Georgia Performance Standards, Grade One

Co-Requisite - Characteristics of Science

Habits of Mind

S1CS1. Students will be aware of the importance of curiosity, honesty, openness, and skepticism in science and will exhibit these traits in their own efforts to understand how the world works.

a. Raise questions about the world around them and be willing to seek answers to some of the questions by making careful observations and measurements and trying to figure things out.

Video: What is Science?
Video: Nature Watching
Video: A Walk In The Park
Video: Measuring Feet
Experiment: Feeling A Point Or Two
Video: Reaction Time
Experiment: How Much Rain?
Video: Floating Cups
Video: Bottle Tones, Part One
Video: Bottle Tones, Part Two
Video: Strange Flame, Part One
Video: Strange Flame, Part Two
Video: Mystery Of The Glassy Tube
Video: Mystery Of The Golden Needles

S1CS2. Students will have the computation and estimation skills necessary for analyzing data and following scientific explanations.

a. Use whole numbers in ordering, counting, identifying, measuring, and describing things and experiences.

Video: Reaction Time
Experiment: How Much Rain?
Video: Planets And Pennies
Experiment: Measuring Lightning
Experiment: Fish In A Bucket
Experiment: More Fish In A Bucket
Experiment: Nine Folds

b. Readily give the sums and differences of single-digit numbers in ordinary, practical contexts and judge the reasonableness of the answer.

Video: Reaction Time
Experiment: How Much Rain?
Experiment: Measuring Lightning

c. Give rough estimates of numerical answers to problems before doing them formally.

Video: Measuring Feet

d. Make quantitative estimates of familiar lengths, weights, and time intervals, and check them by measuring.

S1CS3. Students will use tools and instruments for observing, measuring, and manipulating objects in scientific activities.

a. Use ordinary hand tools and instruments to construct, measure, and look at objects.
Video: Laser Projection Microscope
Video: Light As Air

b. Make something that can actually be used to perform a task, using paper, cardboard, wood, plastic, metal, or existing objects.

Video: Laser Projection Microscope
Experiment: Pinecone Weather
Experiment: Scale Model Of A Solar System
Experiment: Paper Petals
Experiment: The Screamer
Experiment: Comb Kazoo
Experiment: Boomerangs
Experiment: Homemade Barometer

c. Identify and practice accepted safety procedures in manipulating science materials and equipment.

Video: Dry Ice
Video: Strange Flame, Part One
Video: Heating A Balloon
Video: Laser Projection Microscope

S1CS4. Students will use the ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring scientific and technological matters.

a. Use a model—such as a toy or a picture—to describe a feature of the primary thing.
Video: Global Science

b. Describe changes in the size, weight, color, or movement of things, and note which of their other qualities remain the same during a specific change.

Experiment: Bean Power
Experiment: Creeping Carpets
Experiment: Verdigris
Experiment: Broccoli Science
Experiment: Yellowing Paper
Experiment: Bad Chocolate
Experiment: Cabbage Indicator

c. Compare very different sizes, weights, ages (baby/adult), and speeds (fast/slow) of both human made and natural things.
Video: Density Column

S1CS5. Students will communicate scientific ideas and activities clearly.

a. Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion.">
Video: Identifying Minerals
Experiment: Square In The Grass
Experiment: Bad Chocolate
Experiment: Cold Tomatoes, Part One
Experiment: Cold Tomatoes, Part Two
Experiment: Bean Power
Experiment: Rolling Bottles

b. Draw pictures (grade level appropriate) that correctly portray features of the thing being described.

c. Use simple pictographs and bar graphs to communicate data.

The Nature of Science

S1CS6. Students will be familiar with the character of scientific knowledge and how it is achieved.
Students will recognize that:
a. When a science investigation is done the way it was done before, we expect to get a similar result.
Video: What is Science?

b. Science involves collecting data and testing hypotheses

Video: What is Science?
Experiment: Hypothesis
Video: Science Fair Panic, Part One
Video: Science Fair Panic, Part Two
Video: Science Fair Panic, Part Three
Video: Science Fair Panic, Part Four
Video: Floating Cups

c. Scientists often repeat experiments multiple times, and subject their ideas to criticism by other scientists who may disagree with them and do further tests.

Video: What is Science?
Video: Floating Cups
Experiment: Hypothesis
Video: Science Fair Panic, Part One
Video: Science Fair Panic, Part Two
Video: Science Fair Panic, Part Three
Video: Science Fair Panic, Part Four

d. All different kinds of people can be and are scientists.

