Science StandardsShown by Grade Level
Kindergarten & First Grade K.P.1.1: Compare the relative position of various objects observed in the classroom and outside using position words such as: in front of, behind, between, on top of, under, above, below, and beside. Clarifying Objective K.P.1.2: Give examples of different ways objects and organisms move (to include falling to the ground when dropped): straight, zigzag, round and round, back and forth, fast and slow. K.P.2.1: Classify objects by observable properties (including size, color, shape, texture, weight and flexibility). Clarifying Objective K.P.2.2: Compare the observable properties of different kinds of materials (clay, wood, paper, cloth, etc.) from which objects are made and how they are used. K.E.1.1: Infer that change is something that happens to many things in the environment based on observations made using one or more of the senses. Clarifying Objective K.E.1.2: Summarize daily weather conditions noting changes that occur throughout the year. Clarifying Objective K.E.1.3: Compare weather patterns that occur season to season. Clarifying Objective K.L.1.1: Compare different types of the same animal (i.e., different types of dogs, different types of cats, etc.) to determine individual differences within a particular type of animal. Clarifying Objective K.L.1.2: Compare characteristics of living and nonliving things in terms of their:
First Grade
1.P.1 Forces and MotionEssential Standard 1.P.1: Understand how forces (pushes or pulls) affect the motion of an object.
Clarifying Objective 1.P.1.1: Explain the importance of a push or pull to changing the motion of an object. Clarifying Objective 1.P.1.2: Explain how some forces (pushes and pulls) can be used to make things move without touching them, such as magnets. Clarifying Objective 1.P.1.3: Predict the effect of a given force on the motion of an object, including balanced forces. 1.E.1 Earth in the UniverseEssential Standard 1.E.1: Recognize features and patterns of the Earth/Moon/Sun system as observed from Earth. Clarifying Objective 1.E.1.1: Recognize differences in the features of the day and night sky and apparent movement of objects across the sky as observed from Earth. Clarifying Objective 1.E.1.2: Recognize patterns of observable changes in the Moon's appearance from day to day. Essential Standard 1.E.2: Understand the physical properties of Earth materials that make them useful in different ways. Clarifying Objective 1.E.2.1: Summarize the physical properties of Earth materials, including rocks, minerals, soils, and water that make them useful in different ways. Clarifying Objective 1.E.2.2: Compare properties of soil samples from different places relating their capacity to retain water, nourish and support the growth of certain plants. Essential Standard 1.L.1: Understand characteristics of various environments and behaviors of humans that enable plants and animals to survive. Clarifying Objective 1.L.1.1: Recognize that plants and animals need air, water, light (plants only), space, food and shelter and that these may be found in their environment. Clarifying Objective 1.L.1.2: Give examples of how the needs of different plants and animals can be met by their environments in North Carolina or different places throughout the world. Clarifying Objective 1.L.1.3: Summarize ways that humans protect their environment and/or improve conditions for the growth of the plants and animals that live there (e.g., reuse or recycle products to avoid littering). Essential Standard 1.L.2: Summarize the needs of living organisms for energy and growth. Clarifying Objective 1.L.2.1: Summarize the basic needs of a variety of different plants (including air, water, nutrients, and light) for energy and growth. Clarifying Objective 1.L.2.2: Summarize the basic needs of a variety of different animals (including air, water, and food) for energy and growth. |
Second And Third GradeSecond Grade
Essential Standard 2.P.1: Understand the relationship between sound and vibrating objects. Clarifying Objective 2.P.1.1: Illustrate how sound is produced by vibrating objects and columns of air. Clarifying Objective 2.P.1.2: Summarize the relationship between sound and objects of the body that vibrate - eardrum and vocal cords. Essential Standard 2.P.2: Understand properties of solids and liquids and the changes they undergo. Clarifying Objective 2.P.2.1: Give examples of matter that change from a solid to a liquid and from a liquid to a solid by heating and cooling. Clarifying Objective 2.P.2.2: Compare the amount (volume and weight) of water in a container before and after freezing. Clarifying Objective 2.P.2.3: Compare what happens to water left in an open container over time as to water left in a closed container. Essential Standard 2.E.1: Understand patterns of weather and factors that affect weather. Clarifying Objective 2.E.1.1: Summarize how energy from the Sun serves as a source of light that warms the land, air, and water. Clarifying Objective 2.E.1.2: Summarize weather conditions using qualitative and quantitative measures such as:
Clarifying Objective 2.E.1.4: Recognize the tools that scientists use for observing, recording, and predicting weather changes from day to day and during the seasons. Essential Standard 2.L.1: Understand animal life cycles. Clarifying Objective 2.L.1.1: Summarize the life cycle of animals:
Essential Standard 2.L.2: Remember that organisms differ from or are similar to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism. Clarifying Objective 2.L.2.1: Identify ways in which many plants and animals closely resemble their parents in observed appearance and ways they are different. Clarifying Objective 2.L.2.2: Recognize that there is variation among individual organisms of a particular kind within a population. |
4th and 5th Grade4th Standards
