Explore Science - Book B - Sample

Kindergarten

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Table of Contents Unit 6 - Animals

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Animals 6 Body Coverings 8 Reproduction 14 Animals and Us 18 Bugs 24 The Changes to the Environment 34 Engineering and Design 36 Unit Review 38

Unit 7 - Humans

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Our Bodies 44 Our Senses 48 Our Health 66 The Changes to the Environment 70 Engineering and Design 78 Unit Review 80

Unit 8 - Forces and Motion

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Pushing and Pulling 86 Force and Motion 88 Engineering and Design (1) 91 Speed 92 Collision 94 Forces and Nature 96 Engineering and Design (2) 98 The Change to the Environment 100 Unit Review 104

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Unit 6

Animals In this unit you will: • learn about what covers the bodies of some animals.

• learn about how some animals reproduce.

• learn about the benefits some animals give to humans.

• discover more about bugs and insects, and what they need to live.

• identify the body parts of some bugs and insects.

• find out how some animals and bugs change the environment.

• complete fun tasks that will help you explore more about animals.

• do Engineering and Design project to learn more about animals.

• be creative through art and drawing.

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Animals

1. Look at the picture, then answer the questions and check your answers with your classmate.

a- Underline three animals that eat meat. b- Mark four animals that eat plants with (X). c- Circle five animals that fly.

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d- How many animals live in water?

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e- How many animals live on land? f- Which animals are common where you live? g- Which animal is your favorite? Why? 7

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Body Coverings

1. Some animals have skin.

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Tortoise

Snake

Crocodile

Lizard

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2. Some animals have feathers.

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Cock

Penguin

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3. Other animals have fur/hair.

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Bear

Deer

Fox

Cat

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4. Some animals have scales.

Bluegill Fish

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Clown Fish

1. Why do you think fish have scales?

2. Why do some other animals, like the bears, have fur?

3. Why do birds have feathers and wings?

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Task 1 What is the body covering of each animal? Match the animal to the correct word, then covering.

Skin Feathers Scales Fur

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Task 2 Visit the zoo with your family. Take a picture of your favorite animal and paste it in the space below.

1. What is the name of the animal?

2. What covering does it have?

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Reproduction

1. Some animals reproduce and give birth.

2. Other animals reproduce and lay eggs.

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Discuss with a classmate, trace and complete the sentences correctly.

The fish lays ________.

The dog ________ ________.

The frog ________ ________.

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Task 3 Color the pictures, then order the chicken from youngest (1) to oldest (5).

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1. What changes can you see in the life cycle of a cat?

2. How important is it for the kitten to be with their mother?

3. Do they depend on their mother the same amount all their life? When do you think they depend on her lesser?

4. How about humans? How are they similar to cats? How are they different?

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Task 4 Draw a line to match the animal to the correct word and its young.

Gives

BIRTH

Lays

EGGS

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D Animals and Us 1. People keep some animals as pets.

a- What other pets do you know of? b- Which pet is your favorite? c- Can we keep a lion or a snake as a pet? Why?

2. People keep some animals as farm animals.

a- What other farm animals do you know of? b- Which one is most common in your country?

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3. Animals give us food.

What kinds of food do we get from the following animals? Discuss with your classmate and match correctly.

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4. Animals give us leather, wool, and feathers. a- Where do you think the following leather, feather, and wool came from? b- Draw a picture of something that is made from leather.

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Task 5 What things are made from leather, wool, or feathers? Write leather, wool, or feathers under the correct pictures. Write other if none of the above.

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Color the picture and discuss with a classmate what we get from each animal.

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Bugs

1. Bugs are everywhere. Look at the picture and circle as many bugs as you can.

Butterfly Dragonfly

Bee

Ladybug

Beetle Spider

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Ants

1. Why do you think bugs have different colors?

2. How are the bees and the butterflies similar? How are they different?

3. How are the spiders and the ants similar? How are they different?

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Task 6 Go to the school garden and search for bugs. Look closely at one bug.

- What color is it?

- What size is it?

- How does it move?

Draw a picture of that bug and tell your classmates about your findings.

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2. What do bugs need to live? a- Bugs need air and water to live.

Task 7 a- Get two Jars and label them (A) and (B). Jar (A) has air and water, but (B) does not. b- Put a bug in each jar. c- Observe what happens to both bugs after three days. d- What do you understand from this experiment?

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b- Bugs need food to live.

Task 8 a- Get a jar and put a leaf and a piece of fruit in it. b- Put a grasshopper in the jar. c- Which food does the grasshopper eat? d- Repeat the same experiment on other bugs your teacher gives you. e- What do you understand from this experiment?

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c- Bugs need shelter to live. a- Discuss with a classmate and draw a line to join each bug to its shelter.

Nest

Web

Hive b- Paste pictures of other bugs you know of, then tell your classmate where they live.

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Task 9 Draw a picture of a bug that is common where you live, then a- label the head, legs, body, and feelers. b- tell your classmate what it eats. How did you find out? c- tell your classmate where it lives.

