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Curriculum

PPCD Grade 3
  • Walking tour through ecosystems & 5 senses
  • Water Cycle-evaporation, condensation, precipitation & temperatures
  • Plants-plant parts, leaf shapes & seed dispersal
  • Ecosystems-forest & wetland comparisons
Kindergarten Grade 4
  • Walking tour through ecosystem & 5 senses
  • Plant-seeds & plant parts
  • Plant and animal adaptations
  • Ecosystems & Soil-habitat, niche, producer, consumers, decomposer, soil & temperatures comparisons
Grade 1 Grade 5
  • Weather-temperatures, cloud demo & observations
  • Living things-living vs. non-living, plants & animals
  • Insects-parts, classification & collecting
  • Plants-monocot/dicot, roots, tree rings, bark & leaf rubbings
  • Weather instruments/Water cycle
  • Ecosystems-habitat, niche & limiting factors
  • Erosion & Runoff-soil and erosion labs
  • Metric measurements in science
Grade 2 Grade 6
  • Insects-life cycles & insect anatomy
  • Plants-seed parts, leaf & seed comparison, leaf measurement & leaf rubbing
  • Habitats-prairie land, forest & wetland comparisons
  • Ecology- using microscopes with pond water, ecosystem & temperature comparisons (wetland, forest and prairie), insect collecting & food chain