School Administrative District #4

Unity of purpose

CORE CURRICULUM: ALIGNMENT ISSUES:

SCIENCE TOPICS ADDRESSED

IN THE HOUGHTON-MIFFLIN READING SERIES

Department: English Language Arts

GRADE: Kindergarten

á        Animal families

á        Animals sleeping

á        Animals' body covering

á        Animals' names

á        Balance: creating a see-saw

á        Bears

á        Breathing

á        Butterflies

á        Caterpillars

á        Changes in growth

á        Dairy products

á        Farm animals

á        Feeding wildlife

á        Five senses

á        Floating/sinking

á        Honey

á        Magnifying water droplets

á        Pet care

á        Rain

á        Seasons

á        Seeds

á        Shadows

á        Stars

á        Water

á        Weather

á        Wind (helpful effects)

GRADE: 1

á        Animals

á        Camouflage

á        Collections

á        Colors/prisms

á        Environments (river, desert, forest, swamp)

á        Growth

á        Insects

á        Investigating

á        Listening

á        Moose

á        Observing

á        Pollution

á        Problem-solving

á        Recording/organizing information

á        Recycling

á        Seeds

á        Senses

á        Shadows

á        Similarities and differences

á        Sinking/floating

á        Spiders

á        Terrarium

á        Trees

GRADE: 2

á        Animal classification

á        Animal habitats

á        Animal tracks

á        Classifying gem stones

á        Cloud formation

á        Color

á        Dinosaurs

á        Extinct and endangered animals

á        Mold (growing)

á        Ocean life

á        Recycling

á        Snakes

GRADE: 3

á        Air

á        Animals (omnivorous)

á        Buoyancy

á        Circulatory system

á        Electricity

á        Food chain (desert)

á        Hurricanes

á        Microscopes

á        Pigs

á        Rabies

á        Sharks

á        Terrariums

á        Tornadoes

á        Tree growth

á        Tropical fruits

á        Vegetable growth

á        Venus

á        Viscosity

á        Volcanoes

á        Weather

á        Wolves

GRADE: 4

á        Animal adaptation

á        Atmosphere

á        Condensation

á        Dreams

á        Ecology

á        Five senses

á        Geology

á        Great Yellowstone Fire

á        Jungles

á        Lakes and ponds

á        Leaf structure

á        Nuclear radiation

á        Observation skills

á        Pet care

á        Photosynthesis

á        Pigs

á        Plants

á        Pollination

á        Pollution

á        Rain Forests

á        Recycling

á        Solar system

á        Solving problems (dreams)

á        Spiders

á        Tsetse

á        Volcano

á        Weather

á        Wind

Developed 07/10/98

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