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Kindergarten students focus on three disciplinary core ideas: physical science, earth and space science, and life science.
In physical science, students explore pushes and pulls, speed and direction, and learn about the sun’s energy.
In earth and space science, students study weather conditions, learn about the measurement of weather, and learn how living things impact the environment. Students also learn how plants and animals can change the environment to meet their needs. Students learn about how how humans can reduce their impact on the land, water, and air in our local environment. They also learn about the relationship between plants’ and animals’ needs and their environment.
In life science, students investigate what plants and animals need to survive.
SAU 15 Science Competencies
SAU 15 Science Competencies
- Students will work collaboratively to make observations and predictions in order to answer testable questions and use their senses, tools and materials to find possible solutions to simple problems.
- Students will observe patterns in the natural world (including human), develop questions to investigate, make connections, and support connections with evidence.
- Students will investigate causal relationships that generate observable patterns and explain their thinking with evidence.
- Students will describe and compare objects, situations, or events using relative scale and standard and nonstandard measurement tools, units, and attributes when making observations or solving problems.
- Students will explain how the parts of systems work together (e.g., an environment, including the animals and plants) in order to function effectively.
- Students will investigate, observe and describe solids, liquids, and gases, and what happens when matter and energy is manipulated (e.g., heated, cooled, disassembled, reassembled).
- Students will observe, demonstrate, and explain how the shape and stability of structures of natural or designed objects are related to their functions.
- Students will distinguish between changes in natural systems that happen rapidly and changes that happen over time.
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