Grade 1 Science Curriculum Standards
Friday, 29 July 2011 05:44
Our new science curriculum is based on a multi-year review and analysis of the Curriculum Topic Study materials by our K-12 science curriculum team. The Benchmarks for Science Literacy form the basis for the benchmarks that are set for each grade level. The bold-faced standards are the MDIRSS essential standards and the standards in regular font are supporting standards. Click on the green bold-faced MDIRSS essential standards to see the unpacked version, list of resources, and corresponding performance rubric for that standard.
Scientific Process Skills:
- Ask questions
- Design and conduct investigations
- Use appropriate tools and models
- Collect, organize, and analyze data
- Support explanations with evidence
- Collaborate, network, and communicate
- Make local and global connections
- Understand implications of science and technology
1. The Nature of Science
1B.4. When people give different descriptions of the same thing, it is usually a good idea to make some fresh observations instead of just arguing about who is right.
1C.2. In doing science, it is often helpful to work with a team and to share findings with others. All team members should reach their own individual conclusions, however, about what the findings mean.
The Nature of Technology
3A.1. Tools are used to do things better or more easily and to do some things that could not otherwise be done at all. In technology, tools are used to observe, measure, and make things.
3A.2. When trying to build something or to get something to work better, it usually helps to follow directions if there are any or to ask someone who has done it before for suggestions.
3C.1. People, alone or in groups, are always inventing new ways to solve problems and get work done. The tools and ways of doing things that people have invented affect all aspects of life.
Physical Sciences
4F.3. Understand that things that make sound vibrate.
Life Sciences
5A.1. Understand that some animals and plants are alike in the way they look and in the things they do, and others are very different from one another.
5B.1. Understand there is variation among individuals of one kind within a population.
5C.2. Understand that most living things need water, food, and air.
5F1. Understand that different plants and animals have external features that help them thrive in different kinds of places.
5F.2. Understand some kinds of organisms that once lived on Earth have completely disappeared, although they were something like others that are alive today.
The Human Organism
6A.1. People have different external features, such as the size, shape, and color of hair, skin, and eyes, but they are more like one another than like other animals.
6B.2. A human baby grows inside its mother until its birth. Even after birth, a human baby is unable to care for itself, and its survival depends on the care it receives from adults.
6C.1. Recognize that the human body has parts that help it seek, find, and take in food when it feels hunger—eyes and a nose for detecting food, legs to get to it, arms to carry it away, and a mouth to eat it.
6C.2. Understand that senses can warn individuals about danger; muscles help them to fight, hide, or get out of danger.
6C.3. The brain enables human beings to think and sends messages to other body parts to help them work properly.
6D.1. People use their senses to find out about their surroundings and themselves. Different senses give different information.
6D.2. Some of the things people do, like playing soccer, reading, and writing, must be deliberately learned. Practicing helps people to improve. How well one learns sometimes depends on how one does it and how often and how hard one tries to learn.
Understand that people can learn from each other by telling and listening, showing and watching, and imitating what others do.
6E.1. Eating a variety of healthful foods and getting enough exercise and rest help people to stay healthy.
6F.1. People have many different feelings—sadness, joy, anger, fear, etc. about events, themselves, and other people.
6F.2. People react to personal problems in different ways. Some ways are more likely to be helpful than others.
Human Society
7A.1. Different families or schools have different rules and patterns for behavior. Some behaviors are not accepted in most families or schools. People often choose to dress, talk, and act like their friends. They also often choose to do certain things in their own way.
7B.1. People are born into some groups, placed into some groups, and choose to join some groups.
7D.1.
- Getting something one wants may mean giving up something in return.
- Different people may make different choices for different reasons.
- Choices have consequences, some more serious than others.
7E.3. People often trade things they have for things that they want.
7F.1. Disagreements may occur between family members, friends, and others. Rules at home, at school, and in the community let people know how to behave and what to expect from others and so can reduce the number of disputes.
The Designed World
8A.1.
- Most food comes from farms either directly as crops or as the animals that eat the crops.
- To grow well, plants need enough warmth, light, and water.
- Crops must be protected from weeds and pests.
8A.2. Part of a crop may be lost to pests or spoilage.
8A.3. A crop that is fine when harvested may spoil before it gets to consumers.
8A.4a. Machines improve what people get from crops by helping in planting and harvesting.
8A.4b. Machines keep food fresh by packaging and cooling and move the food long distances from where it is grown to where people live.
8A.2. Several steps are usually involved in making things.
8B.4. Some objects can be used over again.
8E.1. There are different ways to store things so they can easily be found later.
8E.2. Letters and numbers can be used to put things in a useful order.
The Mathematical World
1. Similar patterns may show up in many places in nature and in the things people make. 9B
1. Circles, squares, triangles, spheres, cubes, cylinders and other shapes can be observed in things found in nature and in things that people build. 9C
1a. Some things are more likely to happen than others. 9D
1d. Some events can be predicted well and some cannot. 9D
2. Often a person can find out about a group of things by studying just a few of them. 9D
Common Themes
1. Most things are made of parts. 11A
3. When parts are put together, they can do things that they couldn't do by themselves. 11A
2. A model of something is different from the real thing but can be used to learn something about the real thing. 11B
3a. An object can change in various ways, such as in size, weight, color, or temperature. 11C
1. Things in nature and things people make have very different sizes, weights, ages, and speeds. 11D
Habits of Mind
1. Raise questions about the world and be willing to seek answers to these questions by making careful observations and trying things out. 12A
1. Use hammers, screwdrivers, clamps, and scissors to shape materials and fasten them together. 12C
3. Make something out of paper, cardboard, cloth, wood, plastic, metal, or existing objects that can actually be used to perform a task. 12C
4. Measure the length in whole units of objects using rulers and tape measures. 12C
1. Ask "How do you know?" in appropriate situations and attempt reasonable answers when others ask the same question. 12E