Nova Scotia

Life Science

• Learners will compare living things through the senses.

  • Investigate living and nonliving things

    • The five senses (K-E.8)
    • Identify living and nonliving things (K)

  • Investigate change in living things

    • Compare young living things to their parents (K-E.3)
    • Match animals to their parents (K-E.4)
    • Match plants to their parents (K-F.4)

  • Classify living things

    • Compare plants and animals (K)

Physical Science

• Learners will investigate sand and water through the senses.

  • Investigate the properties of sand and water

  • Investigate floating and sinking

  • Investigate capacity of various containers to hold sand and water

  • Investigate how water interacts with a variety of materials

• Learners will investigate materials through the senses.

  • Investigate properties of materials

    • 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)
    • Describe objects (K-B.6)
    • Hot and cold (K-C.3)
    • What objects can a magnet pull? (K)

  • Investigate classification of materials

    • 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)

  • Investigate change in materials

    • Changes caused by heating and cooling (1-D.1)

• Learners will test movement of objects.

  • Investigate types of movement

    • 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)

  • Test properties of objects that affect sliding and rolling

  • Test properties of ramps that affect movement

    • Design a race car track (K-L.1)

  • Investigate balance