Science 1
Saskatchewan Curriculum - Grade 1 Science* The new Saskatchewan Science Curriculum is currently in Draft Mode and will be posted once it is ready. The draft copy can be found here.
Unit: Animals
- Observe and describe many types of animals.
- Recognize characteristics which can be used to identify and describe animals.
- Identify, by sight or by sound, a wide variety of animals.
- Classify animals on the basis of their size, their body coverings, the foods they eat, and their relationships to humans.
- Recognize that there are several ways in which the same set of animals may be classified.
- Describe the basic needs of animals.
- Identify some animals which make good pets.
- Identify a pet's basic needs.
- Compare the needs of other animals with pets.
- Explain how animals are adapted to their environments.
- Describe the habitats of some animals.
- Explore the ways that animals adapt to their environments.
- Explain how animals depend on their habitats for their basic needs.
- Observe, describe, or imitate how animals behave in their natural environments.
- Describe the development of animals from birth or hatching to maturity.
- Describe the physical changes of several animals from the newly hatched or born to the mature adult.
- Compare the amount of care needed by the young of several species.
- Describe the features of the Earth's surface.
- Identify the Earth as a sphere in space.
- Recognize the globe as a model of the Earth.
- Compare landforms such as mountains, plains, and deserts.
- Use a globe and maps to locate major features of the Earth.
- Describe rocks and soil.
- Observe different types of rocks.
- Compare and classify rocks.
- Observe different types of soil.
- Describe soil by texture and colour.
- Discuss the characteristics and uses of air and water.
- Infer that air takes up space.
- Infer that air moves by observing things affected by it.
- Understand that air and water are essential for plants and animals.
- Discuss the effects of wind and water on our environment.
- Explain how the wind and water can be useful.
- Observe and describe the effects of air or water pollution.
- Recognize that motion is one type of change.
- Compare descriptions or pictures of an environment at different times to discover evidence of change.
- Identify whether an observed change involved motion.
- Describe some different aspects of motion.
- Observe and describe motion.
- Observe that objects can move at different speeds.
- Discuss how motion can be measured.
- Observe the relationship between friction and motion.
- Explain the relationship between force and motion.
- Observe the effects of forces in nature.
- Appreciate that motion is caused by a force.
- Identify some ways that machines move things.
- Compare various plants, plant parts, and plant products.
- Identify similarities and differences among plants.
- Identify the roots, stems, leaves, and flowers of plants.
- Compare and classify plants using characteristics of their leaves.
- Compare the root systems, the flowers, and the stems of several plants.
- Describe some seasonal changes in plants.
- Identify foods which come from plants.
- Recognize some products other than foods which come from plants.
- Describe the functions of the various parts of the plants.
- Identify basic plant needs.
- Match each need of a plant with the part(s) which supply that need.
- Observe and describe some plant habitats.
- Discuss how the varying needs of plants suit them to different habitats.
- Compare the types of care needed by several types of indoor plants.
- Discuss the safe use of the sense organs.
- Identify the parts of the sense organs which receive the input.
- Recognize how to protect the sense organs from damage.
- Appreciate the diverse uses of the senses.
- Match each sense with the organ through which its sensory input is gathered.
- Identify common sources of sound.
- Identify objects by their odour, texture, taste, colour, sound, or other characteristics.
- Determine the source of a sound or an odour.
- Determine the colour produced when different colour pigments are mixed.
- Appreciate the diversity and value of the information which we receive through our senses.
- Exhibit ability to compare and classify.
- Classify objects by using the senses.
- Classify sound by pitch and by loudness.
- Recognize that the same group of things may be classified in a number of ways.
- Distinguish attributes of matter which can be used to help describe it.
- Describe an object as completely as possible.
- Compare the properties of two objects.
- Realize that one object can have many properties.
- Use as many of the senses as possible in identifying properties.
- Classify objects by a common property.
- Sort objects into two groups according to one characteristic.
- Compare two objects within a defined group to see how they are similar and how they are different.
- Recognize that the same set of objects may be classified in more than one way.
- Describe the major objects which can be seen in the sky.
- Realize that the sun is a star.
- Identify the sun as a source of light and heat.
- Realize that stars other than the sun are very far away.
- Observe some of the patterns which stars make in the sky.
- Identify Venus, Mars, and Jupiter in the sky.
- Observe the changes in the apparent shape of the moon.
- Observe the changes in the time of day when the moon appears in the sky.
