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How to learn Kindergarten: Science

Indiana academic standards: Science, Kindergarten

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1. Engineering Design

  1. Modelling with Sketches: Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem
  2. Comparing Design Solutions: Analyse data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of each design

2. Earth and Human Activity

  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. Weather Forecasting & Safety: Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting and how people prepare for and respond to severe weather
  3. Plants and animals in their habitats: Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals and the places they live, connecting organism needs to habitat features

3. Earth's Systems

  1. How Organisms Shape Habitats: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals can change the environment to meet their needs
  2. Local weather patterns: Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time, recording temperature, rainfall, and other conditions

4. From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

  1. What Living Things Need: Understand what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive: water, food, air, and suitable conditions

5. Energy

  1. 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
  2. Building shade from the sun: Use tools and materials to design and build a structure that will reduce the warming effect of sunlight on an area, such as a shade or shelter

6. Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

  1. 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
  2. Testing Push & Pull Designs: Analyse data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or pull

7. Obtaining, Evaluating and Communicating Information · Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information in K–2 builds on prior experiences and uses observations and texts to communicate new informa

  1. Drawing conclusions from evidence: Report on findings from enquiries using oral and written explanations, draw simple conclusions, make predictions, and suggest improvements
  2. Recording Data: Gather and record data using simple methods such as tables, tally charts, and drawings to help answer questions

8. Planning and Carrying out Investigations · Planning and carrying out investigations to answer questions or test solutions to problems in K–2 builds on prior experiences and progresses to simple invest

  1. Simple tests and experiments: Perform simple tests and use observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions

9. Asking Questions and Defining Problems · Asking questions and defining problems in K–2 builds on prior experiences and progresses to simple descriptive questions that can be tested.

  1. Asking scientific questions: Ask simple scientific questions and recognise that they can be answered in different ways including observation, testing, and research

10. Physical Science · Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

  1. Light & Seeing in the Dark: Observe that objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated by a light source
  2. Communication with Light & Sound: Design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance
  3. Transparent, Translucent & Opaque: Investigate the effect of placing objects made of different materials in the path of a beam of light, discovering transparent, translucent, and opaque materials
  4. Vibrations & Sound: Understand that vibrating materials can make sound, and that sound can make materials vibrate

11. Physical Science · Matter and Its Interactions

  1. States of Matter Vocabulary: Name and distinguish the three states of matter — solid, liquid, and gas — using properties vocabulary: hard, rigid, runny, flows, keeps its shape, fills its container; use 'change of state' to describe what happens when materials are heated or cooled
  2. 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
  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. Choosing the Right Material: Identify and compare the suitability of everyday materials for particular uses, explaining why specific materials are chosen for specific purposes

12. Earth and Space Science · Earth's Systems

  1. Where water is found on Earth: Identify where water is found on Earth and understand that water can exist as solid (ice) or liquid, recognising water in oceans, rivers, glaciers, and underground
  2. Preventing Erosion: Compare multiple solutions designed to slow or prevent wind or water from changing the shape of the land

13. Earth and Space Science · Earth's Place in the Universe

  1. Fast & Slow Earth Changes: Understand that Earth's surface changes: some changes are quick (eruptions, earthquakes) and some are slow (wind, water wearing away rock)
  2. Sun, Moon, and stars: Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe predictable patterns such as the sun rising and setting, the moon changing shape, and stars appearing at night

14. Life Science · Biological Evolution: Unity and Diversity

  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

15. Life Science · Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits

  1. Offspring resemble parents: Observe that young plants and animals resemble their parents but are not identical, recognising inherited similarities and individual differences

16. Life Science · Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

  1. What Plants Need to Grow: Understand that plants need water, light, and a suitable temperature to grow and stay healthy

17. Life Science · From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

  1. Animal Life Stages: Recognise that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults, and describe basic animal life stages
  2. Parts of a Plant: Identify and describe the basic structure of common flowering plants (roots, stem, leaves, flowers) and trees (roots, trunk, branches, leaves)
  3. How Plant Parts Work: Identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots absorb water and nutrients, stems transport materials, leaves make food, flowers enable reproduction

18. Physical Science · Demonstrate awareness of the physical properties of objects

  1. Classifying Materials: Plan and conduct an investigation to classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties