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Core Content and Skills
Science K
2008-2009
BOE Approved

Healthy Habits  Content   Skills  Personal Hygiene   Demonstrate healthy restroom/personal hygiene Practice handwashing skils     Using my senses to learn about me in my world  Content   Skills  The external parts of the body Personal attributes   Label body, head, shoulders, arms, hands, fingers, legs, knees, feet, elbow, hips, calf, ankle, thigh Sort or group according to eye color, hair color, gender, ear shape, tongue rolling,etc

Apples  Content   Skills  Apples   Identify and recall the Apple Tree Cycle Identify and Label Parts of an Apple Name Colors of Apples

Using my senses to learn/appreciate Science  Content   Skills  The five senses Science behaviors   Conect prior knowledge to science activities communicate info orally work cooperatively Use materials carefully

Using my senses to learn about/appreciate science  Content   Skills  The five senses Science behaviors   handle the mystery box and use prior knowledge of problem solving with the box generate open ended questions to investigate that may help to solve the mystery cooperate with partners and communicate results to partner and describe how they revised their observations use senses to predict what objects are in a mystery box

Using my senses to learn about me in my world  Content   Skills  The five senses    Identify the 5 senses  Match the sense to the associated body part Discover that light is needed to see color and observe objects under different light conditions Compare, contrast, record and interpret their results as to the function of eyes Match and discriminate between sounds of objects in film canisters

Using my senses to learn about me in my world  Content   Skills  The five senses    identify and use nose function Identify smells and match them to appropriate names Predict the color and flavor of jelly beans and compare this with the actual color and flavor Describe the tastes sweet/salty, name a food that tastes sweet/salty and understand that taste is not dependent on smell Use sense of touch to identify, classify, sort  and match textures

Using our senses to learn about other living things  Content   Skills  Living/ Non-Living things   create a class chart of living and non living things articulate reasons for placement of an item in a specific category name 3 charactieristics of a living thing that will show it is alive

Classify Living and Non-living Things  Content   Skills  Plants Animals   Identify living and non-living things. Identify needs of living things. Identify purposes of non-living things.     Using my senses to learn about other living things in my world  Content   Skills  Animals/ Newts   describe the needs of various pets. Suggest what pets might be suitably kept in an aquarium habitat Generate a question based on their observation of the newts in the classroom Work cooperativley to plan and carry out an experiment or research a topic to find out the answer to that question Record their results share their results with the class

Using my senses to learn about non-living things in my world  Content   Skills  Non Living Things Bubbles   Make predictions based on previous experiences Observe carefully the changes that occur Draw conclusions from their observations identify the senses being used state the existing colors at the beginning of the activity Identify the colors that make green, purple, and orange Identify the colors that make green, purple, and orange Explore and describe the properties of the products List the ingredients to make the bubble mixture Describe how to make bubbles with air, bubble mixture and a tool