BEST CURRICULUM FITS:
Skills:
- Asking questions that lead to exploration and investigation
- Investigating the nature of things
- Making predictions and hypothesis
- Recognize and describe steps in an investigation
- Recognizing a control and variables – plan and carry out a fair test
- Recording or drawing observations and measurements
- Analyzing observations
- Formulating conclusions and new questions
Attitudes:
- Curiosity & Confidence in science
- Appreciation of the value of experience and careful observation
- Perseverance in the search for understandings and for solutions to problems
Theme Specific Connections
Attitudes:
- Connections to our natural winter environments
- Respect for our natural world
Curriculum Connections:
- Heat and temperature
- Cold and Warm
- Physical properties of water (frozen, liquid, vapor)
- Seasonal Changes
- Exploring Liquids
- Weather in Winter