Science Curriculum

Kindergarten

Course Purpose:

 Kindergarten students will ask and answer questions to determine cause and effect relationships.

Outcomes and Components:

SC.K.1 Students will make observations to describe how different objects move and evaluate the effects of different strengths and directions of pushes and pulls. Students will design a solution to change the effects of pushes and pulls.

Pacing  

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Assess

Component Code

Component

Standard(s)
  SC.K.1.1 Define and distinguish between pushes and pulls and types of interactions between objects. K-PS2-1
  SC.K.1.2 Explain how pushes and pulls on objects can change the speed and direction of objects.

K-PS2-1

K-PS2-2
  SC.K.1.3 Illustrate the cause and effect relationship between the force of a push or pull and the speed of the object. K-PS2-1
  SC.K.1.4 Conduct simple tests to evaluate the effectiveness of design solutions intended to change the speed or direction of an object.

K-PS2-2

K-2-ETS1-3

Academic Vocabulary: describe, distinguish, explain, change, test, cause, effect, evaluate, solution

Content Vocabulary: push, pull, speed, direction, force, speed