SCIENCE - Kindergarten

First Unit Six

Weeks

SEMESTER 1
Second Unit Six Third Unit Six Fourth Unit Six
Weeks
Weeks
Weeks

Observing with
Day and Night
Rocks and Soils
My Senses
Sky
SKP1

SKE2

SKE1

SEMESTER 2
Fifth Unit Six
Weeks

Sixth Unit Six

Weeks

How Things
Move

Living/Nonliving
Animal Babies

Plants & Year in

Review

SKP2
SKP3

SKL1
SKL2

SKL1
SKL2

Constructing a
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Second Semester
PBL Question: What is the most efficient and
economical packaging material for a fragile item?
ED Brief: Students will formulate the most efficient
and economical packing device with materials to
carry a bird's egg.
Connections: How Things Move; Living and
Nonliving; Transportation of Objects

Roller Coaster
Build

3D printer to create EIE plant unit Hand

automatic pet
Pollinator
feeder

Lego We Do Kits

Endangered Bees in
Savannah

Coding and
Math sorting

UPS- 1-800-Flowers

SCIENCE - FIRST GRADE

SEMESTER 1

SEMESTER 2

First Unit Six

Weeks
Weather and
Seasons

Second Unit Six

Weeks
Weather and
Water

Third Unit
Three Weeks

Fourth Unit
Three Weeks

Fifth Unit Six

Weeks

Light

Sound

Magnets

S1E1

S1E2

S1P1

S1P1

S1P2

Sixth Unit Six

Weeks
Plants and Plant
Needs

Seventh Unit
Six Weeks
Animals and
Animal Needs

S1L1

S1L1

STEM
Light
Challenge:
Sources/ Do
Why do Clouds Wind
Rain Powered Puff Mobile Design Musical
ChallengeSTEM Magent Race
STEM
Challenge
Plant BarrierZoo
Design
STEM
Challenge
Design Challenges
We Need
Sounds and
Light to See?
Pitch

PBL Question: Does the soil consistency and plant

container effect plant growth?

ED Brief: Create the best soil composition for the

VES garden
Connections: soil, plant life, rocks, minerals

3D printer cars

Native Georgia plants Atlanta zooand soil conservation replicate zoo

habitat

SCIENCE - SECOND GRADE

SEMESTER 1

SEMESTER 2

First Unit Six

Weeks

Second Unit Six

Weeks

Third Unit
Three Weeks

Fourth Unit
Three Weeks

Fifth Unit Six

Weeks

Matter

Energy

Motion

Sun, Moon and

Stars

Changes in
Surroundings

S2P1

S2P2

S2P3

S2E2, S2E1

S2E3

Sixth Unit Six

Weeks
Life Cycles
(Animals and
Plants)

S2L1

Solar Energy
Cooking STEM
Bartholomew and the Ooblek STEM
Marble
challenge
Track STEM
LunarDesign
Landing
Challenge
STEM
Beat the
Design
Flood
Challenge
EIE Hand Pollinator
Design
Challenge

Second Semester
PBL Question: How do we prevent flooding of
structural objects in low lying areas?
ED Brief: Students will create a model colony that
will prevent flooding and re-route waters to areas in
need of this resource.
Connections: Creek and Cherokee Indians, Changes
in Surroundings, Real-World, Global connection to
flooding in India and need for water in remote areas.

Students build a
Create a hand
topographical map pollinator that can
to replicate the
be transported with
parking lot that
2 plants
floods.
Partner with
kindergarten

SCIENCE - THIRD GRADE

SEMESTER 1
First Unit Six
Weeks
Heat
S3P1

S3P1(ad)

SEMESTER 2

Second Unit 4-6 Third Unit Six

Weeks
Weeks
Pollution

Habitats

S3L2
S3L2(a, b)

S3L1
S3L1 (a-d)

Fourth Unit
Four Weeks

Fifth Unit Two

Weeks

Sixth Unit Six

Weeks

Rocks and Soil

Fossils

Magnets

S3E1

S4E1
(a-c)

S3E1, S3Eb, S3Ec

S3P2
S3P2(a,b)

Heat Saving Device

EIE Water, WaterEngineering
Everywhere:
Challenge:
Rotation
Designing
FiveGrowth
Critter
Water
Dinosaurs
Habitat
Filters
Chamber
Curator
and Fossils
Design
EIE, Maglev
STEAM
Challenge
Design
Train Challenge

