How to learn Kindergarten: Science

Connecticut academic standards: Science, Kindergarten

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1. Energy in the Earth's Systems

1. Seasonal changes: Observe changes across the four seasons and describe weather associated with each season, including how day length varies

2. Heredity and Evolution

1. Animals Everywhere: Know that animals live all over the world — on land, in water, and in the air — and that every continent, even icy Antarctica, is home to animals, each suited to the conditions where they live

3. Properties of Matter

1. Grouping Materials: Compare and group everyday materials based on their simple physical properties

4. Early learning experiences will support children to understand features of earth.

1. Reducing Human Impact: Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and other living things in the local environment
2. What Living Things Need: Understand what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive: water, food, air, and suitable conditions
3. Sunlight warms things up: Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface, noticing that sunlight warms the ground, water, and objects
4. Local weather patterns: Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time, recording temperature, rainfall, and other conditions

5. Early learning experiences will support children to understand physical sciences.

1. Heating & Cooling Changes: Observe and describe that some materials change state when heated or cooled, and measure the temperature at which changes occur in degrees Celsius
2. Choosing the Right Material: Identify and compare the suitability of everyday materials for particular uses, explaining why specific materials are chosen for specific purposes
3. Objects vs Materials: Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made, understanding that objects can be made from different materials
4. Pushes & Pulls: Understand that pushes and pulls are forces that can change the speed or direction of an object's motion, and compare the effects of different strengths and directions
5. Simple tests and experiments: Perform simple tests and use observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions

6. Early learning experiences will support children to understand patterns, process and relationships of living things.

1. Animal Life Stages: Recognise that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults, and describe basic animal life stages
2. Offspring resemble parents: Observe that young plants and animals resemble their parents but are not identical, recognising inherited similarities and individual differences
3. Grouping Living Things: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways based on observable features

7. Early learning experiences will support children to apply scientific practices.

1. Changing Your Mind with Evidence: Be willing to change your mind when evidence doesn't support your prediction — a result that surprises you is more valuable than one that confirms what you already thought
2. Recording Data: Gather and record data using simple methods such as tables, tally charts, and drawings to help answer questions
3. Asking scientific questions: Ask simple scientific questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways including observation, testing, and research