Science Curriculum in Brief (Common Core)

This is a broad outline of topics according to US Common Core. There are many subtopics which
are not included in this list. We customize the topics according to State curriculum.

Grade 2

Ch 1 Plants and their parts
Ch 2 Flowers and Fruits
Ch 3 Plants Grow and Change
Ch 4 Plants and their homes
Ch 5 Kinds of Animals
Ch 6 Mammals
Ch 7 Animals and Eggs
Ch 8 How animals look and act
Ch 9 Rocks
Ch 10 Rocks Change
Ch 11 Soil
Ch 12 Fossils
Ch 13 Finding clues and Fossils
Ch 14 Natural Resources
Ch 15 Plant and Animal Resources
Ch 16 Position
Ch 17 Motion
Ch 18 Pushes and Pulls
Ch 19 Changing Motions
Ch 20 Tools and Machines
Ch 21 Gravity
Ch22 Magnets Push and Pull
Ch 23 Sound

Grade 3

Ch 1 Adaptations in Land Environments
Ch 2 Adaptations in Water environments
Ch 3 Environments Change
Ch 4 Our Earth, Sun and Moon
Ch 5 Our Solar System
Ch 6 Matter
Ch 7 Energy
Ch 8 Light

Grade 4

Ch 1 living things need Energy
Ch 2 Living Things and their environment
Ch 3 Rocks and Minerals
Ch 4 Slow changes on Earth
Ch 5 Fast changes on Earth
Ch 6 Electricity
Ch 7 Magnetism

Grade 5

Ch 1 Structure of living things
Ch 2 Plant Structures and Functions
Ch 3 Human Body Systems
Ch 4 Earth’s Water
Ch 5 Earth’s Weather
Ch 6 The Solar System
Ch 7 Types of Matter

Ch 8 Changes in Matter

Grade 6

Ch 1 Earth Science
Ch 2 Composition of Earth
Ch 3 Surface Processes on Earth
Ch 4 The Atmosphere and the oceans
Ch 5 The Dynamic Earth
Ch 6 Geological Time
Ch 7 Resources and the Environment
Ch 8 Beyond Earth

Grade 7 Life Science

Ch 1 Studying Life
Ch 2 Living Things
Ch 3 Interactions of Living Things
Ch 4 Chemistry and Physics Connections
Ch 5 Cell Structures and Function
Ch 6 Cell Processes
Ch 7 The Microscopic World
Ch 8 Reproduction
Ch 9 Heredity
Ch 10 The Code of Life
Ch 11 Evolution
Ch 12 Earth and Life history
Ch 13 The Diversity of Life
Ch 14 Plants

Ch 15 Animals
Ch 16 Human Body Systems
Ch 17 Support and Movement
Ch 18 Vision and Hearing

Grade 8

Ch 1 The Nature of Science
Ch 2 Science Technology and Society
Ch 3 Motion, Acceleration and Forces
Ch 4 The Laws of Motion
Ch 5 Energy
Ch 6 Work and Machines
Ch 7 The Earth, Moon and Sun System
Ch 8 The Solar System
Ch 9 Heat and States of matter
Ch 10 Waves
Ch 11 Sound and light
Ch 12 Earth Internal Processes
Ch 13 Electricity
Ch 14 Magnetism
Ch 15 Electromagnetic Radiation
Ch 16 Energy Resources
Ch 17 Weather and climate
Ch 18 Classification of matter
Ch 19 Properties of Atoms and the Periodic table
Ch 20 Earth’s Materials
Ch 21 Earth’s changing Surface

Ch 22 Chemical Bonds
Ch 23 Chemical Reactions
Ch 24 Solutions, Acids and Bases
Ch 25 Nuclear Changes
Ch 26 Stars and Galaxies

Grade 9

Ch 1 Ecology
Ch 2 The Cell
Ch 3 Genetics
Ch 4 History of Biological Diversity
Ch 5 Bacteria, Viruses, Protists and Fungi
Ch 6 Plants
Ch 7 Invertebrates
Ch 8 Vertebrates
Ch 9 The Human Body
Ch 10 Chemistry

Grade 10

Ch 1 Introduction to Chemistry
Ch 2 Data Analysis
Ch 3 Matter – Properties and Changes
Ch 4 The Structure of the Atom
Ch 5 Electrons in Atoms
Ch 6 The periodic Table and Periodic Law
Ch 7 The Elements
Ch 8 Ionic Compounds
Ch 9 Covalent Bonding

Ch 10 Chemical Reactions
Ch 11 The Mole
Ch 12 Stoichiometry
Ch 13 States of Matter
Ch 14 Gases
Ch 15 Solutions
Ch 16 Energy and Chemical Change
Ch 17 Reaction Rates
Ch 18 Chemical Equilibrium
Ch 19 Acids and Bases
Ch 20 Redox Reactions
Ch 21 Electrochemistry
Ch 22 Hydrocarbons
Ch 23 Substituted Hydrocarbons and their reactions
Ch 24 The Chemistry of life
Ch 25 Nuclear Chemistry
Ch 26 Chemistry in the Environment

Grade 11 AP Physics

Ch 1 Introduction: The Nature of Science and Physics
Ch 2 Kinematics
Ch 3 2-Dimensional Kinematics
Ch 4 Dynamics: Force and Newton’s Law of Motion
Ch 5 Further Applications of Newton’s Laws: Friction, Drag and Elasticity
Ch 6 Uniform circular motion and Gravitation
Ch 7 Work, Energy and Energy Resources
Ch 8 Linear Momentum and collisions
Ch 9 Statics and Torque

Ch 10 Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum
Ch 11 Fluid Statics
Ch 12 Fluid Dynamics and its Biological and Medical applications
Ch 13 Temperature, Kinetic Theory and Gas Laws
Ch 14 Heat and Heat Transfer Methods
Ch 15 Thermodynamics
Ch 16 Oscillatory Motion and Waves
Ch 17 Physics of Hearing