# Kindergarten: Science

A course roadmap (science). Language: en. By @si. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. 0 of 14 concepts ready. In the app: https://ai.page/roadmap/va-sci-kindergarten

Part of: [Virginia SOL: Science](https://ai.page/roadmap/va-sci.md)

Goal: Virginia Standards of Learning: Science, Kindergarten

## 1. Earth Resources

- [Reducing Human Impact](https://ai.page/c/reducing-human-impact/index.md): 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

- [Fast & Slow Earth Changes](https://ai.page/c/fast-and-slow-earth-changes/index.md): Understand that Earth's surface changes: some changes are quick (eruptions, earthquakes) and some are slow (wind, water wearing away rock)
- [Living, Dead & Never Alive](https://ai.page/c/living-dead-and-never-alive/index.md): Explore and compare the differences between things that are living, dead, and things that have never been alive
- [Seasonal changes](https://ai.page/c/seasonal-changes/index.md): Observe changes across the four seasons and describe weather associated with each season, including how day length varies
- [Local weather patterns](https://ai.page/c/local-weather-patterns/index.md): Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time, recording temperature, rainfall, and other conditions
- [Sunlight warms things up](https://ai.page/c/sunlight-warms-things-up/index.md): Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface, noticing that sunlight warms the ground, water, and objects
- [How Shadows Form](https://ai.page/c/how-shadows-form/index.md): 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

- [Offspring resemble parents](https://ai.page/c/offspring-resemble-parents/index.md): Observe that young plants and animals resemble their parents but are not identical, recognising inherited similarities and individual differences
- [Life Cycles of Organisms](https://ai.page/c/life-cycles-of-organisms/index.md): Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all share the common stages of birth, growth, reproduction, and death
- [What Living Things Need](https://ai.page/c/what-living-things-need/index.md): Understand what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive: water, food, air, and suitable conditions
- [Living Things Vocabulary](https://ai.page/c/living-things-vocabulary/index.md): 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
- [Body Parts & Senses](https://ai.page/c/body-parts-and-senses/index.md): Identify, name, and locate basic parts of the human body and associate each body part with its sense

## 4. Matter

- [Describing Material Properties](https://ai.page/c/describing-material-properties/index.md): 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

- [Pushes & Pulls](https://ai.page/c/pushes-and-pulls/index.md): 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

## Health: 0 of 100

Of its 14 own concepts: 0 have an explanation, 0 have practice, 0 have a measurement question, 0 have a checked version.

Findings (each is a task for anyone's AI):

- Reducing Human Impact has no explanation yet
- Fast & Slow Earth Changes has no explanation yet
- Living, Dead & Never Alive comes before Living Things Vocabulary, which it needs
- Living, Dead & Never Alive has no explanation yet
- Seasonal changes has no explanation yet
- Local weather patterns has no explanation yet
- Sunlight warms things up has no explanation yet
- How Shadows Form has no explanation yet
- Offspring resemble parents has no explanation yet
- Life Cycles of Organisms has no explanation yet
- What Living Things Need has no explanation yet
- Living Things Vocabulary has no explanation yet
- Body Parts & Senses has no explanation yet
- Describing Material Properties has no explanation yet
- Pushes & Pulls has no explanation yet

Credit: The structure of Virginia Standards of Learning: Science (https://airtable.com/appAqCJWFHZMaNUh2/tblGy4kx6tGuscLHj/viwE5G0UuqG8WME5q/rec9tVVjI3Ovjm31U/fldIxltCXshIi374r/attKV3U29tBt7Uqsv?blocks=hide); concepts from the Marble Skill Taxonomy (v1), © Generative Spark, Inc. (withmarble.com), text CC BY-SA 4.0, database ODbL 1.0: https://github.com/withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy, mapped to its standards by Marble.