Science 1

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Big Ideas

Grandes idées

Living things have features and behaviours that help them survive in their environment

Sample questions to support inquiry with students:
- How do local plants and animals depend on their environment?
- How do plants and animals use their features to respond to stimuli in their environments?
- How do plants and animals adapt when their basic needs are not being met?

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Matter is useful because of its properties

Sample questions to support inquiry with students:
- What makes the properties of matter useful?
- How do the properties of materials help connect to the function of materials?

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Light and sound can be produced and their properties can be changed

Sample questions to support inquiry with students:
- How can you explore the properties of light and sound?
- What discoveries did you make?

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Observable patterns and cycles occur in the local sky and landscape

Sample questions to support inquiry with students:
- What kinds of patterns in the sky and landscape are you aware of?
- How do patterns and cycles in the sky and landscape affect living things?

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Curricular Competencies

Students are expected to be able to do the following:

Questioning and predicting

Form and function: Form and function refer to something being designed, structured or shaped in a way that will help it perform a certain function or functions. For example, the fins of fish help them propel themselves through the water. The human skeleton provides protection for organs, and support for muscles, and allows people to stand upright. Science recognizes this important relationship between form and function.

Key questions about form and function:
- What structural features of plants and animals in your local environment help those plants and animals to function well?
- How do the properties of natural materials (e.g., wood) help determine useful functions for the materials?

Demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world

Observe objects and events in familiar contexts

Ask questions about familiar objects and events

Make simple predictions about familiar objects and events

Planning and conducting

Make and record observations

Safely manipulate materials to test ideas and predictions

Make and record simple measurements using informal or non-standard methods

Processing and analyzing data and information

Experience and interpret the local environment

Recognize First Peoples stories (including oral and written narratives), songs, and art, as ways to share knowledge

Sort and classify data and information using drawings, pictographs and provided tables

Compare observations with predictions through discussion

Identify simple patterns and connections

Evaluating

Compare observations with those of others

Consider some environmental consequences of their actions

Applying and innovating

Take part in caring for self, family, classroom and school through personal approaches

Transfer and apply learning to new situations

Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving

Communicating

Communicate observations and ideas using oral or written language, drawing, or role-play

Express and reflect on personal experiences of place

place

Place is any environment, locality, or context with which people interact to learn, create memory, reflect on history, connect with culture, and establish identity. The connection between people and place is foundational to First Peoples perspectives of the world.

Key questions about place:
- What is place?
- What are some ways in which people experience place?
- How can you gain a sense of place in your local environment?
- How can you share your observations and ideas about living things in your local environment to help someone else learn about place?

Content

Students are expected to know the following:

classification

Is it living or non-living? Is it a plant, animal or something else?
differences between conventional scientific and indigenous ways of classifying

of living and non-living things

names

e.g., common, indigenous and scientific

of local plants and animals

structural features

How do stems, roots, leaves, skeleton or no skeleton or exoskeleton, lots of legs, few legs, eyes, etc. help us understand organisms?

of living things in the local environment

behavioural adaptations

dormancy, hibernation, nesting, migration, catching food, camouflage (stick bugs), mimicry (fly that looks like bee), territorialism (squirrels fighting), etc.

of animals in the local environment

specific properties

solids keep shape; liquids and gases flow
properties of local materials determine use by First Peoples (local examples: cedar for canoes, mountain goat horns used as spoons, etc.)

of materials allow us to use them in different ways

natural and artificial sources of light

sources of light

natural sources include the sun; artificial sources include light bulbs

and sound

sound

natural sources include crickets; artificial sources include car horns

properties of light

examples: brightness, colour
objects are made visible by radiating their own light or being illuminated by reflected light
interactions of light with different objects create images and shadows
light interactions can make plants grow, make shadows, or cause sunburn, depending on the source and location (seasons depend on light from the sun and how spread out the sun’s rays are)
plants grow toward light

and sound

sound

examples: pitch, tone, volume
ways of making, recording, and transmitting sound, etc.

depend on their source and the objects with which they interact

common objects in the sky

the appearance of the moon and stars at night
sunrise/set, moonrise/set
the sun and the moon are important in different cultures, with respect to customs and traditions

the knowledge of First Peoples

shared First Peoples knowledge of the sky
local First Peoples
local First Peoples
e.g., may include oral history with Elder—origins and local stories
knowledge of the local landscape, plants and animals
local First Peoples understanding and use of seasonal rounds
seasonal rounds
Seasonal rounds refers to a pattern of movement from one resource-gathering area to another in a cycle that is followed each year

local patterns

the relationship of local weather to the four seasons in terms of temperature, cloud cover, precipitation, and wind

that occur on Earth and in the sky

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