| Preschool Academic Standards | Teaching Strategies GOLD | HighScope COR | Colorado Building Blocks | Head Start Child Development & Early Learning Framework |
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1 - Earth’s materials have properties and characteristics that affect how we use those materials a - Use senses to gather information about Earth’s materials |
Science and Technology 27 - Demonstrates knowledge of Earth’s environment - - |
Mathematics and Science FF - Identifying natural and living things 0 - Child watches, picks up, examines, or uses a natural object or material. |
Science 2 - Scientific Knowledge Children learn about the development of the natural and physical world. b - Use tools and their senses to make observations, gather and record information and make predictions about what might happen. |
Science Knowledge & Skills Scientific Skills & Method: The skills to observe and collect information and use it to ask questions, predict, explain, and draw conclusions. Uses senses and tools, including technology, to gather information, investigate materials, and observe processes and relationships. |
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1 - Earth’s materials have properties and characteristics that affect how we use those materials b - Make simple observations, explanations, and generalizations about Earth’s materials based on real-life experiences |
Cognitive 12 - Remembers and connects experiences b - Makes connections 6 - Draws on everyday experiences and applies this knowledge to a similar situation |
Mathematics and Science FF - Identifying natural and living things 4 - Child identifies a change (in a material or the environment) and a possible cause. |
Science 3 - Scientific Skills and Methods Children begin to use scientific tools and methods to learn about their world. b - Make simple observations, predictions, explanations and generalizations based on real life experiences. |
Science Knowledge & Skills Scientific Skills & Method: The skills to observe and collect information and use it to ask questions, predict, explain, and draw conclusions. Describes and discusses predictions, explanations, and generalizations based on past experience. |
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1 - Earth’s materials have properties and characteristics that affect how we use those materials c - Describe how various materials might be used based on characteristics or properties |
Science and Technology 26 - Demonstrates knowledge of the physical properties of objects and materials - - Science and Technology 27 - Demonstrates knowledge of Earth’s environment - - |
No Match |
Science 3 - Scientific Skills and Methods Children begin to use scientific tools and methods to learn about their world. a - Explore the natural processes of growing, changing and adapting to the environment. |
Science Knowledge & Skills Conceptual Knowledge of the Natural & Physical World: The acquisition of concepts and facts related to the natural and physical world and the understanding of naturally-occurring relationships. Observes, describes, and discusses properties of materials and transformation of substances. |
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2 - Events such as night, day, the movement of objects in the sky, weather, and seasons have patterns a - Identify, predict, and extend patterns based on observations and representations of objects in the sky, daily weather, and seasonal changes |
Mathematics 23 - Demonstrates knowledge of patterns - 6 - Extends and creates simple repeating patterns Science and Technology 27 - Demonstrates knowledge of Earth’s environment - - |
No Match |
Science 3 - Scientific Skills and Methods Children begin to use scientific tools and methods to learn about their world. c - Explore time, temperature and cause-effect relationships based on everyday experiences. |
Logic & Reasoning Reasoning & Problem Solving: The ability to recognize, understand, and analyze a problem and draw on knowledge or experience to seek solutions to a problem. Uses past knowledge to build new knowledge. Science Knowledge & Skills Conceptual Knowledge of the Natural & Physical World: The acquisition of concepts and facts related to the natural and physical world and the understanding of naturally-occurring relationships. Observes, describes, and discusses living things and natural processes. |
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2 - Events such as night, day, the movement of objects in the sky, weather, and seasons have patterns b - Observe and describe patterns observed over the course of a number of days and nights, possibly including differences in the activities or appearance of plants and animals |
Mathematics 23 - Demonstrates knowledge of patterns - 6 - Extends and creates simple repeating patterns Science and Technology 27 - Demonstrates knowledge of Earth’s environment - - |
No Match |
Science 3 - Scientific Skills and Methods Children begin to use scientific tools and methods to learn about their world. a - Explore the natural processes of growing, changing and adapting to the environment. Science 3 - Scientific Skills and Methods Children begin to use scientific tools and methods to learn about their world. a - Explore the natural processes of growing, changing and adapting to the environment. Science 3 - Scientific Skills and Methods Children begin to use scientific tools and methods to learn about their world. b - Make simple observations, predictions, explanations and generalizations based on real life experiences. |
Science Knowledge & Skills Conceptual Knowledge of the Natural & Physical World: The acquisition of concepts and facts related to the natural and physical world and the understanding of naturally-occurring relationships. Observes, describes, and discusses living things and natural processes. |