Garden in Bloom

Rough outline of topics from the Garden in Bloom that our students will study:
Kindergarten: living plants

• 1st Grade: critters and their habitat as well as seasonal changes
• 2nd Grade: plants, seeds and various ecosystems
• 3rd Grade: harvest plants and seeds in the fall - selection artificial vs natural
• 4th Grade: birds
• 5th Grade: micro-worlds in compost and seasonal changes due to the Earth - Sun relationship

Physical Science, Life Science, Earth Science and Engineering Design (Next Generation Science Standards) 

Teacher designed units of study aligned with the NGSS (general topics listed below)

• Kindergarten: forces and interactions
• 1st Grade: waves, the universe and structures and processes
• 2nd Grade: matter, ecosystems and earth
• 3rd Grade: forces, organisms and diversity in the natural world
• 4th Grade: energy, waves, molecules to organisms and the natural world
• 5th Grade: matter and its interactions, scale, proportion, quantity, ecosystems and engineering design

• McGraw Hill/Glencoe Integrated iScience (6-8)

Biology (9)

Carbon Time

• Supplemental material: McGraw-Hill Glencoe, Biology (2007)

Chemistry (10)

• Teacher developed materials
• Supplemental material: Pearson, Chemistry (2012)

Physics (11)

PEER (Physics through Evidence: Empowerment through Reasoning)

• Advanced Placement Chemistry (11-12)
• Advanced Placement Environmental Science (11-12)
• Forensics (11-12)

Eementary

• American Chemical Association (ACA) Adventures in Chemistry 
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Elementary Science Resources

Middle School

High School

• University of Colorado Boulder: PhET Interactive Simulations 
• University of Nottingham: videos about each element on the periodic table

All levels (general support and resources)

• Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge located in Washington
• Khan Academy Science 
• Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History:The Field Book Project
• Smithsonian Scientists Videos
• UC Berkely's Understanding Science