Unit 1 – Plants
This unit discusses the parts of plants, plants' need for water, how different seeds look and work, plants that
have flowers and plants that do not, plant adaptations for woodlands, prairies, deserts, and marshes, and how plant parts can
be used to grow a complete plant.
Unit 2 – Animals
This unit covers animals with backbones – including mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and fish – and animals
without backbones. Live insects are displayed and described, and classification is introduced.
Unit 3 – Food Chains and Life Cycles
This unit discusses the concept of producers and consumers, food chains in grasslands and oceans, how plants and animals
help each other and how yeast makes bread rise. Life cycles are also explained, with examples of Monarch Butterflies,
the American Robin, the Red-footed Tortoise, and Bean Plants.
Unit 4 – Earth's Resources
This unit discusses natural resources such as rocks, soil, and plants. It explores how earth changes and
how people can protect the earth. It also covers fossils, dinosaurs, and erosion.
Unit 5 – Weather and Seasons
This unit discusses different kinds of weather, including the four seasons, thunderstorms, tornadoes,
and hurricanes, as well as unusual weather events and the water cycle.
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Unit 6 – Matter
This unit discusses the properties and states of matter, how matter changes and can be mixed and separated,
how temperature can change matter, and how chemical reactions work.
Unit 7 – Energy
This unit discusses solar energy, heat energy, and light energy, etc, as well as how light can be
changed, as well as shadows and electricity.
Unit 8 – Forces, Motion, and Sound
This unit discusses force, motion, and work, gravity, simple machines, magnets, and sound.
Unit 9 – Space
This unit discusses the sun, the way earth's rotation creates day and night, how the seasons change,
the moon and the planets in our solar system. Also covered are the stars, the constellations, shooting
stars, space rocks, and space exploration.
Unit 10 – Technology
This unit discusses what technology is and how it can help us in transportation, in health, communication,
meteorology, robotics, and energy.
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