How to learn Kindergarten: Science

Wisconsin academic standards: Science, Kindergarten

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1. Science and Engineering Practices · Obtain, Evaluate, and Communicate Information

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

2. Science and Engineering Practices · Argue from Evidence

1. Drawing conclusions from evidence: Report on findings from enquiries using oral and written explanations, draw simple conclusions, make predictions, and suggest improvements
2. Using evidence to answer questions: Identify differences, similarities, or changes related to scientific ideas and use straightforward scientific evidence to answer questions or support findings
3. 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

3. Science and Engineering Practices · Qualitative and Quantitative Data

1. Recording Data: Gather and record data using simple methods such as tables, tally charts, and drawings to help answer questions
2. Local weather patterns: Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time, recording temperature, rainfall, and other conditions
3. Choosing the Right Material: Identify and compare the suitability of everyday materials for particular uses, explaining why specific materials are chosen for specific purposes

4. Science and Engineering Practices · Defining Problems

1. Simple Design Problems: Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost

5. Science and Engineering Practices · Asking Questions

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

6. Earth and Space Science · Human Impacts on Earth Systems

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

7. Earth and Space Science · Natural Hazards

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

8. Earth and Space Science · Natural Resources

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

9. Earth and Space Science · Biogeology

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

10. Earth and Space Science · Weather and Climate

1. Types of Weather: Identify and describe different types of weather — sunny, rainy, windy, snowy, cloudy, foggy, stormy — and describe what the weather is like today using simple vocabulary
2. Weather vs Climate: Distinguish between weather and climate: weather is what the atmosphere is doing right now or today (it can change hour to hour), while climate is the typical pattern of weather in a place over many years

11. Earth and Space Science · The Roles of Water in Earth's Surface Processes

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

12. Earth and Space Science · Earth Materials and Systems

1. 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 and the Solar System

1. 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. Physical Science · Information Technologies and Instrumentation

1. Communication with Light & Sound: Design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance

15. Physical Science · Electromagnetic Radiation

1. Light & Seeing in the Dark: Observe that objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated by a light source

16. Physical Science · Wave Properties

1. Vibrations & Sound: Understand that vibrating materials can make sound, and that sound can make materials vibrate

17. Physical Science · Energy in Chemical Processes and Everyday Life

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

18. Physical Science · Relationships Between Energy and Forces

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

19. Physical Science · Chemical Reactions

1. 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

20. Physical Science · Structures and Properties of Matter

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

21. Life Science · Biodiversity and Humans

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

22. Life Science · 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

23. Life Science · Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems

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

24. Life Science · Information Processing

1. Animal Communication: Understand that animals communicate in many different ways — birds sing to attract mates and defend territory, whales call across vast ocean distances, bees dance to show other bees where food is, wolves howl to keep the pack together, and fireflies flash light signals — and that communication is essential for survival

25. Life Science · Growth and Development of Organisms

1. Animal Life Stages: Recognise that animals, including humans, have offspring which grow into adults, and describe basic animal life stages

26. Life Science · Structure and Function

1. 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

27. Engage · Models of Sustainability

1. 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

28. Explore · Natural Systems Emphasis

1. Seasonal changes: Observe changes across the four seasons and describe weather associated with each season, including how day length varies
2. Simple Food Chains: Describe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify different sources of food
3. 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

29. Explore · Systems Thinking

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)
2. Body Parts & Senses: Identify, name, and locate basic parts of the human body and associate each body part with its sense