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