How to learn Kindergarten: Science

Virginia Standards of Learning: Science, Kindergarten

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1. Earth Resources

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. Earth and Space Systems

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. Living, Dead & Never Alive: Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive
3. Seasonal changes: Observe changes across the four seasons and describe weather associated with each season, including how day length varies
4. Local weather patterns: Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time, recording temperature, rainfall, and other conditions
5. 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
6. How Shadows Form: Recognise that shadows are formed when light from a source is blocked by an opaque object, and find patterns in how shadow size changes

3. Living Systems and Processes

1. Offspring resemble parents: Observe that young plants and animals resemble their parents but are not identical, recognising inherited similarities and individual differences
2. Life Cycles of Organisms: Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all share the common stages of birth, growth, reproduction, and death
3. What Living Things Need: Understand what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive: water, food, air, and suitable conditions
4. Living Things Vocabulary: Name and use vocabulary for what makes something living — alive, dead, never been alive, movement, nutrition, growth, reproduction, sensitivity, excretion — and apply these terms when classifying objects and explaining why plants and animals count as living things
5. Body Parts & Senses: Identify, name, and locate basic parts of the human body and associate each body part with its sense

4. Matter

1. Describing Material Properties: Describe simple physical properties of everyday materials such as hard/soft, stretchy/stiff, shiny/dull, rough/smooth, waterproof/absorbent, transparent/opaque

5. Force, Motion, and Energy

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