St. John Vianney School

Comprehensive Formation in an Authentically Catholic Environment

Science
Curriculum Overview

 
Fourth Grade Curriculum

How Living Things Are Put Together
•    Identifying living things
•    Looking at cells

How Organisms Are Classified
•    Classifying organisms of the past
•    Organisms and where they live
•    Ecosystems

Human Body: A Body in Motion
•    Your skeleton
•    Your muscles
•    Circulatory, respiratory system

Earth’s Water
•    What makes water disappear
•    Motion in the ocean

Sea Animal Reports

Matter On The Move
•    How can you describe it, identify it, what is it made of
•    Measuring matter

Energy and Changes
•    Types of changes
•    Heat (the affects)
•    Energy and tools (what it takes to move something)

Animals
•    Animals with and without backbones
•    Characteristics

Learning About Earth’s History
•    Shaping Earth’s surface
•    The story of soil
•    Inside Earth



Fifth Grade Curriculum

The Importance of Plants
•    Kingdom
•    Plant survival
•    Making food

Plant Reproduction and Responses
•    Plants with out seeds
•    Plants with seeds
•    From plant to seed to plant
•    Plant responses

Weather
•    Atmosphere and air temperature
•    Water in the air
•    Clouds of water and ice
•    Air pressure and wind

Weather Patterns and Climate
•    Air masses and fronts
•    Severe storms
•    Climate

Earth and Its Resources
•    Earth and its neighbors
•    Earth’s changing crust
•    Minerals of Earth’s crust
•    Earth’s rocks and soil
•    Earth’s air, water and energy

Solar System- Planet reports

Human Body: Pathways
•    Circulatory, respiratory systems

Exercise and Nutrition

Light
•    Light and mirrors
•    Light and lenses
•    Color of light
•    Invisible light

Sound
•    Sound and hearing
•    Sound and surfaces
•    High, low, loud and soft

Composting- Worm Factory



Sixth Grade Curriculum

Understanding Living Things
•    Cells, genetics and heredity
•    Classification

Matter and Energy
•    Atoms, elements and compounds
•    Matter- properties and changes
•    Energy
•    Sound and Light

Make Electric Candles

Forces and Machines
•    Forces and Motion
•    Machines and work

Invent a Compound Machine

Cycles in Earth and Space
•    Movement of Earth’s crust
•    Rock and the rock cycle
•    Cycles in the Solar System
•    Exploring the Universe



Seventh & Eighth Grade Curriculum

Electricity
•    Forces and electrical charges
•    Electrical charge carriers
•    Making electricity flow
•    Resistance, current and voltage

Magnetism
•    Forces and fields
•    Magnets
•    Effects of magnetic fields
•    Producing electric currents

The Structure of the Atom
•    Early discoveries
•    A model atom

The Periodic Table
•    Structure of the periodic table
•    Families of elements
•    Periods of elements

Molecules in Motion
•    Solids and liquids
•    Kinetic theory of gases

Reproduction
•    Meiosis makes sex cells
•    Plant reproduction
•    Animal reproduction

Heredity
•    How organisms get their traits
•    Mendel’s work explained
•    How do gene’s control traits

Fueling the Body
•    Nutrition- the spice of life
•    Digestion: a disassembly line

Blood: Transport and Protection
•    Transport of life
•    The body’s defense

Develop a Science Fair Project

Dissection of a pig, frog, or shark

Crystal Radio Project