Science

Our Science sessions combine interactive physics-based lessons with exciting experiments designed to spark curiosity and deepen understanding. From motion and energy to light and magnetism, students learn by observing, testing, and applying what they learned.

Science Curriculum Overview

1st Grade Topics

• What is Science?

• Classify Objects by Shape, Material, and Texture

• Introduction to Forces: Pushes and Pulls

• States of Matter: Solids, Liquids, and Gases

• Space: The Sun, Moon, Earth, and other Planets/Dwarf Planets

• Magnetism: How do magnets push/pull each other?

• Changes caused by heating and cooling

2nd Grade Topics

• State Changes: Changes caused by Heat, Cooling, and Pressure

• Melting, Freezing, Evaporation, Condensation, Sublimation, Deposition

• Heat Flow

• Mixtures

• Forces and Motion: Pushes and pulls, Forces and Mass affecting motion, Speed

• Magnetism

3rd Grade Topics

• Identify Properties of Objects

• Classifying Matter as Solid, Liquid, and Gas

• State Changes

• Temperature: How is temperature related to thermal energy?

• Physical and Chemical Changes (Identify and Compare them)

• Forces and Motion: How do balanced and unbalanced forces affect motion?

• Light: How does light travel and interact with matter?

• Static electricity and charged objects

• Magnetism: Compare strengths of magnetic forces

4th Grade Topics

• Density

• Conservation of Matter (Understand using graphs)

• States of Matter: Change-of-state diagrams

• Heat and Thermal Energy

• Predict heat flow

• Identify compounds and mixtures

• Identify directions of forces

• How does mass affect force and acceleration?

• How are speed and energy related?

• Compare amplitudes and wavelengths of waves

• Magnetism

• Energy transformation

• Electric circuits; conductors and insulators

• How does light travel and interact with matter?

5th Grade Topics

• Calculating density

• Newton's Laws of Motion

• Calculating speed, time, and distance

• Acceleration

• Balanced and unbalanced forces

• Collisions and car safety

• Kinetic and Potential Energy

• Energy Transformation

• Electric forces and fields

• Magnetic forces and fields

• Thermal energy transfers

• Particle motion

• Waves: Transverse and longitudinal

• Compare energy, amplitudes, wavelengths, and frequencies of waves

• Types of waves: electromagnetic, ultraviolet, infrared