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How to learn Kindergarten: Science

Michigan academic standards: Science, Kindergarten

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1. Weather and Climate

  1. Weather Forecasting & Safety: Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting and how people prepare for and respond to severe weather
  2. Local weather patterns: Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time, recording temperature, rainfall, and other 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. 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. Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Animals, Plants, and Their Environment

  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. 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. How Organisms Shape Habitats: Construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals can change the environment to meet their needs

3. Forces and Interactions: Pushes and Pulls

  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

4. Children show a growing understanding of scientific knowledge related to living and non-living things. · 5 Years

  1. What Living Things Need: Understand what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive: water, food, air, and suitable conditions
  2. Caterpillar to butterfly: Caterpillar to butterfly: the life cycle of a butterfly as an observable transformation. Egg → caterpillar → chrysalis → butterfly. The idea that one creature can change its whole form. Classroom butterfly kits, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

5. Children show a growing understanding of scientific knowledge related to living and non-living things. · 4 Years

  1. Living, Dead & Never Alive: Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive
  2. Seeds & Plant Growth: Observe and describe how seeds and bulbs grow into mature plants through stages of germination and growth
  3. Seasonal changes: Observe changes across the four seasons and describe weather associated with each season, including how day length varies

6. Children show a growing understanding of scientific knowledge related to living and non-living things. · 3 Years

  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

7. Children show a growing understanding of the scientific principles related to the earth. · 4 Years

  1. Dressing for the Weather: Choose appropriate clothing and equipment for different weather conditions — coat and umbrella for rain, sun hat and sunscreen for hot sun, warm layers for cold — understanding that weather affects what we do and how we prepare each day

8. Children show a growing understanding of the scientific principles related to the earth. · 5 Years

  1. Earth Is Made of Rock: Understand that Earth is made of rock and other solid materials

9. Children show a growing understanding of the scientific principles related to the earth. · 3 Years

  1. Properties of materials: Compare and group different kinds of rocks based on their appearance and simple physical properties such as hardness, texture, and colour

10. Children show a growing understanding of the scientific principles of physical science. · 5 Years

  1. Why seasons change: Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year, noticing longer days in summer and shorter days in winter
  2. 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

11. Children show a growing understanding of the scientific principles of physical science. · 4 Years

  1. Ice & Snow: Know that water can be solid (ice and snow) or liquid, that snow is made of tiny frozen ice crystals, that icebergs are huge chunks of ice floating in the ocean with most of their bulk hidden underwater, and that ice floats because it is lighter than liquid water

12. Children explore and demonstrate curiosity about the world around them. · 3 Years

  1. Could there be another explanation?: For any result, ask: is there another explanation? — the first explanation that fits isn't always the right one, and good scientists actively look for alternatives

13. Children explore and demonstrate curiosity about the world around them. · 5 Years

  1. Parts of a Plant: Identify and describe the basic structure of common flowering plants (roots, stem, leaves, flowers) and trees (roots, trunk, branches, leaves)