Science 1

Unit 1: Living and Non-Living Things

Big Idea: living things have features and behaviours that help them survive in their environment. Sorting living from non-living, naming the plants and animals nearby, looking closely at their parts, and noticing how animals act.

• Sorting living and non-living things

• Naming plants and animals nearby

• Parts that help living things

• Things animals do to survive

Unit 2: Materials and Their Uses

Big Idea: matter is useful because of its properties — for Grade 1, noticing that every material has its own properties, and that is why we pick certain materials for certain jobs.

• Materials are good at different jobs

Unit 3: Light and Sound

Big Idea: light and sound can be produced and their properties can be changed. Finding where light and sound come from, and noticing how they change when they hit or pass through different things.

• Natural and made light and sound

• What happens when light and sound hit things

Unit 4: Sky, Seasons, and First Peoples Knowledge

Big Idea: observable patterns and cycles occur in the local sky and landscape. Naming the things we see in the sky, learning First Peoples knowledge of the sky and landscape, and noticing the patterns that repeat on Earth and in the sky.

• Naming things in the sky

• What local First Peoples know and share

• Patterns that repeat