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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.
Flip Charts Laboratory Tools
Vocabulary Terms What is science?
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on lab skills/Science Inquiry
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide What is science?
 
1.A.1.g. Use whole numbers and simple, everyday fractions in ordering, counting, identifying, measuring, and describing things and experiences.
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Math in Science - 1st grade level
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Math in Science - 2nd grade level
 
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.
Flip Charts How heavy?
Flip Charts How Things Move
Flip Charts Ups & Downs
Vocabulary Terms All about animals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about animals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Describe and measure matter
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on lab skills/Science Inquiry
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry
 
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.
Flip Charts Laboratory Tools
Vocabulary Terms What is science?
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on lab skills/Science Inquiry
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Hands-on Lab Skills/Science Inquiry
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide What is science?
 

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.E.1. Interactions of Hydrosphere and Atmosphere: Describe observable changes in water on the surface of the Earth.
2.E.1.a. Cite examples of the sun's effect on what happens to water on the Earth's surface: Water disappears from puddles, wet surfaces after rain, any open container, etc.; Water can be a liquid or a solid and go back and forth from one form to another
Flip Charts Land, Water & Air
Flip Charts Science Grade 1
Vocabulary Terms Land, water, and air
Vocabulary Terms Rocks, Soil and water
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Land, water, and air
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Rocks, Soil and water
 
2.E.2. Interactions of Hydrosphere and Atmosphere: Describe that some events in nature have repeating patterns.
2.E.2.a. Observe and compare day-to-day weather changes.
Vocabulary Terms Weather
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Earth's weather and seasons
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Weather
 
2.E.2.b. Observe, record, and compare weather changes from month to month.
Flip Charts Science Grade 1
Flip Charts Science Grade 2
Flip Charts The Seasons
Flip Charts The Seasons
Flip Charts The Sun & Earth
Vocabulary Terms The seasons
Vocabulary Terms Weather
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Earth's weather and seasons
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The seasons
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Weather
 
2.E.2.c. Compare temperatures and type and amount of precipitation across the months.
Flip Charts Science Grade 1
Flip Charts Weather
Vocabulary Terms Weather
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Earth's weather and seasons
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Weather
 
2.E.2.e. Identify and describe patterns of weather conditions based on data collected.
Flip Charts Science Grade 1
Flip Charts Science Grade 2
Flip Charts The Seasons
Flip Charts The Seasons
Flip Charts The Sun & Earth
Vocabulary Terms The seasons
Vocabulary Terms Weather
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Earth's weather and seasons
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide The seasons
Quiz, 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: Compare and explain how external features of plants and animals help them survive in different environments.
3.A.1.a. Use the senses and magnifying instruments to examine a variety of plants and animals to describe external features and what they do.
Flip Charts All About Plants
Flip Charts Parts of a Seed
Flip Charts Parts of Plants
Flip Charts Plant Parts We Eat
Flip Charts Science Grade 2
Vocabulary Terms All about animals
Vocabulary Terms All about plants
Vocabulary Terms Animal groups
Vocabulary Terms Plants
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about animals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about plants
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Animal groups
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Plants
 
3.A.1.b. Compare similar features in some animals and plants and explain how each of these enables the organism to satisfy basic needs.
Flip Charts All About Animals
Flip Charts All About Plants
Flip Charts Parts of a Seed
Flip Charts Parts of Plants
Flip Charts Plant Parts We Eat
Flip Charts Science Grade 2
Flip Charts What Animals Need
Flip Charts What Plants Need
Vocabulary Terms All about animals
Vocabulary Terms All about plants
Vocabulary Terms Animal groups
Vocabulary Terms Animals
Vocabulary Terms Plants
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about animals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about plants
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Animal groups
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Animals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide How do plants and animals live together?
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Plants
 
3.A.1.d. Classify organisms according to one selected feature, such as body covering, and identify other similarities shared by organisms within each group formed.
Flip Charts All About Animals
Flip Charts All About Plants
Flip Charts Birds & Mammals
Flip Charts Science Grade 2
 
