| Preschool Academic Standards | Teaching Strategies GOLD | HighScope COR | Colorado Building Blocks | Head Start Child Development & Early Learning Framework |
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1 - Objects have properties and characteristics a - Use senses to gather information about objects |
Science and Technology 24 - Uses scientific inquiry skills - - |
Initiative C - Initiating Play 1 - Child engages in exploratory play. Language and Literacy R - Using vocabulary 1 - Child talks about people or objects close at hand. 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 - Objects have properties and characteristics b - Make simple observations, predictions, explanations, and generalizations 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 DD - Identifying sequence, change, and causality 5 - Child explains that an event or change happens because of something else. |
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. |
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. |
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1 - Objects have properties and characteristics c - Collect, describe, and record information through discussion, drawings, and charts |
Cognitive 14 - Uses symbols and images to represent something not present a - Thinks symbolically 6 - Plans and then uses drawings, constructions, movements, and dramatizations to represent ideas |
Mathematics and Science DD - Identifying sequence, change, and causality 2 - Child describes a sequence of events. |
Science 2 - Scientific Knowledge Children learn about the development of the natural and physical world. a - Collect, describe and learn to record information through discussion, drawings and charts. |
Science Knowledge & Skills Scientific Skills & Method: The skills to observe and collect information and use it to ask questions, predict, explain, and draw conclusions. Collects, describes, and records information through discussions, drawings, maps, and charts. |
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2 - There are cause-and-effect relationships in everyday experiences a - Recognize and investigate cause-and-effect relationships in everyday experiences – pushing, pulling, kicking, rolling, or blowing objects |
Science and Technology 26 - Demonstrates knowledge of the physical properties of objects and materials - - |
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 2 - Scientific Knowledge Children learn about the development of the natural and physical world. c - Investigate changes in materials and cause-effect relationships. |
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. Recognizes cause and effect relationships. |