Alberta Grades 1 & 2 Science - Full Year Bundle - NEW 2023 CURRICULUM

Grades 1 and 2 – Alberta Science Curriculum – This resource covers all outcomes in the NEW 2023 Alberta Science Curriculum.

GOOGLE CLASSROOM VERSION - PDF INCLUDED! This gives you the ability to print worksheets as well as distribute a digital copy of the resource to your students on Google Classroom.

Check out each of the strands below to learn more about the resources included in this bundle.

Grade 1 Resources

Matter: Objects

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What are objects?
• Different lengths of objects – width, height, and depth
• Activity – comparing the height of different objects
• Scavenger hunt – finding shorter and taller objects than your pencil
• Activity – comparing the width of objects and ordering objects based on their width
• Comparing depths of objects – televisions, vehicles, boxes
• Area of objects
• Scavenger hunt – finding objects with less area and more area than your hand
• Activity – measuring the area of objects using footprints
• Superimposing objects to compare their area
• Activity - Which object has more mass?
• Comparing mass – heavy versus light objects
• Ordering the weight of objects
• Scavenger hunt – finding objects lighter and heavier than your shoe
• Measuring weight/mass experiment – comparing the weight of two objects
• Changing objects – physical changes that only change the look of the object/material
• Bending objects – can the object be bent?
• Activity – bending/folding paper to make a paper airplane
• Twisting objects – can the object be twisted?
• Activity – Making a Twisted Sculpture
• Cutting objects – can the object be cut?
• Activity – how does cutting an object change the object?
• Activity – what tool is best for cutting?
• Stretching objects – what happens to the object?
• Can the object be stretched?
• Experiment – Stretch it out!
• Breaking objects – is the object easily broken?
• Experiment – changing objects: can the object be changed (cut, bent, stretched, twisted, broken)
• Activity – working with clay to make something useful
• Changing objects to make a new texture
• Experiment – creating different textures using sandpaper
• Experiment – different textures of food after changing food objects
• Computer science – making objects by following the coding instructions
• Assignment – making a pencil holder
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Energy (Movement)

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is movement?
• Describing the position of objects: above, below, next to, beside, near, between
• Describing the movement of objects: up, down, forward, backward, sideways, toward and away
• Writing directions and following directions: up, down, right, left
• Movement pathways – straight, curved, spiral, circular, zig-zag, up and down, back and forth
• Story – Sammy the Squirrel: drawing his movements
• Coding activity – writing coding commands for a movement obstacle course
• Coding activity – robot lawn mower
• Animals and objects that roll
• Activity – will the object roll?
• Experiment – testing whether objects will roll down a slide
• Invention of the wheel
• Activity – making a wheel
• Objects that bounce
• Experiment – testing how bouncy objects are
• Bouncy material: rubber
• Animals and objects that slide
• Experiment – testing if objects will slide on different surfaces
• Smooth versus rough surfaces
• Experiment – friction car ramp
• Activity – will the object roll or slide?
• What is speed?
• Comparing the speed of animals
• Ordering the speeds of vehicles
• Describing changes in speed
• Activity – Speed Detectives
• Game – Red Light, Green Light
• Experiment – Racing Cars
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Earth Systems (Seasons)

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• The Sun – source of light and heat
• Life without the Sun
• How the Sun causes seasons
• Experiment – orbiting Earth around the Sun
• 3 seasons in India and Thailand – cold, rainy, dry
• 2 seasons in Africa (dry and rainy seasons)
• Experiment – creating models of rainy and dry seasons
• Seasons – different amounts of heat and light
• Activities we do in each season – summer, fall, winter, spring
• How animals have adapted to seasonal changes
• Plants adapting to changing seasons – falling leaves
• Thicker fur, dormancy of plants, migration and hibernation
• Clothing we wear in each season
• How humans adapt to seasonal change – air conditioners, clothing, furnace
• Non-seasonal activities – indoor arenas, swimming indoors, hockey in the summer
• Activity – making dog booties
• Summer storms – hailstorms, thunderstorms, and tornados
• Summer season - wildfires
• Winter storms – blizzard and ice storm
• Coding activities – following instructions to play dress up
• Coding activities – making a paper snowflake
• Coding activity – drawing a flower
• Seasonal cycles in your life – sports and activities you do at different times of the year
• Taking care of the environment – keeping water clean
• Food from our environment
• How the Indigenous take care of the environment
• Cree First Nation Seasonal Round
• Dene First Nation Seasonal Round
• Metis Seasonal Round
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Living Systems - Needs of Living Things

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Living things versus non-living things
• Living things – plants and animals
• Animals move while plants stay still
• Body parts of humans and other animals
• Describing common characteristics of animals
• Nocturnal versus diurnal animals
• Variations of human characteristics – eye, hair, and skin colour
• Different types of plants – grasses, trees, creepers, climbers, shrubs
• Life processes – breathing, sleeping, growing, eating
• Basic needs of animals
• Basic needs of plants
• Experiment – growing a plant in different environments
• How to care for a pet
• Research – favourite animal
• How humans meet their basic needs – using tools
• How animals meet their basic needs – locomotion
• How living things use the environment to meet their needs
• Plants and animals in forests
• Plants and animals living on the prairies
• Plants and animals living in lakes and rivers
• Plants and animals living on mountains
• What animals eat from the environment
• How animals eat – swallowing whole, tearing, cracking, chewing their food
• Shelters – how animals use their environment to make shelters
• Harmful plants and animals (poison ivy, wild animals)
• Having allergies to plants and animals – shared reading story
• Keeping the environment clean
• Air and water pollution
• Creating a zoo environment for an animal – understanding their basic needs
• Hobbies and jobs working with animals
• Showing respect for living things – how to keep the environment healthy
• Understanding misinformation in movies – animals can’t speak English
• Coding activities – robot zoo worker
• Coding activities – coding an animal maze
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Grade 2 Resources

