Curriculum Connection
K-5 Science and/or Social Studies -March 2021
Kindergarten Science
Habitats
Students will learn living things need water, air, and resources from the land, and they live in places that have the things they need. Students will use models to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and places they live.
In this activity, students choose one animal/plant, draws its habitat, and labels how it is meeting its survival needs (food, shelter, water, and air for animal or food, water, and air for a plant.
Students will build a terrarium for an insect in order to observe how different types of habitats meet the needs of plants and animals.
1st Grade Science
Parts of Plants
Students learn plants have different parts (roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits) that help them survive and grow. The shape and stability of structures of natural and designed objects are related to their function.
Students observe various vegetables, seeds, and fruits and they identify and describe their different parts.
Students look at how inventors and engineers have studied helpful plant parts and figured out ways to help humans solve problems too.
Students will use scientific knowledge they gained about plant parts as well as 21st Century Skills of collaboration to design and construct an item that will help people.
Parts of Animals
Students will learn all animals have external parts. Different animals use their body parts in different ways to see, hear, grasp objects, protect themselves, move from place to place, and seek, find, and take in food, water, and air.
Students identify external body parts of animals and investigate how each feature is used by animals to move, eat, or survive in their habitat.
Students will investigate the body parts of animals and how those body parts help animals see, hear, grasp objects, protect themselves, move from place to place, and see, find, and take in food, water, and air. This Explore activity consists of five stations that will be completed over several days.
Students look at how inventors and engineers have studied these helpful animal parts and have figured out ways to help humans solve problems too.
2nd Grade Social Studies
In this unit, students will read and construct maps with a title and key and identify examples of different regions. Children will compare the cultural characteristics of regions in the state and explain how geography affects the way people live today. Children will also study and compare the culture and population in our community across multiple time periods. The main focus of this unit will be to have students compare and contrast the past and present habitats, resources, art, and daily lives of Native American people within the US and Missouri.
3rd Grade Science: Unit 3- Earth and Space
Weather and Climate
Explore 1: Conditions in US Cities
- How are weather conditions for cities in different areas of the United States alike and different?
Explore 2: Weather or Climate?
- What is the difference between weather and climate?
Explore 3: Meteorologist for a Week
- What are the responsibilities of a meteorologist?
Explore 4: Climate
- How do the climates in Singapore and Washington, D.C. compare?
Process and Impact of Natural Hazards
Explore 1: A Tale of Two Houses
- How can natural hazards affect our homes?
Explore 2: Rising Expectations
- How can we protect New Orleans from rising water?
4th Grade Social Studies and Science
Social Studies Unit 4: Effects of the American Revolution (A New Nation)
Overview of Unit : In this unit, students will learn what factors influenced conflicts of the past and of the present. With support, students will analyze the text of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution including the Bill of Rights. Additionally, students will explain the significance of national symbols during this time period, including the Statue of Liberty, bald eagle, Confederate flag, American flag, National Anthem and Liberty Bell.
Essential Questions:
● How did our founding documents shape our nation, resolve conflicts, and establish citizens’ rights?
Enduring Understanding/Big Ideas :
● I can determine the key ideas in the Declaration of Independence including inalienable rights, government by the consent of the governed, and the redress of grievances.
● I can determine the key ideas in the U.S. Constitution including limited government, rule of law, majority rules, minority rights, separation of powers, checks and balances, and popular sovereignty.
● I can explain the purpose of the Bill of Rights and identify some of the basic rights and freedoms.
● I can identify and explain the importance of national symbols.
Science Unit 3: Physical Science: Part 2: Motion Waves
What occurs when rocks are thrown into still water?
Do 1: Disturbing Water
Students drop different objects into a tub of water and make observations.
Do 2: Motion in the Ocean
Students observe what happens to the sand when waves show movement in the ocean.
5th Grade Social Studies
Social Studies Unit 3: Changes in the United States as a Result of Economic Factors
Essential Questions:
● How have economic factors influenced change in the United States?
● How does scarcity, supply and demand, opportunity costs, income, labor, wages and other economic concepts affect our nation’s past, present, and future?
Enduring Understanding/Big Ideas:
● Identify political, economic, and social causes and consequences of the Great Depression
● Explain the factors, past and present, that influence changes in regional economies.
Jennifer Wiley
Email: wileyj@parkhill.k12.mo.us
Website: www.parkhill.k12.mo.us
Location: 7703 Northwest Barry Road, Kansas City, MO, USA
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Kim Fette
Email: fettek@parkhill.k12.mo.us
Website: parkhill.k12.mo.us
Location: 7703 Northwest Barry Road, Kansas City, MO, USA
Phone: 816-359-5750
Twitter: @kimElemCoach