Science4Us helps teachers build a strong foundation in science education with lessons specifically designed for K-2 students. The curriculum's content is aligned with Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics, taking the stress out of STEM education.
Common Core State Standards: A blueprint for academic success
Teachers are aware of the Common Core State Standards for ELA and Math. These rigorous state-driven educational standards were designed to bring consistency to student expectations from kindergarten through 12th grade.
When teachers have access to content aligned with Common Core State Standards, lesson planning becomes more manageable. That’s because the standards in Common Core are intended to better equip teachers and parents to help students master the skills necessary to be successful in college and careers.
What do ELA & math Common Core State Standards have to do with science?
If Sir Isaac Newton hadn’t been able to describe and explain what he had learned about gravity, would his knowledge have been lost? Without Benjamin Franklin’s calculations, how much longer would we have been in the dark without electric light bulbs? Science doesn’t exist without measurement (math) or communication (language). That should be reflected in the elementary school curriculum as well as the upper grades.
That’s why Science4Us was carefully crafted to include language arts and math skills. The K-2 science curriculum provides numerous cross-curricular opportunities to address and reinforce these skills while teaching science content.
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Integrating science and language arts
Integration is the solution to covering the crucial elementary concepts in a crowded school day. Science4Us seamlessly merges science with literacy in each lesson.
Each module has a selection of activities that offer students practice in language skills like letter recognition, decoding, and word-building. In addition, modules provide exposure to different types of literature such as songs, poems, and narrative stories – all with a science focus.
From syllables to similes, language skills can be fun to learn when you reinforce the concepts through science vocabulary. The key K-2 literacy skills are standards-aligned and fully supported for easy use with Science4Us.
How can math be connected to science?
Math skills are also an essential part of the Science4Us curriculum. With standards-aligned math content embedded in lessons, user-friendly teacher guides, and how-to reviews, teaching math skills with science concepts is easy.
Students using Science4Us have the opportunity to work with different types of charts and graphs and read and interpret data. They are introduced to bar graphs, line graphs, tally charts, pie graphs, and many more. Students engage with measurement tools, adding real-world, inquiry-based exploration.
Science4Us creates cross-curricular opportunities and more
With time being such a precious commodity in the early elementary school classroom, it only makes sense to capitalize on cross-curricular opportunities whenever possible. Science4Us delivers those critical skills through thousands of online and offline activities that take as little as ten minutes to complete. Science can be an excellent vehicle for reinforcing mathematics and English language arts concepts, and student engagement keeps them coming back for more.
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