Quebec Grades 3–6 science curriculum

Outcome Designs and makes models and devices with appropriate tools and materials, and examines mistakes to find their source (the build-test-fix cycle of the three challenges).

Lessons: Build It, Launch It (Can you drop an egg without breaking it?, What makes a paper plane fly farthest?, How does a rocket push itself into space?)

Practice: Build It, Launch It workbook · Your Senses: How Does Your Body Know? workbook · Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up workbook · Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better workbook · Monsoon Science: Rain, Sun and the Nón Lá workbook · Evidence Lab workbook · How Your Body Works workbook · Keep It Cool: Ice, Insulation and Staying Comfortable workbook · Winter Science: Ice, Snow and Staying Warm workbook · Think Like a Scientist: The Scientific Method workbook · Test the Claim: Science Facts, Myths and AI Answers workbook · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe workbook

Outcome Uses simple machines, mechanisms or electrical components to design or make an object (the burglar alarm switch).

Lessons: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up

Practice: Simple Circuits: Make It Light Up workbook · Power Up: Where Electricity Comes From workbook · Living with Water: Salt, Rice and the Mekong workbook

Outcome Appropriately uses simple measuring instruments (thermometer), and designs and makes measuring instruments and prototypes (the bottle thermometer).

Lessons: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move

Practice: Hot and Cold: Particles on the Move workbook · Hot Stuff: Heat, Temperature and Cooling workbook · Steppe Science: Staying Warm on the Kazakh Steppe workbook

Outcome Designs and makes environments (e.g. aquarium, terrarium, incubator, greenhouse). The sealed-jar world.

Lessons: Our Living Planet (Can a jar keep itself alive?, Where does rain come from?)

Practice: Our Living Planet workbook · Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? workbook

Outcome Describes the impact of human activity on the environment (e.g. use of resources, pollution, waste management).

Lessons: Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better

Practice: Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better workbook · Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact workbook

Outcome Explains the scientific and technological concepts associated with recycling and composting (a partial match: sorting waste into landfill, recycling and compost).

Lessons: Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better

Practice: Earth Day Investigations: Make Your School Better workbook · Our Changing Planet: Resources and Human Impact workbook

Outcome Explains the scientific concepts associated with recycling and composting, including the food chain (a partial match for the decomposer lesson).

Lessons: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom?

Practice: Food Webs: Who Eats Whom? workbook · Our Living Planet workbook

Outcome Appropriately uses simple measuring instruments (thermometer, wind vane, etc.). Students take schoolyard temperatures the same way each time.

Lessons: Weather Detectives (Why does a chinook feel like spring in January?, Is it hotter by the slide?, Why do farmers care about the last frost?)

Practice: Weather Detectives workbook

Outcome Designs and makes measuring instruments and prototypes (a later-cycle match: the rain gauge and wind sock).

Lessons: Weather Watchers: What Will the Sky Do Today? (What's the weather like today?, Which way is the wind blowing?, How much rain fell?)