Science Grade 1

Chester Township Public Schools
Science Curriculum

Science - Grade 1

Science

The New Jersey Curriculum Content Standards for Science reflect "the belief that all students can and must learn enough science to assume their role as concerned citizens equipped with necessary information and decision-making skills."

The following is a list of the New Jersey Science Standards:

5.1        "All students will learn to identify systems of interacting components and understand how their interactions combine to produce the overall behavior of the system."

5.2        "All students will develop problem-solving, decision-making and inquiry skills, reflected by formulating usable questions and hypotheses, planning experiments, conducting systematic observations, interpreting and analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and communicating results."

5.3        "All students will develop an understanding of how people of various cultures have contributed to the advancement of science and technology."

5.4        "All students will develop an understanding of technology as an application of scientific principles."

5.5        "All students will integrate mathematics as a tool for problem-solving in science, and as a means of expressing and/or modeling scientific theories."

5.6        "All students will gain an understanding of the structure, characteristics, and basic needs of organisms."

5.7        "All students will investigate the diversity of life."

5.8        "All students will gain an understanding of the structure and behavior of matter."

5.9        "All students will gain an understanding of natural laws as they apply to motion, forces, and energy transformations."

5.10    "All students will gain an understanding of the structure, dynamics, and geophysical systems of the earth."

5.11    "All students will gain an understanding of the origin, evolution, and structure of the universe."

5.12    "All students will develop an understanding of the environment as a system of interdependent components affected by human activity and natural phenomena."

The Science performance standards are built upon the National Research Council's "National Science Education Standards" (1996) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Project 2061 "Benchmarks for Science Literacy" (1993).

In Science, the goal is for all students to achieve scientific literacy. The objectives and competencies included in this curriculum deal with scientific concepts and the application of those concepts within the field of science and in other fields of study.

The National Science Education Standards outline "what students should know, understand, and be able to do in the natural sciences over the course of K-12 education.

Grade 1

In the First Grade Science course, students continue to explore the world of science: physical, life, earth and space. In addition, students engage in activities which require them to develop research and inquiry skills. At this age level, students begin to identify the existence of science in their world.

Research and Inquiry

The Research and Inquiry unit includes the history and development of science and scientists, investigation techniques, the use of instruments in science, communication of scientific concepts, and real world issues that surround science, technology, and mathematics.

Measurement: Standard/Investigate
The learner will be able to investigate standard units of measurements to test and measure matter. (NJCCCS 5.3).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Measurement	Application	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Life Science

The Life Science unit includes organism characteristics, plants and animals, human health and safety, life cycles, and the environment.

Plants: Parts
The learner will be able to identify the parts of a plant confirming that a plant forms a system whose parts interact to maintain the functions that contribute to its growth, development and reproduction.. (NJCCCS 5.1, 5.2, 5.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Agriculture		Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Plants: Seed Growth
The learner will be able to explain and give examples of how a seed grows into a plant and describe how bees and other animals help explain make seeds. (NJCCCS 5.1, 5.5).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Agriculture		Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Plants: Interact
The learner will be able to explain and give examples of how plants and animals interact in the environment confirming the concept that plant and animal interdependence within the system is introduced in a basic way by looking at a simple food chain. (NJCCCS 5.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Agriculture	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Plants: Food Chain
The learner will be able to explain and give an example of a simple food chain. (NJCCCS 5.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Agriculture		Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Plants: Interaction
The learner will be able to describe and give examples of ways people interact with and use plants and animals. (NJCCCS 5.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Agriculture	Knowledge	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Animal: Butterfly
The learner will be able to explain how a butterfly changes as it develops. developing the concept of metamorphosis of a butterfly from larva to adult. (NJCCCS 5.2).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Agriculture	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Animal: Insects and Jointed-legged
The learner will be able to describe and give examples of the characteristics of insects and some other jointed-legged animals. (NJCCCS 5.7).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Agriculture	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Animals: Amphibans
The learner will be able to give examples of some of the characteristics of an amphibian and compare the body structure of a fish and a frog. (NJCCCS 5.3, 5.5).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Agriculture	Knowledge	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Amphibians: Adaptation to Environment
The learner will be able to describe how characteristics help amphibians to live in their environment and describe how amphibians change as they grow and develop. (NJCCCS 5.5).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Agriculture	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Plants: Survival/Describe
The learner will be able to describe how plants survive in their environment and explain and give examples of how plants use stems, leaves, and flowers to meet their needs in the environment. (NJCCCS 5.1).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Plants: Survival	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Earth and Space Science

The Earth and Space Science unit includes properties of the Earth, moon, sun, solar system, and universe.