3.B.1. Cells: Describe evidence from investigations that living things are made of parts too small to be seen with the unaided eye.
3.B.1.a. Use magnifying instruments to observe parts of a variety of living things, such as leaves, seeds, insects, worms, etc. to describe (drawing or text) parts seen with the magnifier.
Flip Charts All About Plants
Flip Charts Bugs & More Bugs
Flip Charts How Seeds Travel
Flip Charts Parts of a Seed
Flip Charts Parts of Plants
Flip Charts Plant Parts We Eat
Flip Charts Science Grade 2
Vocabulary Terms All about animals
Vocabulary Terms All about plants
Vocabulary Terms Animal groups
Vocabulary Terms Life cycles
Vocabulary Terms Plants
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about animals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about plants
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Animal groups
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Life cycles
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Plants
 
3.B.1.b. Use information gathered from observations to compare the descriptions (drawings or text) of the different parts seen.
Flip Charts All About Plants
Flip Charts Parts of a Seed
Flip Charts Parts of Plants
Flip Charts Plant Parts We Eat
Flip Charts Science Grade 2
Vocabulary Terms All about animals
Vocabulary Terms All about plants
Vocabulary Terms Animal groups
Vocabulary Terms Plants
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about animals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about plants
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Animal groups
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Plants
 
3.B.1.c. Describe some of the ideas or questions that might result from examining organisms more closely.
Flip Charts All About Plants
Flip Charts Parts of a Seed
Flip Charts Parts of Plants
Flip Charts Plant Parts We Eat
Flip Charts Science Grade 2
Vocabulary Terms All about animals
Vocabulary Terms All about plants
Vocabulary Terms Animal groups
Vocabulary Terms Plants
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about animals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about plants
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Animal groups
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Plants
 
3.B.2. Cells: Provide evidence that all organisms are made of parts that help them carry out the basic functions of life.
3.B.2.a. Gather information and direct evidence that humans and other animals have different body parts used to seek, find, and take in food.
Flip Charts Five Senses
Flip Charts My Senses
Flip Charts Science Grade 1
Vocabulary Terms My senses
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide My senses
 
3.B.2.b. Investigate and identify parts of the body that alert humans and other animals to danger and help them to fight, hide or get out of danger.
Flip Charts Five Senses
Flip Charts My Senses
Flip Charts Science Grade 1
Vocabulary Terms My senses
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide My senses
 
3.B.2.c. Describe some parts of plants and describe what they do for the plant.
Flip Charts All About Plants
Flip Charts How Seeds Travel
Flip Charts Parts of a Seed
Flip Charts Parts of Plants
Flip Charts Plant Parts We Eat
Flip Charts Science Grade 2
Vocabulary Terms All about plants
Vocabulary Terms Plants
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about plants
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Plants
 
3.E.1. Flow of Matter and Energy: Describe some of the ways in which animals depend on plants and on each other.
3.E.1.a. Examine organisms in a wide variety of environments to gather information on how animals satisfy their need for food: Some animals eat only plants; Some animals eat only other animals; Some animals eat both plants and other animals.
Flip Charts Food Chains
Flip Charts Science Grade 1
Vocabulary Terms Animals
Vocabulary Terms Mammals and birds
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Animals
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Mammals and birds
 

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.
Flip Charts Taking Up Space
Vocabulary Terms Comparing matter
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Comparing matter
 

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.C.3. Electricity and Magnetism: Describe the effect magnets have on a variety of objects.
5.C.3.a. Classify materials based on their behavior in the presence of a magnet.
Flip Charts Sound All Around
Vocabulary Terms All about sound and light
Vocabulary Terms Did you Know... 1st Grade
Vocabulary Terms Light and sound
Vocabulary Terms Magnets
Vocabulary Terms Magnets
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about sound and light
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Did you Know... 1st Grade
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Light and sound
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Magnets
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Magnets
 
5.C.3.b. Describe how the magnet affects the behavior of objects within each group.
Flip Charts Sound All Around
Vocabulary Terms All about sound and light
Vocabulary Terms Did you Know... 1st Grade
Vocabulary Terms Light and sound
Vocabulary Terms Magnets
Vocabulary Terms Magnets
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide All about sound and light
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Did you Know... 1st Grade
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Light and sound
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Magnets
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: Recognize that caring about the environment is an important human activity.
6.B.1.a. Recognize and describe that individual and group actions, such as recycling, help the environment.
Vocabulary Terms Taking Care of Earth
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Taking Care of Earth
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Using and saving natural resources
 
6.B.1.b. Recognize and describe that individual and group actions, such as littering, harm the environment.
Vocabulary Terms Taking Care of Earth
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Taking Care of Earth
Quiz, Flash Cards, Worksheet, Game & Study Guide Using and saving natural resources