S1CS7. Students will understand important features of the process of scientific inquiry.
Students will apply the following to inquiry learning practices:
a. Scientists use a common language with precise definitions of terms to make it easier to communicate their observations to each other.

Experiment: Hearing Directions

c. Tools such as thermometers, rulers and balances often give more information about things than can be obtained by just observing things without help.

Video: Reaction Time
Experiment: How Much Rain?
Experiment: A Cool Change
Experiment: Cooling Fans

d. Much can be learned about plants and animals by observing them closely, but care must be taken to know the needs of living things and how to provide for them. Advantage can be taken of classroom pets.

Video: Hunting With An Umbrella
Video; A Walk In the Park
Video: Nature Watching
Experiment: Insect Hunting

Earth Science

S1E1. Students will observe, measure, and communicate weather data to see patterns in weather and climate.

a. Identify different types of weather and the characteristics of each type.
Experiment: Hurricane Winds
Experiment: Thunder Rumbles
Experiment: Measuring Lightning
Video: Measuring Lightning
Video: Continuous Change
Video: Fast And Slow Change

b. Investigate weather by observing, measuring with simple weather instruments (thermometer, wind vane, rain gauge), and recording weather data (temperature, precipitation, sky conditions, and weather events) in a periodic journal or on a calendar seasonally.

Video: Measuring Lightning
Experiment: Measuring Lightning
Experiment: Thunder Rumbles
Experiment: How Much Rain?
Experiment: Pinecone Weather

c. Correlate weather data (temperature, precipitation, sky conditions, and weather events) to seasonal changes.

S1E2. Students will observe and record changes in water as it relates to weather.

a. Recognize changes in water when it freezes (ice) and when it melts (water).

Experiment: Wonders Of Ice
Experiment: Turning Ice
Video: Wonderful Water

b. Identify forms of precipitation such as rain, snow, sleet, and hailstones as either solid (ice) or liquid (water).

c. Determine that the weight of water before freezing, after freezing, and after melting stays the same
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d. Determine that water in an open container disappears into the air over time, but water in a closed container does not.

Physical Science

S1P1. Students will investigate light and sound.

a. Recognize sources of light.

b. Explain how shadows are made.

c. Investigate how vibrations produce sound.

Video: Grass Whistle
Video: Spoon Bells
Video: Bullroarer
Experiment: Feeling Sound
Experiment: The Screamer
Experiment: Comb Kazoo
Experiment: Good Vibrations
Video: Noisy String
Experiment: Noisy String

d. Differentiate between various sounds in terms of (pitch) high or low and (volume) loud or soft.

Video: Bullroarer
Video: Bottle Tones, Part One
Video: Bottle Tones, Part Two
Video: Singing Glass

e. Identify emergency sounds and sounds that help us stay safe.

S1P2. Students will demonstrate effects of magnets on other magnets and other objects.

a. Demonstrate how magnets attract and repel.

Video: Iron Cereal
Video: The Compass And Magnetic Fields
Video: How To Make A Compass
Experiment: Attractive Cereal
Experiment: Which Magnet, Part One
Experiment: Which Magnet, Part Two

b. Identify common objects that are attracted to a magnet.

Video: Iron Cereal
Experiment: Attractive Cereal
Video: The Compass And Magnetic Fields

c. Identify objects and materials (air, water, wood, paper, your hand, etc.) that do not block magnetic force.

Life Science

S1L1. Students will investigate the characteristics and basic needs of plants and animals.

a. Identify the basic needs of a plant.

1. Air

Video: Taking A Marshmallow Apart
Experiment: Thoughts On Trees
Video: Heartless Plants

2. Water

Video: Taking A Marshmallow Apart
Experiment: Thoughts On Trees
Video: Heartless Plants

3. Light

Video: Taking A Marshmallow Apart
Experiment: Thoughts On Trees
Video: Heartless Plants

4. Nutrients

Video: Taking A Marshmallow Apart
Experiment: Thoughts On Trees
Video: Heartless Plants

b. Identify the basic needs of an animal.

1. Air

2. Water

Video: A Walk In the Park

3. Food

Video: A Walk In The Park

4. Shelter

c. Identify the parts of a plant—root, stem, leaf, and flower.

Experiment: Thoughts On Trees
Experiment: Getting To The Root
Video: A Walk In The Park

d. Compare and describe various animals—appearance, motion, growth, basic needs.

Video: A Walk In The Park