Essential Standard 4.P.1: Explain how various forces affect the motion of an object. Clarifying Objective 4.P.1.1: Explain how magnets interact with all things made of iron and with other magnets to produce motion without touching them. Clarifying Objective 4.P.1.2: Explain how electrically charged objects push or pull on other electrically charged objects and produce motion. Essential Standard 4.P.2: Understand the composition and properties of matter before and after they undergo a change or interaction. Clarifying Objective 4.P.2.1: Compare the physical properties of samples of matter (strength, hardness, flexibility, ability to conduct heat, ability to conduct electricity, ability to be attracted by magnets, reactions to water and fire). Clarifying Objective 4.P.2.2: Explain how minerals are identified using tests for the physical properties of hardness, color, luster, cleavage, and streak. Clarifying Objective 4.P.2.3: Classify rocks as metamorphic, sedimentary, or igneous based on their composition, how they are formed and the processes that create them. Essential Standard 4.P.3: Recognize that energy takes various forms that may be grouped based on their interaction with matter. Clarifying Objective 4.P.3.1: Recognize the basic forms of energy (light, sound, heat, electrical, and magnetic) as the ability to cause motion or create change. Clarifying Objective 4.P.3.2: Recognize that light travels in a straight line until it strikes and object or travels from medium to another, and that light can be reflected, refracted, and absorbed. Essential Standard 4.E.1: Explain the causes of day and night and phases of the moon. Clarifying Objective 4.E.1.1: Explain the cause of day and night based on the rotation of the Earth on its axis. Clarifying Objective 4.E.1.2: Explain the monthly changes in the appearance of the moon, based on the moon's orbit around the Earth. Essential Standard 4.E.2: Understand the use of fossils and changes in the surface of the Earth as evidence of the history of the Earth and its changing life forms. Clarifying Objective 4.E.2.1: Compare fossils (including molds, casts, and preserved parts of plants and animals) to one another and to living organisms. Clarifying Objective 4.E.2.2: Infer ideas about Earth's early environments from fossils of plants and animals that lived long ago. Clarifying Objective 4.E.2.3: Give examples of how the surface of the Earth changes due to slow processes such as erosion and weathering, and rapid processes such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. Essential Standard 4.L.1: Understand the effects of environmental changes, adaptations and behaviors that enable animals (including humans) to survive in changing habitats. Clarifying Objective 4.L.1.1: Give examples of changes in an organism's habitat that are beneficial to it and some that are harmful. Clarifying Objective 4.L.1.2: Explain how animals meet their needs by using behaviors in response to information received from the environment. Clarifying Objective 4.L.1.3: Explain how humans can adapt their behavior to live in changing habitats (i.e., recycling wastes, establishing rain gardens, planting trees and shrubs to prevent flooding and erosion). Clarifying Objective 4.L.1.4: Explain how differences among animals of the same population sometimes give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing in changing habitats. Essential Standard 4.L.2: Understand food and the benefits of vitamins, minerals, and exercise. Clarifying Objective 4.L.2.1: Classify substances as food or non-food items based on their ability to provide energy and materials for survival, growth, and repair of the body. Clarifying Objective 4.L.2.2: Explain the role of vitamins and minerals, and exercise in maintaining a healthy body. 5th StandardsEssential Standard 5.P.1: Understand force, motion, and the relationship between them.
Clarifying Objective 5.P.1.1: Explain how factors such as gravity, friction, and change in mass affect the motion of objects. Clarifying Objective 5.P.1.2: Infer the motion of objects in terms of how far they travel in a certain amount of time and the direction in which they travel. Clarifying Objective 5.P.1.3: Illustrate the motion of an object using a graph to show a change in position over a period of time. Clarifying Objective 5.P.1.4: Predict the effect of a give force or a change in mass on the motion of an object. Essential Standard 5.P.2: Understand interactions of matter and energy and the changes that occur. Clarifying Objective 5.P.2.1: Explain how the Sun's energy impacts the processes the the water cycle (including evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, and run off). Clarifying Objective 5.P.2.2: Compare the weight of an object to the sum of the weight of its parts before and after an interaction. Clarifying Objective 5.P.2.3: Summarize properties of original materials, and the new material(s) formed, to demonstrate that a change has occurred. Essential Standard 5.P.3: Explain how the properties of some materials change as a result of heating and cooling. Clarifying Objective 5.P.3.1: Explain the effects of the transfer of heat (either by direct contact or at a distance) that occurs between objects at different temperatures (conduction, convection, radiation). Clarifying Objective 5.P.3.2: Explain how heating and cooling affect some materials and how this relates to their purpose and practical applications. Essential Standard 5.E.1: Understand weather patterns and phenomena, making connections to the weather in a particular place and time. Clarifying Objective 5.E.1.1: Compare daily and seasonal changes in weather conditions (including wind speed and direction, precipitation, and temperature) and patterns. Clarifying Objective 5.E.1.2: Predict upcoming weather events from weather data collected through observation and measurements. Clarifying Objective 5.E.1.3: Explain how global patterns such as the jet stream and water currents influence local weather in measurable terms such as temperature, wind direction and speed, and precipitation. Essential Standard 5.L.1: Understand how structures and systems of organisms (to include the human body) perform functions necessary for life. Clarifying Objective 5.L.1.1: Explain why some organisms are capable of surviving as a single cell while others require many cells that are specialized to survive. Clarifying Objective 5.L.1.2: Compare the major systems of the human body (digestive, respiratory, circulatory, muscular, skeletal, and cardiovascular) in terms of their functions necessary for life. Essential Standard 5.L.2: Understand the interdependence of plants and animals with their ecosystem. Clarifying Objective 5.L.2.1: Compare the characteristics of several common ecosystems, including estuaries and salt marshes, oceans, lakes and ponds, forests and grasslands. Clarifying Objective 5.L.2.2: Classify the organisms within an ecosystem according to the function they serve: producers, consumers, or decomposers (biotic factors). Clarifying Objective 5.L.2.3: Infer the effects that may result from the interconnected relationship of plants and animals to their ecosystem. Essential Standard 5.L.3: Understand why organisms differ from or are similar to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism. Clarifying Objective 5.L.3.1: Explain why organisms differ from or are similar to their parents based on the characteristics of the organism. Clarifying Objective 5.L.3.2: Give examples of likenesses that are inherited and some that are not. |