Kindergarten to Grade 2 · printable course

Science Explorations: Kindergarten to Grade 2

Kindergarten to Grade 2 · 95 pages · 36 lessons · PDF, print at home

Real science for the youngest scientists, done with ice cubes, ramps, seeds and the actual sky, not a screen. Each week hands the parent a short scripted exploration (kitchen-table materials, exact words to say, what to listen for), and the app's only job is the five-minute check-in afterward, where Clara asks what happened out loud and your child answers by tapping. Weather and seasons, pushes and pulls, living things and their places, materials, sound, and two build-test-fix engineering weeks, the full NGSS K-2 span, at the pace of a five-to-seven-year-old's attention. A year-long adopted-tree study runs through the whole course.

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Every unit and lesson in this book, in order. The same lessons are taught online at lettersanddevotion.com, so a family can move between paper and screen.

Science Explorations: Kindergarten to Grade 2

36 lessons · try a lesson online free

Unit 1: Weather, Sky and Seasons9 lessons
  1. 1.What is the weather doing today?
  2. 2.The wind you cannot see
  3. 3.Sun, shade and warm things
  4. 4.Shadow shapes
  5. 5.Rain, puddles and where water goes
  6. 6.Hot days, cold days, and dressing for them
  7. 7.Season watch: one tree, all year
  8. 8.Storms and staying safe
  9. 9.Weather station week (review)
Unit 2: Pushes, Pulls and Things That Move9 lessons
  1. 10.Push it, pull it
  2. 11.Hard push, soft push
  3. 12.Ramps and racing
  4. 13.Crash! Changing direction
  5. 14.The tug-of-war week (balanced pulls)
  6. 15.Sunlight and dark places (light as energy)
  7. 16.Tree check #2 + motion review
  8. 17.Make it move without touching it
  9. 18.Build a ball run (engineering week)
Unit 3: Living Things and Their Places8 lessons
  1. 19.Alive or not alive?
  2. 20.What do living things need?
  3. 21.Body parts with jobs
  4. 22.Babies and their parents
  5. 23.Where animals live and why
  6. 24.Plants make more plants (seeds travel)
  7. 25.Tree check #3 + living things review
  8. 26.Being a scientist outdoors (unit capstone)
Unit 4: Stuff and What It Does10 lessons
  1. 27.The great material sort
  2. 28.Why is a window glass and a pillow soft?
  3. 29.Water's three costumes
  4. 30.Changes you cannot undo
  5. 31.Sound is a shake
  6. 32.Loud, quiet, high, low
  7. 33.Build an instrument (engineering week #2)
  8. 34.Tree check #4: the year in four pictures
  9. 35.The big review safari
  10. 36.Question fair (capstone)