In Northside, our concept-based curriculum for Science and Social Studies is interactive, hands-on, exploratory, and inquiry-based. This curriculum was developed using the required state standards within each content area and is designed to help students explore and learn about the world through observation, investigation, and communication. Students will engage in scientific and engineering practices and will design solutions to real-world problems. In grades K-4, we have created a curriculum that integrates Science and Social Studies standards, along with local story lines. In grade 5, the Science curriculum is a year-long study of general Science content and the Social Studies curriculum surveys the history of the United States.
2023-2024 Elementary Social Studies Goals
01: Use Best Practices in Social Studies Instruction
Incorporate opportunities for hands-on, interactive, and collaborative learning while teaching social studies content everyday.
02: Implement the NISD Curriculum
Utilize the 5E framework, content, resources, and assessments included in the district's integrated science & social studies curriculum.
03: Celebrate our Students
Celebrate the uniqueness of every student, everyday, through teaching the culture and citizenship strands and ensure all students are represented and respected in every classroom community.
Kallison's Science Department
The Kallison Science Department is dedicated to enriching our student's understanding of our planet, our solar system and the processes/functions that allow us to live our lives. Through TEK based instruction and activities/LABS, our students build an understanding of what makes life possible and how we as animals fit in the "systems of life". Those systems that include everyday phenomena and everything we know about our world and beyond. Our goal is that through education, our students will have a better appreciation for plants, animals and everything else that is needed for everything and everyone to co-exist on our planet.