To create a custom lesson, click on the check boxes of the files you’d like to add to your
lesson and then click on the Build-A-Lesson button at the top.
Click on the resource title to View, Edit, or Assign it.
MD.1.0.Skills and Processes: Students will demonstrate the thinking and acting inherent in the practice of science.
Skills and Processes: Students will demonstrate the thinking and acting inherent in the practice of science.
1.A.1. Constructing Knowledge: Raise questions about the world around them and be willing to seek answers to some of them by making careful observations and trying things out.1.A.1.a. Describe what can be learned about things by just observing those things carefully and adding information by sometimes doing something to the things and noting what happens.
1.A.1.c. Use tools such as thermometers, magnifiers, rulers, or balances to extend their senses and gather data.
1.A.1.g. Use whole numbers and simple, everyday fractions in ordering, counting, identifying, measuring, and describing things and experiences.
1.C.1. Communicating Scientific Information: Ask, 'How do you know?' in appropriate situations and attempt reasonable answers when others ask them the same question.1.C.1.b. Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion.
1.D.1. Technology: Design and make things with simple tools and a variety of materials.1.D.1.b. Recognize that tools are used to do things better or more easily and to do some things that could not otherwise be done at all.
MD.2.0.Earth/Space Science: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the chemical and physical interactions (i.e., natural forces and cycles, transfer of energy) of the environment, Earth, and the universe that occur over time.
Earth/Space Science: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the chemical and physical interactions (i.e., natural forces and cycles, transfer of energy) of the environment, Earth, and the universe that occur over time.
2.A.1. Materials and Processes That Shape A Planet: Investigate objects and materials in the environment.2.A.1.a. Observe and describe a variety of natural and human-made objects found in familiar environments (school, neighborhood, etc.).
2.A.1.b. Examine and describe Earth materials: rocks; soil; water.
2.A.1.c. Using examples, describe that objects and materials, such as trees, rocks, and hills on Earth's surface can change.
2.D.1. Astronomy: Observe celestial objects that are visible in the day and night sky.2.D.1.a. Identify and describe the sun, moon and stars.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The Sky
2.D.1.b. Describe ways in which the daytime and nighttime skies are different.
2.E.2. Interactions of Hydrosphere and Atmosphere: Investigate and gather information about changes in weather.2.E.2.a. Observe and describe different weather conditions using senses.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Weather
2.E.2.b. Record observations using pictures, pictographs, or written/oral language.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Weather
2.E.2.c. Describe qualitative changes in weather, such as temperatures, precipitation, wind, etcQuiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Weather
MD.3.0.Life Science: The students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the dynamic nature of living things, their interactions, and the results from the interactions that occur over time.
Life Science: The students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the dynamic nature of living things, their interactions, and the results from the interactions that occur over time.
3.A.1. Diversity of Life: Observe a variety of familiar animals and plants (perhaps on the school grounds, in the neighborhood, and at home) to discover patterns of similarity and difference among them.3.A.1.a. Identify and describe features (observable parts) of animals and plants that make some of them alike in the way they look and the things they do.
3.A.1.b. Compare descriptions of the features that make some animals and some plants very different from one another.
3.A.1.c. Identify a feature that distinguishes animals that fly (as an example) from animals that cannot and examine a variety of animals that can fly to discover other similar features they might share.
3.A.1.d. Compare ideas about how the features of animals and plants affect what these animals are able to do.
3.A.2. Diversity of Life: Gather information and direct evidence that humans have different external features, such as size, shape, etc., but that they are more like one another than like other animals.3.A.2.c. Describe similarities in what both humans and other animals are able to do because they possess certain external features.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Human body
3.C.1. Genetics: Observe, describe and compare the life cycles of different kinds of animals and plants.3.C.1.a. Identify and draw pictures that show what an animal (egg to frog) and a plant (seed to tree) looks like at each stage of its life cycle.
3.C.1.b. Describe and compare the changes that occur in the life cycle of two different animals, such as a frog and a puppy and two different plants, such as a rosebush and a maple tree.
3.D.1. Evolution: Recognize that living things are found almost everywhere in the world and that there are somewhat different kinds of living things in different places.3.D.1.a. Observe, describe, and give examples and describe the many kinds of living things found in different places in Maryland.
3.D.1.b. Using pictures, films and illustrated texts identify, describe and compare living things found in other states such as Texas and Alaska to those found in Maryland.
3.D.1.c. Explain that the external features of plants and animals affect how well they thrive in different kinds of places.
3.E.1. Flow of Matter and Energy: Develop an awareness of the relationship of features of living things and their ability to satisfy basic needs that support their growth and survival.3.E.1.a. Make observations of the features and behaviors of many different kinds of animals within an environment to identify and begin building a list of some of the basic needs these organisms share, such as water, air, etc.
3.E.1.c. Make observations of the features of many different kinds of plants within an environment to identify and begin building a list of some of the basic needs these organisms share, such as water, light, etc.
3.F.1. Ecology: Investigate a variety of familiar places where plants and animals live to describe the place and the living things found there.3.F.1.a. Describe observations using drawings, oral or written text of the place and some of the living things found there.
3.F.1.b. Based on the observations collected at each place compare the plants and animals found there: Location; Activity; Movement; Features.
3.F.1.c. Describe ways that animals and plants found in each place interact with each other and with their environment.
MD.4.0.Chemistry: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the composition, structure, and interactions of matter in order to support the predictability of structure and energy transformations.
Chemistry: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the composition, structure, and interactions of matter in order to support the predictability of structure and energy transformations.
4.A.1. Structure of Matter: Compare the observable properties of a variety of objects and the materials they are made of using evidence from investigations.4.A.1.b. Based on data, describe the observable properties, such as size, shape, color, and texture of a variety of objects.
4.A.1.c. Identify and compare the properties of materials objects are made of and the properties of the objects.
MD.5.0.Physics: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the interactions of matter and energy and the energy transformations that occur
Physics: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the interactions of matter and energy and the energy transformations that occur
5.A.1. Mechanics: Compare the different ways objects move.5.A.1.a. Given many different objects, make them move and describe and compare how they move: Straight; Round and round; Back and forth; Zig-Zag.
5.A.2. Mechanics: Explain that there must be a cause for changes in the motion of an object5.A.2.a. Observe and describe the ways in which a variety of objects' motion can be changed: Sped up from a standstill; Slow down to a stop; Go faster; Go slower; No change; Change direction
5.A.2.b. Based on observations, identify what caused the changes in an object's motion: Push; Pull.
5.B.1. Thermodynamics: Describe that sunlight warms the land, air, and water using observations and age appropriate tools.5.B.1.a. Recognize and describe temperature changes of the land, air, and water before and after the sun warms them using senses and thermometers.
5.C.3. Electricity and Magnetism: Observe and gather information from the explorations to describe how magnets affect some objects.5.C.3.a. Observe and describe what happens when magnets are placed on or near objects made of different materials.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Magnets
5.C.3.b. Raise and seek answers to questions about what happened to the objects investigated and/or to the magnet.Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Magnets
MD.6.0.Environmental Science: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the interactions of environmental factors (living and non-living) and analyze their impact from a local to a global perspective.
Environmental Science: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the interactions of environmental factors (living and non-living) and analyze their impact from a local to a global perspective.
6.B.1. Environmental Issues: Identify aspects of the environment that are made by humans and those that are not made by humans.6.B.1.a. Identify features of the natural environment, such as parks, zoos, buildings, etc. that are made by humans.
6.B.1.b. Identify features of the natural environment that are not made by humans.