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- Living and non-living things
- Animals and plants; basic characteristics
- Observation of animals in nature
- Puzzles representing the biological parts
of flowers, root systems, and trees, along with the anatomical
features of common animals
- These are first used by very young children
and puzzles, then as a means to learn the vocabulary, then are
related to photos and/or the "real thing," then traced
onto paper, and finally with labels as a reading experience
- Nomenclature Cards: Botany, Zoology,
Anatomy
- Introduction to ecology: habitat, food
chain, adaptation to environment and climate, predator-prey
relationships, camouflage, and other body adaptations of common
animals
- Advanced elementary biology study: the
names and functions of different forms of leaves, flowers, seeds,
trees, plants, and animals
- Study of evolution and the development
of life on the Earth over the years
- The plant kingdom and animal kingdom.
Life cycles; water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen
- Introduction to chemistry: Begins at
age 6 and continues throughout the elementary science curriculum
- The three states of matter
- Physical and chemical changes
- Research into the elements and continued
study of the periodic table
- Introduction to chemistry lab experiments
- Health and nutrition. (Age 9 and up)
- Ecology: Advanced study of the interrelationships
of life forms. (Age 9 and up)
- Study of the great scientists
- Geology and mineralogy
- Meteorology
- Astronomy and cosmology
- Elementary physics: light, electricity,
magnetic fields, gravity, mass
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