Second Semester
PBL Question: How can erosion be prevented in
order to decrease flooding, damage to
freshwater, and marine habitats?
ED Brief: Students will create design model to
prevent erosion.
Connections: rocks, soil, plants, habitats, and clean
water

Tellus Museum to
Use consumable EIE
see models of fossils kits
Create fossils with
the 3D printer

SCIENCE - FOURTH GRADE

SEMESTER 1
First Unit Six
Weeks
Weather and
Water
S4E3
(a-e)

SEMESTER 2

Second Unit Six Third Unit Six Fourth Unit Six

Fifth Unit Six
Weeks
Weeks
Weeks
Weeks
Light and
Ecosystems
Astronomy
Forces and Motion
Sound

S4L1
S4E3
S4L1 (a-d)
S4E4
S4L2
S4E4 (a-d)
S4L2(a, b)

S4E1
(a-d)

S4E1 S4P2
S4P2
S4P3
S4E2
(a, b)
S4P1
S4P3 (a-d)
S4E2 (a-d)
S4P1 (a-c)

Sixth Unit Six

Weeks
CRCT Review

SS4CS (1-8)

Tornado-Proof Building
Cleaning and OilNASA's
Spill / A
Lunar
SlickExploration
Simple
SolutionMusical
Missions
Create
Instruments
& Improve a Catapult

Second Semester
PBL Question: How can we preserve our natural
resources by creating everyday objects made of
plastic?
ED Brief: Design a musical instrument using a 3-D
printer.
Connections: Simple Musical Instruments, Light and
Sound

PBL Question: How can we decrease operator errors

in automobiles?
ED Brief: Create a safer car by eliminating operator
error.
Connections: Forces and Motion, Transportation,
Automotives, Technology - Coding

Connections: Forces and Motion, Transportation,

Automotives, Technology - Coding

Make your own eco-friendly, sun jar

to hook up to a circuit.
Keepers of the Lighthouse on CNN

Create solar lights for the pathways

around the modulars

Partner with Sea

Perch
Partner with
Dunwoody HS for a
Ford car build

Vanderlyn Elementary School

STEM PACING

2015-16

SCIENCE - FIFTH GRADE

SEMESTER 1
First Unit Six
Weeks

Second Unit Six

Weeks

Classification

Cells and
Microorganisms

S5L1a
S5L1b

3D Plant
Protype
Diagrams **

S5L3 (a-c)
(a, b)

S5L4

SEMESTER 2
Third Unit Six Fourth Unit Six
Weeks
Weeks
Genetics and
Heredity
S5L2a
S5L2b

Physical &
Chemical
Changes
S5P1 (a-c)
S5P3 (a, b)

Fifth Unit Six

Weeks
Electricity
(2weeks) Earth
Processes (4
weeks)
S5P3 (b, c)
S5E1(a-c)

Sixth Unit Six

Weeks
Earth Processes &
CRCT Review
S5E1 (a-c)

Cells - Just Passing Through

Genetics
(EiE) Design
Slime Time
ModelAn
Membranes
Alarming Idea:Shake
Designing
it Up Alarm
with Seismographs
Circuits EIE

Second Semester
**Students will complete 3D plant prototypes to include
the four plant parts and labels in technology lab using 3D
printerand then build the 3D model using a design
challenge brief created byteacher based on listing
challenge, criteria, and materials.

PBL Question: How can you prevent the modular

windows from being broken?
ED Brief: Create a model to detect window vibration
that will set off an alarm.
Connections: Electricity/Circuits, Community Safety
and Protection, How Sound Moves Through Materials

PBL Question: How can we provide temporary

housing in remote areas during natural disasters?
ED Brief: Create temporary housing that can be
transported to remote areas in mass quantities during
natural disasters as a part of relief.
Connections: Earth Process, Real-World Global
Problems in the US and Asia

Vanderlyn Elementary School

STEM PACING
CDC handsanitizer

The Forest of
France
Living on the
Cliff- CNN

2015-16

Hidden Alarm
Parachute multiple
Design Squad Nation structures into
remote areas.
Storm Cellars- mock
for homes
Tent on cliffs- work
with textile dept at
Ga Tech to develop
dome tents