Integrating Science, Technology, and Health is organized around major concepts and skills that are basic to science education. The following paragraphs describe broadly the concepts and skills that are central to the content and activities at each grade level. Awareness of Myself and My World SFLL develops young children s awareness of themselves and their world by capitalizing on children s natural curiosity. The program encourages children to ask questions about themselves and their world and to find their own answers to those questions, to communicate to others what they find out, to care for themselves and other living things and to find out what happens to objects if they change one variable or another.
People also impose order on the world.
Organization is the process of imposing order on the world by putting objects or events into a desired arrangement or meaningful grouping. Students learn about order and organization in the world through experiences with objects and properties, materials and structures and safety and security. Specifically, in the science unit, students use properties of objects as criteria for sorting them into groups or arranging them in a sequence. In the technology unit, they select a material for a certain purpose according to the properties of the material. In the health unit, students learn that by following safety rules, such as wearing safety belts and knowing what to do in case of fire, they can prevent injuries to themselves and others.