Bugs need air, water, food, and shelter to live.

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3. Are all bugs the same? a- Some bugs are useful.

Bee

Ladybug

Earthworm

Beetle

b- Some bugs are dangerous.

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Tarantula

Mosquito

Flea

Wasp

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4. Bugs and insects are not the same. a- Insects have six legs and the following body parts: feelers, head, thorax, and abdomen. b- Bugs have two body parts and more than six legs.

Thorax

Feelers

Head

Abdomen Legs

Some insects can fly and have wings.

Task 10 Label the body parts of a bee.

Feelers

Wings

Head

Abdomen

Thorax

Legs

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Discuss with a classmate. Then omplete the sentences to find out whether spiders and ants are bugs or insects.

1. Spiders have ____________ legs.

2. They have ____________ body parts.

3. They have ______________ on their heads.

4. Spiders are __________________.

1. Ants have ____________ legs.

2. They have ____________ body parts.

3. They have ______________ on their heads.

4. Ants are __________________.

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Task 11 Circle the insects.

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The Change

1. Animals change the environment in different ways: a- Ants change the environment when they build their nests.

b- Rabbits make a change when they dig their burrows.

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c- Grasshoppers eat leaves and can cause great damage to plants.

Task 12 Observe an animal that changes the environment. Draw a picture of that animal and the change it makes. Talk about it with your classmate.

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Design

n o i t a g i t s e v In

Fact Book

Make a fact book about an animal that lives near you.

The book should answer the following questions: a- What does it eat? b- What does it use as a shelter? c- What covers its body? d- What do we get from that animals? e- Does it change the environment? If yes, in what way?

Paste a picture of the animal here.

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Draw what it eats here.

Draw its shelter here.

Draw what we get from it here.

Draw how it changes the environment here.

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w e i v e R 1. What covers the body of these animals? Write skin, feathers, fur, or scales.

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2. Do the following animals give birth or lay eggs? Write the correct answer under each picture.

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3. Circle the animal that gives us the following:

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4. What do bugs need to live? Trace and complete the sentences.

1. Bugs need air to live.

2. Bugs need _________ ___ live.

3. Bugs _____ _________ ___ _____.

5. Draw lines between the bugs and their shelters .

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Unit 7

Humans In this unit you will: • identify your body parts.

• learn about the five senses and what each sense is used for.

• find out how to take good care of your health.

• explore how humans change the environment in good and bad ways.

• complete fun tasks that will help you explore more about the body parts and senses.

• do an experiment to tell how foods smell and taste, then record the results.

• do Engineering and Design project to learn more about the changes humans make to the environment • be creative through art and drawing.

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Our Bodies

1. Look at the picture and learn about the parts of your body.

Practice with your classmate. Tell each other the names of your body parts.

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2. Point to the following parts of your body. Then trace and complete the sentences.

1.

2.

3.

4.

This This This This

is is is is

my my my my

____________. ____________. ____________. ____________.

3. Now write about your arm, leg, and hand.

5. _____ ___ ______ ____________.

6. _____ ___ ______ ____________.

7. _____ ___ ______ ____________.

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4. Complete the drawing, then label the body parts and color.

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Task 1 Match the words to the pictures.

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Our Senses

1. We have five senses: sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. Most of them are in our head. a- How many senses are in your head? b- What are they?

Now draw lines between the senses and the correct body part.

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Task 2 Trace and complete the sentences.

I ________ with my _________.

I ________ with my _________.

I ________ with my _________.

I ________ with my _________.

I ________ with my _________.

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a- The sense of sight.

We use our sense of sight to do many things, like:

g Readin

Writ

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NEWS

Watching

Observing

What are some other things we use the sense of sight for?

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b- The sense of hearing.

We use our sense of hearing to listen to sounds around us. i. Some sounds can be soft.

Singing

Guitar

Whisper

ii. Other sounds can be loud.

Drum

Bell

Roar

a- What else makes soft or loud sounds? b- Make a soft sound, then make a loud one.

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Task 3 a- Do the following things make soft or loud sounds? Write soft or loud.

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b- Draw something that makes a soft sound. Then draw something that makes a loud sound.

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c- The sense of smell.

We use our sense of smell to tell how things smell. i. Some things have a good smell.

Flowers

Fruit

Perfume

ii. Some things have a bad smell.

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Old shoes

Old socks

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Task 4 Draw something that smells good.

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d- The sense of taste.

We use our sense of taste to tell how things taste.

i. Some things taste sweet.

Chocolate

Ice cream

Candies

ii. Some things taste salty.

Chips

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Popcorn

Pizza

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iii. Some things taste bitter.

Coffee

Green tea

Eggplant

iv. Some things taste sour.

