Product Description

Pages: 186

Grade level: appropriate for K- 2nd grade

Product type: Looseleaf Student Pages to use with the RSO Life level one course.

What are the Student Pages?  The RSO Life Level One Student Pages provide an additional copy of all of the pages from the Life course that are consumable. This includes all of the lab worksheets and all of the “For My Notebook” reading pages found in the main textbook. The Student Pages are intended for those using the textbook with more than one student. They do not provide anything “extra” to the course.

RSO Life 1 Course Description

 

You will find R.E.A.L. Science Odyssey (RSO) to be unlike any other science curricula available. Most notably, it is secular. Only scientific inquiry and theory based on empirical and measurable evidence are understood to be valid and standard science in all of our RSO courses.

Also, RSO courses are written specifically for home and small group use. Packed full of serious science and loads of fun, RSO is an incremental program that gently builds on itself and incorporates mathematics, scientific method, and science terminology. Created with the science novice in mind, you don’t need any science background to teach RSO.

RSO Life (level one) is divided into three sections: the human body, the animal kingdom, and the plant kingdom. Students study the major body systems through making models and doing tests on their own bodies. Classification and the five kingdoms of living things are studied as students make an animal kingdom book. Animal kingdom labs include examining real worms, mollusks, arthropods, and butterfly metamorphosis. Students learn about the plant kingdom through looking at the makeup and function of seeds, flowers, leaves, stems, and roots.

The following is a list of topics your child will learn during the year while completing Life (level one). Each topic and/or subtopic will include 1 to 3 lessons complete with lesson story, labs, reading, and other activities. Each topic will take anywhere from 1 to 4 weeks to complete. Remember your child will also be having a whole lot of fun. Also included in this scope are laughing, playing, digging, exploring, reading, singing, and begging for more RSO!

RSO Life (Level 1) Scope and Sequence

• Living vs. nonliving
• Living characteristics

• Cell, nucleus, membrane, vacuole, chloroplast

• Introduction to the Five Kingdoms of Living Things
• How and why scientists classify things

• Skeletal and muscular systems- structure and function
• Circulatory system- structure and function, blood and blood types
• Respiratory system- structure and function
• Digestive system – structure and function
• Nervous system – structure and function, five senses
• Growth and genetics – stages of growth and inheritance

• Cnidarians
• Worms
• Mollusk
• Echinoderm
• Arthropod (insects, arachnids, and crustaceans)
• Invertebrates vs. vertebrates
• Chordate (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals)

• Seeds (parts and function)
• Flowers (parts and function)
• Leaves (photosynthesis and types)
• Stems and Roots (types and functions)

Important Copyright Information: If you choose the eBook version of this course, you are purchasing a license to use the PDF for your own children. You may make copies for your own children, but you may not share (email, download, print and distribute, resell, etc.) this eBook or any portion of this eBook to others.

Licensing is available for group, school, and co-op use. Please contact Pandia Press for details on group licensing (kate@pandiapress.com).