Grade K

Embedded Inquiry

Embedded Technology & Engineering

Life Science

Earth and Space Science

Physical Science

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Standard 1 - Cells

Standard 2 - Interdependence

Standard 3 - Flow of Matter and Energy

Standard 4 - Heredity

Standard 5 - Biodiversity and Change

Standard 6 - The Universe

Standard 7 – The Earth

Standard 8 - The Atmosphere

Standard 9 - Matter

Standard 10 - Energy

Standard 11 - Motion

Observe the world of familiar objects using the senses and tools.

Ask questions, make logical predictions, plan investigations, and represent data.

Explain the data from an investigation.

Use senses and simple tools to make observations.

Communicate interest in simple phenomena and plan for simple investigations.

Communicate understanding of simple data using age-appropriate vocabulary.

Collect, discuss, and communicate findings from a variety of investigations.

Recognize that both natural materials and human-made tools have specific characteristics that determine their use.

Apply engineering design and creative thinking to solve practical problems.

Explain how simple tools are used to extend the senses, make life easier, and solve everyday problems.

Invent designs for simple products.

Use tools to measure materials and construct simple products.

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Grade Level Expectations

Checks for Understanding

Recognize that many things are made of parts.

Use puzzles to determine that there are many parts that make up a whole.

Use building blocks to create a whole from the parts.

Take apart an object and describe how the parts work together.

Recognize that some things are living and some are not.

Know that people interact with their environment through their senses.

Categorize objects or images of objects as living or non-living according to their characteristics.

Use the senses to investigate and describe an object.

Recognize that living things require water, food, and air.

Observe plants and animals and make records of their similarities and differences.

Record information about the care, feeding, and maintenance of a living thing.

Observe how plants and animals change as they grow.

Observe that offspring resemble their parents.

Observe a plant to identify how it changes as it grows from a seed to the adult plant and record data using non-standard measurement devices.

Match pictures of seedlings to adult plants and a juvenile to the adult animal.

Compare the basic features of plants and animals.

Use a variety of representations to describe similarities and differences among plants and animals.

Create a mural of an ecosystem and compare the characteristics of animals and plants within that environment.

Match pictures of animal and plant characteristics needed for survival to appropriate environments.

Know the different objects that are visible in the day and night sky.

Create a Venn diagram to compare the objects that can be seen in the day and night sky.

Observe, discuss, and draw objects found in the day and night sky.

Identify non-living materials found on the surface of the earth.

Recognize that some objects are manmade and that some occur naturally.

Identify non-living materials found on the school site and discuss how these materials are similar and different.

Investigate and compare a variety of non-living materials using simple tools.

Observe familiar environments and make lists of natural and manmade objects.

Collect daily weather data at different times of the year.

Collect, compare, and record daily weather data during different seasons.

Infer the relationship between temperature and seasonal change by maintaining a paper chain on which dates are recorded and temperature described according to different colors.

Describe an object by its observable properties.

Identify objects and materials as solids or liquids.

Observe, identify, and compare the properties of various objects such as color, shape, and size.

Observe, discuss, and compare characteristics of various solids and liquids.

Identify the sun as the source of heat and light.

Investigate the effect of the sun on a variety of materials.

Place a thermometer in a sunny window and one in a shady area of the classroom and record the temperatures over time. Compare, discuss, and record any temperature differences.

Investigate the temperature differences in various locations around the school. Discuss and record the results.

Place a thermometer under pieces of different colored paper on a sunny window. Compare results and discuss possible causes.

Explore different ways that objects move.

Use a variety of objects to demonstrate different types of movement. (e.g., straight line/zigzag, backwards/forward, side to side, in circles, fast/slow).