SCIENCE

student will gain knowledge about scientific inquiry, and will develop the necessary abilities to perform scientific inquiries by:

Asking questions about objects, organisms, and events in underwater, woodland, and desert habitats
Accessing information from a variety of sources
Identifying the causes of natural human reflexes such as sneezing, burping, yawning, and crying
Exploring the answers to questions about nature
Planning and conducting simple explorations through active play
Using the senses, tools, and instruments to obtain information from his surroundings
Using simple experiments and observations to draw conclusions about an object’s physical properties
Communicating about scientific explorations and explanations through speaking, drawing, and writing
Exploring student-generated “what happens if” questions
Using appropriate safety procedures when completing scientific investigations
Using the five senses to make observations about the natural world
Drawing pictures that correctly portray features of the item being described
Recognizing that numbers can be used to count a collection of things
Measuring the lengths of objects using non-standard units of measurement
Recognizing the importance of accurate measurements
Making pictographs and using them to describe observations and to draw conclusions
Recognizing that information from multiple resources can be combined to make new observations

student will gain knowledge about scientific inquiry, and will develop the necessary abilities to perform scientific inquiries by:

Asking questions about objects, organisms, and events in underwater, woodland, and desert habitats
Accessing information from a variety of sources
Identifying the causes of natural human reflexes such as sneezing, burping, yawning, and crying
Exploring the answers to questions about nature
Planning and conducting simple explorations through active play
Using the senses, tools, and instruments to obtain information from his surroundings
Using simple experiments and observations to draw conclusions about an object’s physical properties
Communicating about scientific explorations and explanations through speaking, drawing, and writing
Exploring student-generated “what happens if” questions
Using appropriate safety procedures when completing scientific investigations
Using the five senses to make observations about the natural world
Drawing pictures that correctly portray features of the item being described
Recognizing that numbers can be used to count a collection of things
Measuring the lengths of objects using non-standard units of measurement
Recognizing the importance of accurate measurements
Making pictographs and using them to describe observations and to draw conclusions
Recognizing that information from multiple resources can be combined to make new observations

student will demonstrate an understanding of science as a human endeavor, and will examine the history and nature of science by:

Demonstrating curiosity and initiative during active play and explorations
Engaging in online activities to simulate a scientific exploration
Recognizing that in science, people work alone or as a team to share ideas and findings
Recognizing the use of science and technology in everyday lives
Recognizing that scientific investigations involve asking open-ended questions
Recognizing that some scientific theories are not wellaccepted at first and must be proven several time

student will develop and demonstrate an understanding of safety by:

Demonstrating personal and group safety when engaged in science
Describing the various resources in their environment
Recognizing the importance of water, minerals, rocks, dirt, and soil as natural resources and recognizing some of their use
Recognizing pollutants and some of their potential effects on the environment
Recognizing different types of energy sources such as solar, wind, water, electricity, and fuel/gas
Practicing conservation of resources
Interacting with living things and the environment in ways which promote respect
Recognizing that people influence the quality of life of those around them
Demonstrating ways science is practiced by people every day

student will develop and demonstrate an understanding about science, engineering, technology, and technological design, and demonstrate abilities of technological design by:

Recognizing that scientists and technologists use a variety of tools to obtain information in more detail and to make work easier
Identifying the wheel and axle, wedge, lever, screw, inclined plane, and pulley as simple machines and how they make work easier
Recognizing the importance of water, minerals, rocks, dirt, and soil as natural resources and recognizing some of their use
Recognizing that some tools are used to manipulate materials and connect pieces to make a functioning whole
Explaining how tools and technology are used at home and in society
Identifying ways that tools and technology are used to make our lives easier
Recognizing that tools and technology change over time as new inventions and ideas occur
Recognizing the objects can be sorted as “natural” or “man-made”
Understanding that some materials can be used over and over again
Recognizing that each kind of tool has an intended use, which can be helpful or harmful

student will develop and demonstrate a conceptual understanding of the characteristics of organisms, their life cycles, and their environments, and the structure and function of living systems, populations, and ecosystems on Earth by:

Recognizing selected characteristics of plants and animals that live in Africa, the Arctic, oceans, rivers, ponds, and rainforests
Recognizing that animals move in different ways
Recognizing that some animals will act together as a family to accomplish a common goal
Recognizing that some forms of life are too small to see without scientific equipment
Comparing the growth and change in living organisms
Developing respect, care, and sensitivity to the needs of living organisms in the environment
Exploring the differences between living and non-living things
Describing how plants and animals usually resemble their parents
Investigating variations that exist among individuals of the same species of plant or animal
Recognizing observable features of plants and animals that help them live in different kinds of places
Describing the habitats of many different kinds of local plants and animals and some of the ways in which animals depend on plants and each other in their community

student will develop and demonstrate a conceptual understanding of Earth materials, objects in the sky, and changes in Earth and sky, Earth’s system, history and place in the solar system, and the organization of Earth and other celestial bodies by:

Identifying and describing simple properties of rock, soil, and water
Identifying and describing different types of weather
Identifying and describing features of objects in the sky
Observing that the sun can be seen only in the daytime, but the moon can be seen sometimes at night and sometimes during the day
Exploring that animals and plants cause changes to their surroundings
Exploring that sometimes change is too fast to or too slow to see
Observing and describing day-to-day weather changes
Observing and describing seasonal changes in weather

student will develop and demonstrate a conceptual understanding of the organization of matter, motion, energy, forces, and transfer of energy, and interactions between them by:

Classifying objects according to observable properties
Exploring and explaining how physical properties may affect the motion of objects
Describing observable properties of light, heat, and magnets
Demonstrating that objects are made up of parts
Examining and describing objects according to the materials that make up the object
Describing and sorting objects by one or more properties
Exploring that things can be made to move in many different ways such as straight, zigzag, up and down, around in circles, back and forth, or fast and slow
Investigating ways to change how something is moving
Describing properties of the three states of matter