Science
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In our ever-changing world, understanding and internalizing scientific content is critical to success and achievement. Broward County Schools is committed to developing these vital skills through hands-on activities and high-quality instruction that is focused on the Scientific Big Ideas. These Big Ideas are grade specific; however, they flow through all grade levels and build in rigor as students matriculate through each grade. In kindergarten, your child’s science instruction will include opportunities to interact with content associated with the following Big Ideas: The Practice of Science, Earth in Space and Time, Forms of Energy, Motion of Objects, Forces and Changes, Properties of Matter, Changes in Matter, and Organization and Development of Living Things. Below you will find what your child will be learning for each Big Idea.
The Kindergarten Student:
In The Practice of Science,
- collaborates with a partner to collect information.
- makes observations of the natural world and knows that they are descriptors collected using the five senses.
- keeps records as appropriate – such as pictorial records – of investigations conducted.
- observes and creates a visual representation of an object, which includes its major features.
- recognizes that learning can come from careful observation.
In Earth in Space and Time,
- explores the Law of Gravity by investigating how objects are pulled toward the ground unless something holds them up.
- recognizes the repeating patterns of day and night.
- recognizes that the Sun can only be seen in the daytime.
- observes that sometimes the Moon can be seen at night and sometimes during the day.
- observes that things can be big and things can be small as seen from Earth.
- observes that some objects are far away and some are nearby as seen from Earth.
In Properties of Matter,
- sorts objects by observable properties, such as size, shape, color, temperature (hot or cold), weight (heavy or light) and texture.
In Changes in Matter,
- recognizes that the shape of materials such as paper and clay can be changed by cutting, tearing, crumpling, smashing, or rolling.
In Forms of Energy,
- observes that things that make sound vibrate.
In Motion of Objects,
- investigates that things move in different ways, such as fast, slow, etc.
In Forces and Changes in Motion,
- observes that a push or a pull can change the way an object is moving.
In Organization and Development of Living Organisms,
- recognizes the five senses and related body parts.
- recognizes that some books and other media portray animals and plants with characteristics and behaviors they do not have in real life.
- observes plants and animals, describes how they are alike and how they are different in the way they look and in the things they do.