Science, Grade 1

Unit 1: Scientific Skills and Inquiry

The hands-on doing of science in Grade 1 - measuring with everyday things, making simple picture graphs, and building an object to solve a problem.

• Measuring and building with tools
• Timing how long things take
• Measuring how long things are

• Making picture graphs
• Building something to solve a problem

Unit 2: Characteristics and Needs of Living Things

What living things are like, what they need to stay alive, and how people and animals depend on the world around them.

• Words for living things
• Parts of the human body
• How humans and animals are alike
• What makes each person special

• Plants come in many forms
• How living things are the same inside
• Living things have needs
• Caring for a pet or plant

• How people and animals meet their needs
• We depend on the world around us
• Designing a home for a Manitoba animal
• Jobs that need to know living things

• Plans for a healthy environment
• Being gentle with living things
• Real science or make-believe?

Unit 3: The Senses

The five senses - sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch - the body parts that sense the world, and how our senses keep us safe.

• Words for the senses
• The five senses and their body parts
• Sorting things with our senses

• Parts that protect the eye
• Sensitive fingertips
• The outside of the ear
• Smelling safely

• Parts of the nose
• How we taste
• Keeping our senses safe

• Changing how things seem
• When senses help and when they trick us
• Helpers for our senses
• We sense things differently
• Senses in jobs and hobbies

Unit 4: Characteristics of Objects and Materials

The objects around us, what they are made of, how to choose and join materials, and how to reduce, reuse, and recycle.

• Words for objects and materials
• Describing materials by feel and look
• The object and its material
• What familiar objects are made of

• Finding what materials can do
• The same material, similar jobs
• Testing which material is best
• The best object for a task

• Ways to join materials
• Building a useful object
• Reduce, reuse, recycle

Unit 5: Daily and Seasonal Changes

How the Sun, day and night, shadows, and the four seasons change over time, and how people, plants, and animals get ready for those changes.

• Words for changes over time
• The Sun gives light and heat
• Day time and night time
• How shadows are made

• Putting events in order
• How the Sun seems to move
• Temperature through the day
• Living things through the day

• Comparing the seasons
• Getting ready for the seasons
• People who help with the seasons
• How buildings keep us comfortable

• Dressing for each season
• Staying safe in the weather
• Activities in any season
• How Manitoba plants and animals change
• Building to help a Manitoba animal