Grades K-2

Foundations: Air and Health

Young learners discover that air is real, explore what floats in it, learn how to keep air clean, and understand how to stay healthy.

Curriculum Units

Unit 1

Air Around Us

Is air real? Can we see it? Feel it? Students discover that air is all around us and that we need it to live.

4 lessons Complete
Unit 2

Tiny Things in Air

What floats in the air? Students see dust in sunlight, catch particles, and learn that some things are too small to see.

4 lessons Complete
Unit 3

Keeping Air Clean

How do we make air better? Students learn about filters, fresh air, and create a classroom clean air plan.

4 lessons Complete
Unit 4

When People Get Sick

What are germs? How do they spread? Students learn how to keep themselves and others healthy.

4 lessons Complete

Standards Coverage

NGSS Performance Expectations

  • K-PS2-1
    Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object
  • K-LS1-1
    Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals need to survive
  • 1-LS1-1
    Use materials to design a solution to a human problem
  • 2-PS1-1
    Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials
  • K-2-ETS1-1, K-2-ETS1-2
    Engineering Design: Define problems, develop solutions

Common Core Math

  • K.CC.A
    Know number names and the count sequence
  • K.MD.A
    Describe and compare measurable attributes
  • 1.MD.A.1
    Order three objects by length; compare lengths of two objects
  • 2.MD.D.9
    Generate measurement data and show data on a line plot