How Does Science Companion Work in Connecticut?
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Alignments and Correlations
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• Science Companion & Connecticut
• Connecticut State Scope and Sequence
• Detailed Connecticut Alignment
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Why Science Companion?
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• What’s Unique about Science Companion?
• Science Companion Overview and Research Summary
• Parallels with Everyday Mathematics®
• Correlations with Engineering is Elementary®
• Full Science Companion Curriculum List
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Find Out More About the Modules in your State Scope & Sequence!
Early Childhood
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Early Science Explorations
From making a collage of the leaves and seeds they find to constructing a lever from rocks and wood, children are introduced to the wonders of science and scientific exploration. With 7 studies in one book: Growing and Changing; Class Pet; Collections from Nature; Constructions; Dirt, Sand and Water; Sky and Weather; and My Body.
Weather
One day students learn to use a thermometer to record temperature, another day they measure rainfall or investigate the nature of ice. Throughout the year, students use their senses as well as scientific tools to discover that weather is a dynamic and sometimes unpredictable part of nature.
Animal Homes Design Projects
Children note the materials the animal used to make the home, guess how the animal made the home, and think about how the home meets that animal’s needs. Choosing an animal, they design,build, and construct a home for that animal. They reflect on the materials they used and what they might do differently with different materials.
Grade 1
Motion
Through activities that engage children’s bodies and minds, children move their own bodies in various ways to learn about motion, as well as build ramps, roll toy cars, drop and crash marbles, slide pennies and shoes, and even fly paper airplanes.
Collecting and Examining Life
From collecting animal tracks to dissecting flowers, children deepen their understanding of what makes something alive, and of the similarities and differences among living things.
Our Solar System
One day children chart the moon’s cycles, another day they might make a scale model of our solar system. By observing the world around them, they address questions such as “Why are there seasons?” and “Why does the moon appear to change shape?”
Grade 2
Solids, Liquids and Gases
While deciding what makes a solid a solid, watching water disappear from an open cup, or comparing various liquids, children find the value in asking questions and probing the world around them for meaningful answers.
Life Cycles
From watching a pea sprout to feeding apples to butterflies, children closely study four organisms, including humans, to observe the remarkable growth and change that living things experience during their life spans.
Soils
From closely observing soil components and their properties to discovering the importance of earthworms in soil, children use their senses of sight, smell, and touch to explore the wonders of soil.
Grade 3
Matter
From exploring the properties of solids, liquids, and gases, to seeing what they can learn about an unknown substance called “Whatzit,” students experience firsthand the excitement of scientific discovery and gain an appreciation of the scientific method employed by scientists everywhere.
Habitats
From going on a nature walk to dissecting owl pellets, children are asked to think about how organisms (plants, animals, fungi, and microscopic living things) survive in the places they live, and how they interact with other living things.
Rocks
One day children examine fossils, another day they might test minerals. As children collect, examine, describe, and experiment with rocks, minerals and fossils, they hone their observation skills and begin to unravel the puzzle of what rocks are and how they are formed.
Grade 4
Electrical Circuits
Whether exploring static charges, figuring out how to get a light bulb to light, or testing the conductivity of everyday objects, students experience firsthand the excitement of scientific discovery.
Magnets
From testing what sort of everyday objects are attracted to magnets to comparing the strength of different magnets, children deepen their observation skills while learning about the nature of magnets.
Nature’s Recyclers
From watching composting worms create soil, to modeling the nutrient cycle, students have the opportunity to use their investigations to understand the organisms that carry out the process of decomposition and recycle nutrients in an ecosystem.
Watery Earth
Whether following a drop of water through the water cycle, measuring their own water usage, or exploring how filters clean dirty water, students are encouraged to use what they learn about water to make choices and take actions in their own life to have a positive impact on water resources.
Force and Motion COMING SOON!
By demonstrating and explaining ways that forces cause actions and reactions, as well as gaining a deeper understanding of basic forces such as friction and gravity, students discover the many ways that forces affect the motion of objects around them.
Grade 5
Sound
Whether making water ripple with a tuning fork or building their own musical instruments, children explore the world around them to investigate the sounds that permeate their lives.
Light
Whether watching light “bend” a pencil in water or building a periscope, the combination of hands-on, multi-sensory learning enables children to understand what light is, how it behaves, and why it makes sight possible.
Our Solar System
One day children chart the moon’s cycles, another day they might make a scale model of our solar system. By observing the world around them, they address questions such as “Why are there seasons?” and “Why does the moon appear to change shape?”
Grade 7
Human Body in Motion
By modeling how muscles move bones at joints, testing their reflexes, and measuring the effects of exercise on breathing and heart rate, students begin to appreciate the complex interactions and dependencies that exist between body parts and recognize the importance of protecting them by making healthy choices.
Earth’s Changing Surface
From building river models that explore erosion and deposition to touring the school grounds looking for evidence of the earth’s changing surface, students will use hands-on investigations to discover for themselves the dynamic nature of the earth’s surface.
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