Science

Unit 1

• History of planet Earth
• Changes in Earth and Earth’s surface (slow and fast)
• Changes caused by wind and water
• Ideas about ways to slow or prevent changes from wind and water
• Roles, descriptions, and locations of water (including ice) on Earth’s surface

Unit 2

• Formation, properties, components, and types of soil
• Physical properties and classifications of rocks
• Biodiversity of living things in any region
• Plant needs, parts, functions, and structures
• Plant growth and pollination

Unit 3

• Plant reproduction
• Inherited traits in plants
• Plant life cycles and life spans
• Plant responses to environment
• Different states of matter: solid, liquid, gas

Unit 4

• Description and classification of matter by observable properties
• Effects of temperature on matter
• Changes in states of matter
• Relative positions of objects
• Forces: push and pull
• Relationships between force and motion
• Characteristics and effects of gravity