Kindergarten and 1st Grade Science Curriculum Printable + Digital Slides

The Empowering Little Citizens Kindergarten Science Curriculum includes everything you need for a meaningful science block in Kindergarten (and first grade too)! Science digital teaching slides are also included for a less prep teaching option.

These units are not marked with a grade level so you are not limited to Kindergarten use. While designed with Kindergarten science in mind, these units would also work well as a 1st grade science curriculum.

What is included in each science unit:

• Science lessons with full lesson plans
• Original nonfiction books
• Science digital teaching sides for PowerPoint™ and Google Slides™
• Student science worksheets + printables
• Science vocabulary cards
• Activities and experiments
• Anchor charts and posters
• End of unit assessment

Science units included:

• Unit 1: I Am A Scientist + My Five Senses
• Unit 2: Force and Motion - Pushes and Pulls + Simple Machines
• Unit 3: The Earth
• Unit 4: Seasons and The Weather
• Unit 5: Living Things + Plants
• Unit 6: Animals + Life Cycles
• Unit 7: Outer Space

BONUS science units to be included:

These units are not part of the main curriculum but can be added in as desired.

• Bonus unit 1: Apples
• Bonus unit 2: Pumpkins
• Bonus unit 3: Polar Animals
• Bonus unit 4: Ocean Animals
• Bonus lesson 5: Solar Eclipse Lesson

LESSON OVERVIEWS:

Unit 1: I Am a Scientist + My Five Senses

1. What is science?
2. What is a scientist?
3. Scientists ask questions
4. Scientists experiment
5. Scientists use tools
6. My sense of sight
7. My sense of touch
8. My sense of hearing
9. My sense of taste
10. My sense of smell

Apples Unit for Kindergarten + 1st Grade

1. Apple labeling
2. The apple life cycle
3. Apple tree seasons
4. Orchard to table
5. Apple investigation day

Pumpkin Unit for Kindergarten + 1st Grade

1. Exploring and Researching Pumpkins
2. Parts of the Pumpkin
3. Pumpkin Life Cycle
4. Pumpkin Farm + Uses
5. Pumpkin Investigation Day
6. Optional Bonus Lesson: Apples vs. Pumpkins

Unit 2: Force and Motion - Pushes and Pulls

1. How do things move?
2. Pushes and pulls
3. Forces
4. Gravity
5. Friction
6. Ramps - The Ramp Challenge
7. Simple machines
8. How we use simple machines
9. Magnets pull
10. Movement and magnets

Unit 3: The Earth

1. Observing properties of matter
2. Solids, liquids, and gases
3. States of matter
4. Changing states of matter
5. The sun and what it provides (heat and light)
6. Protection from the sun - includes building a shelter from the sun
7. The water cycle
8. Natural and manmade resources
9. Using earth's resources
10. Taking care of the earth

Unit 4: Weather

1. What is weather?
2. Clouds
3. Precipitation
4. Wind
5. Storms and severe weather
6. Weather safety
7. Meteorologists and weather tools
8. The sun and the earth
9. Seasons
10. Weather and us

Polar Animals Unit

1. All About Polar Bears
2. Polar Bear Labeling
3. Polar Bear Habitat
4. Polar Bear Adaptations
5. Polar Bear Life Cycle
6. All About Penguins + Penguin Labeling
7. Penguin Types + Habitats
8. Penguin Adaptations
9. Penguins Move (force and motion review)
10. Penguin Life Cycle
11. Compare and Contrast Polar Bears and Penguins

Unit 5: Living Things

1. Living and Nonliving Things
2. Characteristics of Living Things
3. Needs of Living Things
4. How Living Things Grow and Change (human life cycle)
5. Living and Extinct (fossils)
6. The Parts of a Plant
7. The Needs of a Plant
8. How Plants Make Food (photosynthesis)
9. Seeds
10. The Life Cycle of a Plant
11. Seasons and Plants (adaptations)

Unit 6: Life Cycles

1. Animal Needs
2. Animal Habitats
3. Animal Adaptations
4. Oviparous vs. Viviparous Animals
5. Reptiles and their Life Cycle (snake life cycle)
6. Birds and their Life Cycle (robin life cycle)
7. Amphibians and their Life Cycle (frog life cycle)
8. Fish and their Life Cycle (salmon life cycle)
9. Insects and their Life Cycle (butterfly life cycle)
10. Mammals and their Life Cycle (cow life cycle)

Unit 7: Outer Space

1. What is Space?
2. The Sun and The Tarth
3. Day and Night
4. Patterns of the Sun
5. The Moon
6. Moon Craters
7. Moon Phases
8. The Stars
9. The Solar System (Planets)
10. Astronauts + Force and Motion Review

Ocean Animals Unit:

1. The ocean habitat
2. Ocean fish
3. Sharks
4. Dolphins
5. Whales
6. Sea turtles
7. Seahorses
8. Octopuses
9. Jellyfish
10. Crabs