Matter: Materials and Objects

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What are materials?
• Natural and human-made materials
• Describe materials using your senses
• What are objects?
• Common objects and the materials used to make them
• How many different materials are used to make an object
• Properties of common materials – waterproof, buoyant, reflective, transparent
• Experiment – will it sink or float?
• Research – things that float
• Life preservers – made from floating materials
• Waterproof materials
• Experiment – is the material absorbent or does it repel water?
• Experiment – catching bubbles
• Stretchy materials
• Experiment – Can you stick a wooden dowel through a balloon?
• Experiment – is the object transparent?
• Activity – does the material or object reflect light?
• Measuring the properties of materials: length and weight using non-standard units
• How the same materials are used for different purposes
• The purpose of objects – their function and the materials used to make them
• Testing different objects for different purposes
• Activity – creating something useful out of clay
• Experiment – cleaning up 3 different messes using three different tools
• Joining materials – nails, screws, glue, zippers, buttons, etc.
• Activity – using joining materials to make an object
• Activity – designing and building a pencil holder
• Coding – making objects using coding instructions
• Professionals using materials – carpenters, engineers, designers, knowledge keepers
• How the Indigenous use natural materials – no waste, take what they need, seasonal materials
• Dene Birchbark Baskets
• Red River Carts
• Activity – making a canoe
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Energy (Light and Sound)

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• What is energy?
• Activity - light or sound energy?
• Activity – guess the sound
• Artificial versus natural sounds
• Making sounds – vibrations
• The journey of sound – vibrations, transfer, reflect, absorb
• Experiment – light maze
• Sound reflecting materials
• Experiment – creating a soundproof room/box
• Pitch, duration, and volume
• Activity – reading sentences in different pitches, volumes, and durations
• Experiment – testing the pitch with glasses of water
• Sound moves through matter – liquids, solids, and gases
• Experiment – how well does sound move through air, water, and solids
• Sound recording devices
• Musical instruments – how the shape, texture, and size of objects affects sound
• Activity – guess the musical instrument
• Light energy
• Natural versus artificial light
• Biggest source of light – The Sun
• Plants need the sun/light
• Experiment – effects of the sun on objects with and without sunscreen
• Light emitter or light reflector
• Coding – human made and natural light
• Light – colour and brightness
• Light moves through objects – transparency
• Shadows – light being blocked by objects
• Experiment – understanding shadows
• Activities – matching shadows with objects
• Light bending – refraction
• Experiment – model of light bending
• Light splitting into colours – dispersion
• Experiment – demonstrating light dispersion (splitting)
• Coding – automatic streetlights
• Writing code – lights in your room
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

Earth Systems (Landforms)

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• The Earth - land, water, air, living things
• Life on Earth
• Looking for life on other planets
• The Mars Rover
• Coding assignment – driving the Mars Rover
• STEM Assignment – making a rover
• What are landforms?
• Mountains – activities
• Activity - making a model mountain
• The Rocky Mountains
• Landform – hills (hills in Alberta and Parliament Hill)
• Landform – plateaus
• Activity – making a plateau
• Landform – valleys
• Experiment – making a valley
• Landform – plains in Alberta
• Volcanoes
• Experiment – making a volcano
• Bodies of water – freshwater vs saltwater
• Landforms – glaciers
• Wetlands in Alberta
• Activity – making a model wetland (swamp or marsh)
• Rivers in Alberta
• Lakes in Alberta
• Water’s Journey Downhill
• Dinosaur Provincial Park
• Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump
• Earths rotation and revolution – 24 hour day/365 day year
• Day versus night
• Experiment – demonstrating the rotating Earth
• Cycles in our day and year
• Unit test
• Answer pages for all activities

Living Systems - Growth of Plants and Animals

Some of the concepts that are covered:

• Metamorphic life cycles
• Non-metamorphic life cycles
• Amphibians
• Frog life cycle
• Mammals
• Dog life cycle
• Growth of humans – human life cycle
• Reptiles
• Snake life cycle
• Fish life cycle
• Bird life cycle
• Vertebrates versus invertebrates
• Experiment – modelling vertebrates and invertebrates
• Butterfly life cycle
• Story – the growth of a butterfly
• Ant life cycle
• Spider life cycle
• Activity – making a life cycle book
• Changing animals – piglet and pig, caterpillar and butterfly, etc.
• Seed plants – life cycle
• Bulb plants – life cycle
• How humans pollute the environment
• Humans destroying the homes of animals
• How humans can help the environment – reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose
• Activity – building a recycled bird feeder
• Invasive species in Alberta
• Helping animals – parks, protected areas, recovering areas
• Coding activities – helping animals
• Indigenous sacred animals
• Indigenous beliefs – all living things are equal
• Indigenous groups respect the Earth – no waste, take only what they need, etc.
• Unit Test
• Answer pages for all activities

This is a comprehensive bundle that will save you hours of planning! It has been tested and found effective in helping students achieve the learning outcomes in the science curriculum.

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