Kindergarten
Kindergarten Science
6 units and 30 learning lessons. This is the outline a Kindergarten student works through in Science — the lessons themselves are taught inside OHM School, adapted to how each child is doing.
About this outline: the listed lessons are part of the available learning path. A lesson appearing here does not mean its standards mapping or assessment evidence has completed educator review. See the evidence and review methodology.
Kindergarten Science
OHM School · Kindergarten
Science
6 units · 30 lessons
It opens with Pushes and Pulls and closes with Observing Matter.
All units
All units
Lessons
Unit 1 of 6
Pushes and Pulls
6 lessons
Lessons
- 1Push or Pull?
- 2Strong and Gentle Pushes
- 3How Force Changes Motion
- 4Changing Direction
- 5Designing a Ramp or Bumper
- 6Did Our Design Work?
Unit 2 of 6
Sunlight and Warmth
4 lessons
Lessons
- 1Sunlight Warms the Earth
- 2Sunny and Shady Spots
- 3Building a Shade Structure
- 4Testing Our Shade
Unit 3 of 6
Weather Patterns
6 lessons
Lessons
- 1Types of Weather
- 2Daily Weather Journal
- 3Weather Patterns Over Time
- 4Seasons
- 5Why We Forecast Weather
- 6Staying Safe in Severe Weather
Unit 4 of 6
Plant and Animal Structures
6 lessons
Lessons
- 1Parts of a Plant
- 2What Plants Need to Grow
- 3What Animals Need to Live
- 4What Living Things Eat
- 5Animal Body Coverings
- 6Animal Needs and Habitats
Unit 5 of 6
Living Things and Their Environment
5 lessons
Lessons
- 1Where Living Things Live
- 2Animals Change Their Environment
- 3People Change the Land
- 4Caring for Our Environment
- 5Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Unit 6 of 6
Observing Matter
3 lessons
Lessons
- 1Describing Objects by Properties
- 2Solids and Liquids
- 3Sink or Float
How it is taught
The whole subject, in the order a child meets it.
- What is covered6 units and 30 lessons, every one of them in the book above: this is the whole of Science in Kindergarten, not a sample.
- Taught in orderA lesson unlocks when the one before it is mastered, and review is scheduled from what the child has actually shown rather than on a fixed timetable.
- Kept currentThese titles are read from the live curriculum, so what is in this book is what a Kindergarten student would work through today.
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