Moody School Science Units 2016-2017
SEPT: Weather & Seasons
daily data, changes & impact
OCT: Fall
movement & changes
ESS2-4: Use simple instruments to collect and record data on PS2-1: Using evidence, discuss ideas about what is making
elements of daily weather (ie: sun/clouds/wind/snow/rain & something move the way it does and how some movements
higher/lower temp).
can be controlled.
ESS2-5: Describe how local weather changes from day to day PS2-2: Through experience, develop awareness of factors
and over seasons. Recognize patterns in changes.
that influence that whether things stand or fall.
ESS2-6: Provide examples of the impact of weather on living
things.
NOV: Farm
animal needs & living vs non-living things
ESS3-1: Discuss/ask questions about local resources that
humans use to meet their needs.
LS1-1: Compare body parts of animals/humans and plants
and explain observable body parts.
LS2-1: Using evidence from animals and plants to define
characterstics of living things vs non-living things.
LS2-2: Using evidence from local environment, explain how
plants/animals meet their needs where they live.
LS3-1: Use observations to explain that young plants and
animals are like but not exactly like their parents.
DEC: Me & My Family
all about me, family, 5 senses
LS3-2: Use observations to recognize differences and
similarities among themselves and their friends.
LS1-3: Use their five senses in their exploration and play to
gather information.
JAN: Winter
melting & freezing
PS1-1: Raise questions and investigate the difference
between liquids and solids and develop awareness that a
liquid can become a solid and viceversa.
PS1-4: Recognize through investigation that physical objects
and materials can change under different circumstances.
FEB: Bears & Hibernation
shadows & animals
LS1-2: Explain that most animals have five senses they use to
gather information about the world around them.
PS4-2: Connect daily experience/investigations to
demonstrate the relationships between the size/shape of
shadows, the objects creating them & the light source.
LS2-1: Using evidence from animals and plants to define
characterstics of living things vs non-living things.
MARCH: My Community
sounds, sun/moon, properties, characteristics
PS1-2: Investigate natural/human made objects to describe,
compare, sort and classify based on physical characterstics,
uses and if it is made/occurs in nature.
APRIL: Spring
habitats, water, environment
MAY: Life Cycles
animals instincts & meeting needs
ESS2-1: Raise questions and engage in discussions about how LS1-1: Compare body parts of animals/humans and plants
different types of local environments (including water)
and explain observable body parts.
provide homes for different kinds of living things.
LS2-2: Using evidence from local environment, explain how
PS1-3: Differentiate between the properties of an object and
plants/animals meet their needs where they live.
those of the material of which it is made.
ESS2-2: Observe and classify non-living materials, natural and
PS4-1: Investigate sounds made and discuss what is causing human made and their local environment.
LS2-3: Give examples from the local environment of how
them. Through play, identify ways to change objects that
animals and plants are dependent on one another to meet
ESS2-3: Explore and describe different places water is found
make sound to change volume/pitch.
their basic needs.
in the local environment.
ESS1-1: Show awareness that the moon can be seen in both
day & night and the different shapes of the moon.
ESS3-2: Observe and discuss the impact of people's activities
on the local environment.
ESS1-2: Observe and use evidence to describe that the sun is
in different places in the sky during the day.