Life Science:
Water Ecosystems

Topsfield Schools Curriculum Resources

  Water Cycle Importance of Water Water and Weather Vernal Pools
Fresh Water Aquatic Biome Salt Water Working to Preserve the Earth
Water Conservation



This page is a comprehensive collection of Internet resources which enhance and are aligned with the Massachusetts Science Curriculum Frameworks and Science Curriculum maps developed by teachers in the Topsfield Public Schools. 

-Each topic includes a link to the standard it supports and to its corresponding curriculum map.  Essential Questions for the Science curriculum can be found at the bottom of this page by grade level.



Massachusetts Science Framework Topic

Characteristics of Living
and Non-living things

           Topsfield Public Schools Topic
View Science Curriculum Map

Gr. 1:  Organisms-Habitats
Gr. 2:  Organisms of the Salt Marsh, tidepools 
Gr. 3:  Water Cycle, Effects of water, Vernal Pools
Gr 4: Watershed
Gr. 5:  Coastal Ecology
Gr. 6:  River Ecology, Biomes, Vernal Pools


Essential Questions for Science:

Grade One
Grade Two
Grade Three
Grade Four
Grade Five
Grade Six

Created April, 2002
Web Design:  C. Perdigao
                        Topsfield Schools