New subject matrix

New subject matrix


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Proposed teaching materials for Kindergarten
Outline


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Proposed teaching materials for 1st grade
Outline

Life Sciences -
Unit 1: Let's search for flowers; Let's look for sprouts; Let's find fruits; Let's collect leaves and fruits of trees. Alloted time: 8 months
Unit 2: Let's search for insects. Alloted time: 5 months

Physical Sciences -
Unit 3: Let's make toys that move with the wind; Let's make wind. Alloted time: 2 weeks
Unit 4: Let's make toys with rubber bands. Alloted time: 2 weeks
Unit 5: Let's search for magnetic things. Alloted time: 2 weeks
Unit 6: Let's play with shadows. Alloted time: 2 weeks

Earth Sciences -
Unit 7: Let's make a river with rain water. Alloted time: 1 week (rainy days only)
Unit 8: Let's collect stones (What kind of places can we find stones?; What kind of games can we make with stones?; Riverbank stones - What kind of stones can we find in riverbank?). Alloted time: 2 weeks

Skills and Scientific Attitudes -
Communicating; observing; manipulating objects

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Proposed teaching materials for 2nd grade
Outline

Life Sciences -
Unit 1: Let's sow flowers; The flower blossom; Let's collect seeds; Let's grow rapeseed (Brassica napus). Alloted time: 8 months
Unit 2: Let's search for creatures in water and in soil; Let's keep insects (Let's search for insects in the bush). Alloted time: 5 months

Physical Sciences -
Unit 3: Let's gather air. Alloted time: 2 weeks
Unit 4: Let's dissolve things with water (includes soap bubbles making). Alloted time: 1 month
Unit 5: Let's make sound (air; telephone). Alloted time: 2 weeks
Unit 6: Let's make toys with weights. Alloted time: 2 weeks
Unit 7: Let's turn on minilight bulbs (electric circuits). Alloted time: 1 month

Earth Sciences -
Unit 8: Let's search for sunlight and shade. Alloted time: 2 weeks
Unit 9: Let's play with sand and soil. Alloted time: 2 weeks

Skills and Scientific Attitudes -
Observation card; communicating; comparing


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Proposed teaching materials for 3rd grade
Outline

Life Sciences -
Unit 1: The rapeseed (Brassica napus) flower; Flower dissection; Parts of flower (petal; pistil; stamen; polen; calyx; nectary);
Unit 2: The warmness of soil, water, and air
Unit 3: Growing sponge cucumber; the sponde cucumber's fruit
Unit 4: Insects

Physical Sciences -
Unit 5: The power of wind and the wind car
Unit 6: Gathering sunlight; sunlight and temperature; sunlight and lens
Unit 7: The properties of air
Unit 8: The properties of a magnet; magnetization; compass

Earth Sciences -
Unit 9: Sun, clouds and temperature


Skills and Scientific Attitudes -
Observation card; portfolio; measuring

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Proposed teaching materials for 4th grade
Outline

Life Sciences -
Unit 1: Planting potato; starch; verifying the presence of starch in potato; microscopy: looking for starch in cells; influence of sunlight on growth; investigating the presence of starch in leaf
Unit 2: Raising butterflies; observing insects on the microscope; insect body parts

Physical Sciences -
Unit 3: Temperature, air and water; water physical properties; water vapor; boiling water; ice making; physical state changes; clouds and rain
Unit 4: Balance and weights
Unit 5: Batery and minilight bulb; electric circuits; switch; electric current

Earth Sciences -
Unit 6: The properties of the flowing water; erosion
Unit 7: The sun and the moon; sun and moon observation

Skills and Scientific Attitudes -
Controlling variables