, liquid and gas (2-C.4)
    • Heating, cooling and changes of state: melting and freezing (2-C.5)
    • Heating, cooling and changes of state: evaporating and condensing (2-C.6)

  • Evaluate materials used in device construction

  • Investigate how recycled materials can be used differently in the construction of devices