Science

Unit 1

• Weather and climate patterns and predictions
• Climate variations
• Natural hazards resulting from natural processes
• Life cycles of plants and animals
• Plant and animal adaptation and survival
• Plant and animal behaviors
• Learned and inherited traits of living things

Unit 2

• Variations of inherited traits
• Relationships between traits of organisms and their survival
• Influence of environment on plant and animal traits
• Relationships in an ecosystem
• Effects of environmental changes on organisms in the environment
• Animal behavior and social interactions
• Evidence of extinct plant and animals

Unit 3

• Biodiversity
• Physical properties of matter (size, shape, weight, volume, flexibility, luster, color, texture, hardness, odor, etc.)
• Forms of energy (heat, sound, chemical, mechanical, and electrical)
• Heat release and transfer
• Energy transformations (such as heat to light)
• Interactions of matter and energy
• Sound (pitch, vibrations, volume) and how sound travels

Unit 4

• Sizes and kinds of forces, including gravity
• Relationships between force and motion
• Effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on an object
• Patterns and measurements of an object’s motion
• Electric or magnetic interactions between objects not in contact with each other
• Simple machines