Science

• Observe, ask questions, and make predictions.
• Participate in planning and conducting investigations, and recording data.
• Demonstrate safe behavior and appropriate procedures (e.g., use of instruments, materials, organisms) in all science inquiry.
• Participate in guided investigations in life, physical, and Earth and space sciences
• Organize (e.g., compare, classify, and sequence) objects, organisms, and events according to various characteristics.
• Communicate observations with pictographs, pictures, models, and/or words.
• Give examples of how diverse people (e.g., children, parents, weather reporters, cooks, healthcare workers, gardeners) use science in daily life.
• Describe how simple tools (e.g., scissors, pencils, paper clips, hammers) can make tasks easier.
• Understand that basic structures in plants and animals serve a function.
• Distinguish between living things and nonliving things.
• Identify the five senses and their related body parts: sight – eyes hearing – ears smell – nose taste – tongue touch – skin
• Understand the life cycles of plants and animals.
• Identify some plants and animals that exist in the local environment.
• Identify that plants and animals need the following to grow and survive:
• Describe changes observed in a small system (e.g., ant farm, plant terrarium, aquarium).
• Classify objects and materials by their observable properties.
• Identify the following observable properties of objects using the senses:
• Investigate how applied forces (push and pull) can make things move.
• Investigate how forces can make things move without another thing touching them (e.g., magnets, static electricity).
• Sort materials according to whether they are or are not attracted by a magnet.
• Identify familiar everyday uses of magnets (e.g., in toys, cabinet locks, decoration).
• Identify the basic properties of Earth materials.
• Identify rocks, soil, and water as basic Earth materials.
• Compare physical properties (e.g., color, texture, capacity to retain water) of basic Earth materials.
• Classify a variety of objects as being natural or man-made.
• Identify ways some natural or man-made materials can be reused or recycled (e.g., efficient use of paper, recycle aluminum cans).
• Understand characteristics of weather conditions and climate.
• Identify the following aspects of weather:
• Describe observable changes in weather.
• Give examples of how the weather affects people’s daily activities.