Lemon

Orange

Yogurt

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Task 5

a- Sit in pairs, then put a blindfold on your classmate’s eyes. b- The teacher will give you cups of lemon juice, grape juice, coffee, potato chips, and chocolate. c- Ask your classmate to smell the items one by one, then record their response in the Observation Sheet on the next page. d- After that, let them taste the items, and record their response in the Observation Sheet. e- Switch roles and repeat steps “a” to “d”.

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Observation Sheet

Smell

Good

Bad

Sweet

Taste

Salty

Bitter

Sour

Different foods can tastes and smell different.

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e- The sense of touch.

We use our sense of touch to tell how things feel. i. Some things feel soft.

Pillow

T-shirt

ii. Some things feel hard.

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Chair

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iii. Some things feel cold.

Cold water

Cold juice

iv. Some things feel warm.

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How can we make cold things warm?

a- Tell your classmate about two soft things, and two hard things you find at home. b- Draw a hard thing you find at home.

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Task 6 How does each of the following things feel? Write soft, hard, cold, or warm.

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Task 7 Which sense do you use in the following pictures? Trace and complete.

I use my sense of __________ to taste the cake.

I use my sense of __________ to smell the flower.

I use my sense of __________ to listen to music.

I use my sense of __________ to touch the mobile phone screen.

I use my sense of __________ to read story books.

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1. Do animals have senses? Think and label the senses by drawing lines to the cat’s body parts.

2. What senses does a cat use when it searches for food?

3. Who has a better sense of smell, cats or humans?

4. What other animals have a better sense of smell than humans?

sight hearing taste smell touch

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Our Health

1. We need to keep good habits to stay healthy. a- Keep your body clean.

b- Brush your teeth every night.

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c. Wash your hands before and after eating, and after going to the bathroom.

d- Wash fruit and vegetables before eating them.

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e- Drink plenty of water everyday. f- Eat healthy food.

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g- Do plenty of exercise.

a- Tell your classmate how you take good care of your health. b- What are your favorite sports activities? When and where do you exercise?

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The Change

1. People make changes to the environment. a- Some changes are good: i. People make gardens.

a- What are some differences between these two places? b- Which one would you like to live in? Why? c- What do you usually do in a garden?

People change the environment in a good way when they make gardens and parks.

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ii. People make farms to grow crops, and raise farm animals.

a- Look at the picture and make a list of the things we can get from the farm. b- What would happen if there were no farms? c- What is your favorite farm animal? d- What is your favorite farm food? e- What are some other animals that live on a farm? f- What fruit and vegetables are also grown on a farm?

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iii. People use wood from the trees to build new houses that remain for a long time.

Look at the picture and answer the questions: a- Why do people build new houses? b- What happens to the forest when people build new houses? c- What would happen to people if they did not build new houses? d- Where else can people build houses, other than forests? e- Can people build their houses without wood?

People change the environment in a good way when they build new houses.

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iv. People change the land by building new roads.

a- Look at the two pictures. What differences can you see? b- Do cars run smoothly in the same way in both pictures? c- Why do people build roads? d- Was it easy for people to travel in the past? Why?

People change the environment in a good way when they build new roads.

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b- Some changes are bad: i. People cut down trees to make furniture.

a- What are some chairs and tables made from? b- Where do we get wood from? c- What happens to forests when we cut down more trees? d- Will this affect the forest animals? Think of some examples.

When people cut down trees, many animals will die or move to other places.

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ii. People throw litter.

a- Why do you think there is a lot of litter in the picture? b- Does this affect the animals on land and under water? How? c- What would you do to stop this?

Throwing litter harms the environment and kills plants and animals.

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iii. Cars, planes and factories pollute the air.

a- Where does the smoke come from? b- Where does it go? c- How does this affect people, animals, and plants? d- What should we do to stop this?

Smoke coming from cars, planes, and factories harms life on Earth.

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Task 8 What is wrong in the pictures below? What would you do to make things better?

A

B

C

D

E

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Design

n o i t a g i t s e v In You need to change the land to build a school, a mall, and new houses. a- What would you remove? b- Where would you build the new buildings? c- Draw the picture again showing your changes. d- Present your design to the class.

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1. Label the body parts.

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2. Match the pictures correctly.

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3. Are these sentences correct (YES) or incorrect (NO)?

1. We should brush our teeth every night.

2. We should only wash our hands after eating.

3. We should wash fruits before eating them.

4. We should drink a lot of coffee.

5. We should wash our hands after going to the bathroom.

6. We should exercise every day.

7. We should keep our environment clean.

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4. Draw lines from the pictures to either “GOOD environment change” or “BAD environment change”.

GOOD environment change

BAD environment change

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Explore Science This is a high-level task-based learning book for kindergarten children. It presents scientific knowledge, in a highly visual way and it has been carefully designed to help children to love to learn.

Learners will find: * exciting tasks to help them develop scientific thinking skills and inquiry-based learning strategies.

* fun activities and experiments to explore science.

* engineering and design projects to encourage them to be creative and solve real life problems.

* color coded new words to expand their vocabulary.

* art activities to inspire them.

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