Kindergarten Science Alabama Standards

Plan and carry out investigations to determine the effects of forces of different strengths and directions on the motion of an object, including speed, direction, and distance traveled.

Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about using weather forecasts to make plans and prepare for severe weather.

Identify a problem and design possible solutions that lessen the human impact on the local environment.

Analyze data from investigations to determine whether a design solution provides sufficient force to change the speed or direction of an object.

Use data from observations to distinguish characteristics of living and nonliving things.

Use observations to determine patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive, including light, water, and nutrients.

Gather information from observations and media to explain how plants and animals can provide for their needs by changing their environment.

Use models of natural habitats to represent the interdependence among plants and animals native to their community.

Make observations and describe the effects of sunlight on Earth’s surface.

Design, construct, and test a device to reduce the effects of sunlight.

Observe, record, and communicate local weather patterns over a period of time.

Patterns

Cause and Effect

Earth’s Systems

Systems and System Models

Earth and Human Activity

Interdependent Relationships

Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

Structures and Processes

Human Impact

Cause and Effect

Changes in Motion

Patterns

Cause and Effect

Energy Transfer

Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Weather

Patterns: Patterns in the natural and human-designed world can be observed, used to describe phenomena, and used as evidence.

Cause and Effect: Mechanism and Prediction: Events have causes that generate observable patterns. Simple tests can be designed to gather evidence to support or refute students’ ideas about causes.

Scale, Proportion, and Quantity: Relative scales allow objects and events to be compared and described (e.g., bigger and smaller; hotter and colder; faster and slower). Standard units are used to measure length.

Systems and System Models: Objects and organisms can be described in terms of their parts. Systems in the natural and designed world have parts that work together.

Energy and Matter: Flows, Cycles, and Conservation: Objects may break into smaller pieces, be put together into larger pieces, or change shapes.

Structure and Function: The shape and stability of structures of natural and designed objects are related to their function(s).

Stability and Change: Some things stay the same while other things change. Things may change slowly or rapidly.

Asking Questions and Defining Problems: s Formulating simple descriptive questions that can be tested.

Developing and Using Models: Using and developing models that represent concrete events or design solutions, including diagrams, drawings, physical replicas, dioramas, dramatizations, or storyboards.

Planning and Carrying Out Investigations: Designing and conducting simple investigations, based on fair tests, which provide data to support explanations or design solutions.

Analyzing and Interpreting Data: Collecting, recording, and sharing observations.

Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking: Recognizing ways that mathematics can be used to describe the natural and designed world(s).

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions: Using evidence and ideas in constructing evidence-based accounts of natural phenomena and designing solutions.

Engaging in Argument from Evidence: Comparing ideas and representations about the natural and designed world(s).

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information: Using observations and texts to gather and communicate new information

Science and Engineering Practices (SEPs)

Crosscutting Concepts (CCCs)

Ecosystems: Interactions, Energy, and Dynamics

Earth’s Systems

Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

Investigate ways to move different objects to include pushing, pulling, and colliding objects.

Associate seasons of the year with various weather conditions and identify how to prepare for certain conditions (e.g., tornados, floods, snow).

Observe the movement of objects in a variety of real-world environments.

Recognize living and nonliving things.

Recognize that plants and animals need water and light to survive.

Identify ways plants and animals alter their environment to live.

Participate in the construction and/or care of a model habitat of plants and animals native to Alabama.

Give examples of the sun’s effects on Earth (limited to heat and light).

Participate in the construction of a device to reduce the effects of sunlight.

Participate in daily weather activities with common symbols (e.g., sun, cloud, rain, wind, snowflake).