Grade Level Performance Indicator Progression for Science
Kids Invent Correlation with Standards
Benchmarks Grade 1
Correlation
Notes
SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION
 
 
Collect, record, and organize data using simple tools, equipment, and techniques safely
All invention projects
Explain the results of an investigation to an audience using simple data organizers (e.g., charts, graphs, pictures)
All invention projects, creating and showing invention models
NATURE OF SCIENCE
 
 
Explain why people create technological devices
Included in discussion of inventions
Describe a variety of changes that occur in nature
Concepts discussed with invention projects
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
 
 
Identify the requirements of plants and animals to survive (e.g., food, air, light, water)
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN ORGANISMS
 
 
Describe how living things have strucutres that help them to survive
DIVERSITY, GENETICS, AND EVOLUTION
 
 
Identify ways in which the same kinds of plants and the same kinds of animals differ
Describe the physical characteristics of living things that enable them to live in their environment
NATURE OF MATTER 
 
 
Identify solids, liquids, and gases, and their basic properties
In activities involving chemicals, Spring 2007
FORCE AND MOTION
 
 
Describe how the motion of an object can be changed by force (push or pull)
Inventions involving motion, every series of classes
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
 
 
Describe that the sun warms the land, air, and water