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How to learn Kindergarten: Science

Massachusetts academic standards: Science, Kindergarten

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1. Physical Science · 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

2. Physical Science · 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

3. 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

4. Life Science · 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
  2. Seeds & Plant Growth: Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants through stages of germination and growth

5. Earth and Space Sciences · 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. Local weather patterns: Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time, recording temperature, rainfall, and other conditions

6. Earth and Space Sciences · 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

7. PHYSICAL SCIENCE · Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

  1. Light & Sound Vocabulary: Name and use vocabulary for how light and sound behave — light source, transparent, translucent, opaque, shadow, reflect, vibration, pitch, volume — and apply these terms correctly when describing observations about how light travels and how sounds are made and changed
  2. Vibrations & Sound: Understand that vibrating materials can make sound, and that sound can make materials vibrate

8. PHYSICAL SCIENCE · Matter and Its Interactions

  1. Objects vs Materials: Distinguish between an object and the material from which it is made, understanding that objects can be made from different materials
  2. Grouping Materials: Compare and group everyday materials based on their simple physical properties

9. LIFE SCIENCE · Variation of Traits

  1. Observing with simple equipment: Observe closely using simple equipment such as hand lenses, and use observations to describe, compare, and identify things
  2. Offspring resemble parents: Observe that young plants and animals resemble their parents but are not identical, recognising inherited similarities and individual differences

10. LIFE SCIENCE · Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

  1. 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
  2. Habitats & Basic Needs: Identify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how habitats provide for basic needs and how organisms depend on each other

11. LIFE SCIENCE · From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

  1. The Five Senses: Explore the five senses in detail: sight uses eyes to detect light, hearing uses ears to detect sound, touch uses skin to feel pressure and temperature, taste uses the tongue to detect flavours, and smell uses the nose to detect odours
  2. Animal Body Groups: Describe and compare the external body structure of common animals across groups (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals)

12. EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES · Earth’s Place in the Universe

  1. Sun, Moon & Stars: Identify the Sun, Moon, and stars as objects in the sky and describe basic differences: the Sun gives light and heat during the day, stars are tiny points of light at night, and the Moon can appear in both the day and night sky
  2. Our Solar System: Know that there are other planets besides Earth and that our group of planets orbiting the Sun is called the solar system — and that space is the vast area beyond Earth's sky