Grade Level Performance Indicator Progression for Science
	Kids Invent Correlation with Standards
Benchmarks Grade K	Correlation	Notes
SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION
Use the senses to make observations	√	All invention projects
Ask questions about the world around them	√	All invention projects
Collect data about living and non-living things
NATURE OF SCIENCE
Identify different types of technolgies at home, in the classroom, and/or in the world	√	In discussions of invention projects
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Identify similarities and difference between plants and animals
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION IN ORGANISMS
Identify differences between living and non-living things
DIVERSITY, GENETICS, AND EVOLUTION
Identify ways in which some offspring are very much like their parents, although not exactly
NATURE OF MATTER
Classify objects by their attributes (e.g., physical properties, materials of which they are made)	√	In discussion of science concepts
FORCE AND MOTION
Identify that objects that will fall to the ground unless something is holding them up	√	Projects related to gravity, all series
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
Report and describe weather changes from day to day and over the seasons
Identify different types of celestial objects seen in the day and night sky