Science
Grade 1: Smithsonian Science Topics and Disciplinary Core Ideas Covered
How Can We Send a Message Using Sound? (1/27/20 – 4/13/20)
Disciplinary Core Ideas
Sound can make matter vibrate, and vibrating matter can make sound.
People use a variety of devices to communicate (send and receive information) over long distances.
A situation that people want to change or create can be approached as a problem to be solved through engineering. Such problems may have many acceptable solutions.
Before beginning to design a solution, it is important to clearly understand the problem.
Asking questions, making observations, and gathering information are helpful in thinking about problems.
Designs can be conveyed through sketches, drawings, or physical models. These representations are useful in communicating ideas for a problem’s solutions to other people.
Because there is always more than one possible solution to a problem, it is useful to compare and test designs.
Grade 1 Standards and Disciplinary Core Ideas for:
Topic: Is a Day Always the Same Length? (4/20/20 - 6/22/20)
Students who demonstrate understanding can:
1-ESS1-1.
Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted. [Clarification Statement: Examples of patterns could include that the sun and moon appear to rise in one part of the sky, move across the sky, and set; and stars other than our sun are visible at night but not during the day.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment of star patterns is limited to stars being seen at night and not during the day.]
1-ESS1-2.
Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on relative comparisons of the amount of daylight in the winter to the amount in the spring or fall.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to relative amounts of daylight, not quantifying the hours or time of daylight.]
ESS1.A: The Universe and its Stars
ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System
· Seasonal patterns of sunrise and sunset can be observed, described, and predicted. (1-ESS1-2)
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