2020 Colorado Academic Standards Online
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clear Content Area: Science // Grade Level: Preschool // Standard Category: 1. Physical Science
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Preschool, Standard 1. Physical Science
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Prepared Graduates:
- 1. Students can use the full range of science and engineering practices to make sense of natural phenomena and solve problems that require understanding structure, properties and interactions of matter.
Preschool Learning and Development Expectation:
1. Recognize that physical properties of objects and/or materials help us understand the world.
Indicators of Progress:
By the end of the preschool experience (approximately 60 months/5 years old) students may:
- Use senses to explore the properties of objects and materials (e.g., solids, liquids).
- Make simple observations, predictions, explanations, and generalizations based on real-life experiences.
- Collect, describe, predict and record information using words, drawings, maps, graphs and charts.
- Observe, describe, and discuss living things and natural processes.
Examples of High-Quality Teaching and Learning Experiences:
Supportive Teaching Practices/Adults May:
- Provide a variety of materials and objects (i.e., solids and liquids) to encourage children to observe, manipulate, sort, and describe physical properties (e.g., size, shape, color, texture, weight) using their five senses as well as simple tools (e.g., magnifiers, balance scales, funnels).
- Provide opportunities for children to explore changes in matter (e.g., solids and liquids) when adding heat or cold, when mixing ingredients during cooking, when adding items to liquid (e.g., oil, pebbles).
- Provide each child with materials for experiments.
- Display child observations, predictions and projects.
Examples of Learning/Children May:
- Investigate changes in liquids and solids when substances are heated, cooled, combined etc.
- Predict outcomes when altering materials (liquids and solids) and record using journals, charts, graphs, technology or drawings.
- Participate in experiments, ask how and why questions.
- Draw connections between classroom experiments/investigation and real world experiences (e.g., “The water turned to ice like the lake next to my house because it was cold”).
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Prepared Graduates:
- 1. Students can use the full range of science and engineering practices to make sense of natural phenomena and solve problems that require understanding structure, properties and interactions of matter.
Preschool Learning and Development Expectation:
2. Recognize there are cause - and - effect relationships related to matter and energy.
Indicators of Progress:
By the end of the preschool experience (approximately 60 months/5 years old) students may:
- Recognize and investigate cause - and - effect relationships in everyday experiences (pushing, pulling, kicking, rolling or blowing objects).
- Notice change in matter.
- Observe, describe and discuss properties of materials and transformation of substances.
- Seek answers to questions and test predictions using simple experiments.
Examples of High-Quality Teaching and Learning Experiences:
Supportive Teaching Practices/Adults May:
- Provide opportunities for children to explore motion (e.g., fans and scarves, ramps and toy cars).
- Provide opportunities for children to investigate energy (e.g., heat, light, sound; investigate shadows, sort musical instruments and discuss different sounds made by particular movements; explore transparent properties on a light table).
- Provide opportunities for children to record observations in the changes of matter (e.g., ice melting at the sensory table).
- Facilitate inquiry by asking how and why questions to encourage children to make predictions and chart results.
Examples of Learning/Children May:
- Discover the higher the incline in a ramp (in block area) makes the car go farther.
- Explain that some magnets pull away and some come together.
- Identify when a change in matter occurs (ice melting, icicles forming, etc.).
- Identify how and why things move (e.g., using a balance, pushing structures over, how fast different objects move).
- Ask questions related to why things happen.
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