Pre-Kindergarten

PHYSICAL SCIENCE: Matter and Its Interactions

PHYSICAL SCIENCE: Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

LIFE SCIENCE: From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes

EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES: Earth’s Place in the Universe

EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCES: Earth and Human Activity

Use scientific tools such as magnets, magnifying glasses, scales, and rulers in investigations to determine that objects have properties and characteristics. (modified NGSS) Uses magnifying glass, binoculars and maps for investigation of the environment. (WMELS C.EL.2) Make comparisons between objects that have been collected or observed. (WMELS C.EL.2 )

Recognize and investigate cause and effect relationships in everyday experiences – pushing, pulling, kicking, rolling or blowing objects. (modified NGSS) Make comparisons between objects that have been collected or observed.(WMELS C.EL.2 )

Use observations and exploration to describe the natural processes of growing, changing, and adapting to the environment. (modified NGSS) Uses tools to gather information, compare observed objects, and seek answers to questions through active investigation. (WMELS Standard C.EL.2:)

Through investigations, identify and differentiate the different body parts that use the five senses by their attributes, (modified NGSS).   Uses observation to gather information, (WMELS Standard C.EL.1: ).    Uses tools to gather information, compare observed objects, and seek answers to questions through active investigation, (WMELS Standard C.EL.2:).    Forms explanations based on trial and error, observations, and explorations, (WMELS Standard C.EL.4).

Observe and describe patterns observed over the course of a number of days and nights, possibly including differences in the activities or appearance of plants and animals, (modified NGSS).   Uses observations to gather information. (WMELS Standard C.EL.1)

Describe how Earth’s materials have properties and characteristics that affect how we use those materials, (modified NGSS).   Use tools to gather information, compare observed objects, seek answers to question through active investigation, (WMELS Standard C.EL).

LEARNING TARGETS

I CAN STATEMENTS

LEARNING TARGETS

I CAN STATEMENTS

LEARNING TARGETS

I CAN STATEMENTS

LEARNING TARGETS

I CAN STATEMENTS

LEARNING TARGETS

I CAN STATEMENTS

LEARNING TARGETS

I CAN STATEMENTS

Make simple observations, predictions, explanations and generalization based on real life experiences.

With guidance collect, describe and record information through discussions, drawings and charts.

Use senses to gather information about objects and their properties.  (Suggestions: sink/float, magnetic, length/weight...)

Classify objects using a prescribed property.

Contribute information to a graph.

Read a graph with guidance.

Non-living things do not move by themselves.

Applied forces (pushes, pulls, air…) impact objects.

Magnets can be used to make something move without being touched.

Predict how an action will impact an object.

Understand how a push and pull are different.

Show that things move in different ways.

All living things grow, change and adapt to the environment.

Compare and contrast living and nonliving things.

Describe how living things change over time.

Sort items as living and nonliving.

Illustrate how living things change with the seasons.

Investigate how our ears allow us to hear sound differences, quality and direction.

Investigate how our skin enables us to use our sense of touch.

Investigate how our eyes provide us with our sense of sight.

Investigate how our nose provides us with our sense of smell.

Investigate how our mouth provides us with our sense of taste.

Identify volume and direction of sounds (ears).

Match a sound to its object (ears).

Associate touch with skin (skin).  (Note: humans experience the sense of touch with their skin. Move away from just hands but touch with arms, cheeks, feet.)

Sort objects by their attributes (skin).

Explain how the sense of sight protects me (eyes.)

Match a smell to its source (nose).

Distinguish between different taste (spicy, sweet…).

Identify, predict, and extend patterns based on observations and representations of objects in the sky, daily weather, and seasonal changes.

Living things undergo changes that are aligned with daily and seasonal patterns.

Record daily observations in weather.

Observe seasonal changes.

Predict weather based on seasons.

Compare how people, animals and plants respond to seasonal changes.

Identify the similarities and differences among various earth materials.

How do scientists study and describe Earth’s materials?

Associate different materials with different human uses.

List Earth’s materials (rocks, sand, soil, trees, water…).

Use scientific tools in investigations, and play with materials such as rocks, soil, sand, and water.

Ask testable question based on discoveries made while playing.

Sort rocks by various characteristics (shapes, size and color).

Match a material to its possible use(s).