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Yukon · Grade 4

Science

Living things sense and respond; matter can change phase; energy can be transformed

Yukon First Nations ways of knowing, doing and being are integrated in this subject, using Yukon content and resources.

Outline

Lessons for this subject are being written.

Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.

Curriculum strands

BBiology

How humans, animals and plants sense and respond to their environment; biomes

CChemistry

Phases of matter; effect of temperature on particle movement

PPhysics

Forms of energy; energy transformations; devices that transform energy; conservation

EEarth and Space Science

Effects of Earth's axis, rotation and orbit (day, night, seasons); phases of the moon, eclipses; First Peoples perspectives