The Clark County School District K-5 science curriculum consists of both content knowledge and process skills. Students’ natural curiosity is encouraged as they learn about the world around them, living things, technology, and the nature of scientific practices. Students build skills in using evidence when presenting information or developing explanations. Mathematics and literacy are important components of elementary science education.

Program Outcomes
Curriculum Overviews K-2 (PDF)
Curriculum Overviews 3-5 (PDF)

Within an inquiry-based science program, elementary students will:
• Understand that many decisions require critical consideration of scientific evidence.
• Appreciate the complexity and diversity of living things, their interactions and interdependencies, and their connections to their physical environment.
• Begin to understand scientific explanations within physical science, earth and space science, and life and environmental science.
• Understand that science is an active and ongoing process of systematically examining the natural world and that all students can participate.