Cherry Brook Primary School Science Units The Connecticut State Board of Education believes that every student needs and deserves a rich and challenging education in science.  Such an education will promote essential understandings of the natural world and nurture students’ abilities to apply scientific knowledge to make informed and logical judgments about personal and societal issues.  Such an education requires that the fundamental approach to science is a creative process for investigating, reasoning, critiquing and communicating about ideas, not as a static body of facts to be memorized. Cherry Brook Primary School has adopted the Science and Technology for Children (STC) programfrom the National Science Resources Center (NSRC). Through various units of study, the students explore and clarify ideas, engage in hands-on explorations of objects, organisms, and science phenomena to be investigated, discuss their observations and reconcile their ideas, and apply their new ideas in new situations.  The following lists the various units per grade level:   Kindergarten                                   Properties of Matter  (Sorting and Counting)                            Structure and Function (Living vs. Nonliving Things)        Energy in the Earth’s Systems (Weather)        Science & Technology in Society (Shelters)   First Grade        Properties of Matter (Solids & Liquids)        Structure and Function (Organisms-Plants and Animals)        Heredity and Evolution (Butterflies)        Science & Technology in Society (Measurement)   Second Grade        Forces and Motion (Light and Shadows)        Structure and Function (Plants)        The Changing Earth (Soils)        Science & Technology in Society (Space Unit)   Third Grade        Properties of Matter (Heating & Cooling-Changes in Matter)        Matter & Energy in Ecosystems (Organisms & the Environment-Land & Water Adaptations)        The Changing Earth (Rocks & Minerals)        Science & Technology in Society (Conservation of Earth’s Materials)