Year 1 of the primary science spiral. The seven units the student meets again in Grade 3 and again in Grade 4, taught here at the level of first tests — watching closely, keeping an honest notebook, sorting and grouping, and finding out by trying rather than by guessing.
This year carries the child out of the observation habits built in Nature Study K–1 and toward the formal method that Science Grade 4 opens by assuming.
Pacing: one lesson per week, 36 weeks.
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Course Instructor
Unit 1: Inquiry & Signs
What Is an Ayah? — Signs in the Book and Signs in the World
Watching Closely — The Eyes Allah Gave You
The Honest Notebook — Drawing What You Really See
Sorting and Grouping — Finding What Is Alike
Asking a Good Question — Wondering Is the Start
Unit 2: Earth & Space
Day and Night — The Earth That Turns
The Sun — Light and Warmth by Allah’s Permission
The Moon and the Hijri Month
Reading the Sky — Clouds and What They Bring
Weather Watch — A Month of Records
The Seasons — A Year That Comes Around
Unit 3: Matter & Materials
Solid, Liquid, Gas — Three Ways to Be
Water Changes — Melting, Freezing, Drying
What Dissolves? — A Test with Water
Materials and Their Jobs — Wood, Metal, Cloth, Clay
Floating and Sinking — Testing, Not Guessing
Unit 4: Life Science
Alive, Once Alive, Never Alive
What Plants Need — A Growing Test
Parts of a Plant and What Each One Does
Animal Bodies — Built for Where They Live
Life Cycles — The Butterfly and the Bean
Our Bodies — Bones, Muscles, and Breath
Unit 5: Ecology & Care of the Earth
Habitats Near Us — Who Lives Where
Food Chains — Who Eats Whom
Water Is a Trust — Wudu and Not Wasting
Rubbish and Recycling — Fasad or Islah?
Planting Something — The Hadith of the Sapling
Unit 6: Forces & Everyday Physics
Push and Pull — Making Things Move
Rolling, Sliding, Stopping — Testing Surfaces
Magnets — A Force You Cannot See
Light and Shadow — Where Light Cannot Reach
Sound — Making It, Changing It, Hearing It
Unit 7: Legacy & Capstone
Ibn al-Haytham — The Man Who Checked
Al-Biruni and the Habit of Measuring
My First Investigation — One Question, One Test
Year-End Share — What I Learned and Who Taught Me