Earth Science: Rocks and Minerals
The learner will be able to use observable properties to compare minerals and rocks so as to identify rocks and compare based on properties of size, shape and color and classify rocks by their properties. (NJCCCS 5.2, 5.10).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Air	Application	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Rocks and Minerals: Origin and Use
The learner will be able to explain where rocks and minerals are found and give examples of how people use rocks. (NJCCCS 5.2, 5.10).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Air	Application	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Rocks: Weathering
The learner will be able to give examples of how weathering changes rocks and explain how rocks can be changed to sand. (NJCCCS 5.8).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Air	Comprehension	Introduce	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Earth and Sky: Sun, Moon ,Stars
The learner will be able to model the model between size and distance and compare it to the relative sizes of the Earth, sun and other stars confirming that all the planets and stars in our solar system are related to one another in some way. (NJCCCS 5.9).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Air	Application	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Earth and Stars: Sun Light
The learner will be able to explain why light and heat from the sun are so important to us. (NJCCCS 5.9).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Air	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Earth and Sky: Sun Movement
The learner will be able to explain how shadows indicate the apparent movement of the sun. (NJCCCS 5.9).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Air	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Earth and Sky: Inference
The learner will be able to infer that the apparent movement of the sun is caused by the Earth's rotation. (NJCCCS 5.9).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Air	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Earth and Shy: Day and Night
The learner will be able to model what causes day and night. (NJCCCS 5.9).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Air	Application	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Physical Science

The Physical Science unit includes properties of objects, motion of objects, matter, energy, light, heat, electricity, magnetism, and force.

Forces: Matter and Magnets
The learner will be able to investigate the forces that move objects and that a magnet is any object that can exert a force on another magnet. NJCCCS 5.3).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Forces: Motion	Application	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

States of Matter: Observe
The learner will be able to observe the different states of matter and describe a solid as matter that has a definite size and shape. (NJCCCS 5.2, 5.3).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Matter: States of Matter	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Describe Properties
The learner will be able to describe several properties of matter that can be measured by measuring the length an width of objects using a standard unit. (NJCCCS 5.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Acids	Application	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Properties/Inference
The learner will be able to infer that mass is a property of matter that can be measured by testing ways to measure matter i.e. a ruler, blocks and eraser and using a balance to measure mass. (NJCCCS 5.3).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Acids	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Properties /Inference
The learner will be able to infer that all matter has properties that can be observed and classified. (NJCCCS 5.3, 5.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Acids	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Matter: Liquid Size and Shape
The learner will be able to describe a liquid as matter that has a definite size, but not a definite shape and observe matter change from solid to liquid to a gas. (NJCCCS 5.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Acids	Comprehension	Introduce	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Matter: Gas
The learner will be able to identify a gas as matter that has no definite size or shape. (NJCCCS 5.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Acids	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Matter: Inference
The learner will be able to infer that matter can change from one state to another. (NJCCCS 5.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Acids	Knowledge	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Magnets; Inference
The learner will be able to infer that only certain types of matter are attracted to a magnet. (NJCCCS 5.3).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Acids		Introduce	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Magnets: Inference
The learner will be able to infer that magnets can attract through different materials and explain how this can be tested. (NJCCCS 5.3).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Acids	Comprehension	Introduce	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Magnets: Common Uses
The learner will be able to give examples of several common uses for magnets. (NJCCCS 5.7).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Acids	Knowledge	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Magnets: Poles
The learner will be able to explain how the poles of two magnets interact with each other.confirming that a magnet contains two poles that react in different ways. (NJCCCS 5.9).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Acids	Knowledge	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Magnets: Inference
The learner will be able to infer that a magnet can be used as a compass to determine direction. (NJCCCS 5.2, 5.8, and 5.9).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Acids	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Magnets: Experimentation
The learner will be able to experiment to see what kinds of objects can be magnetize and to determine the strengths of magnets confirming that metals containing iron can interact with magnets and take on properties of a magnet. (NJCCCS 5.2, 5.5, 5.9).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Acids	Application	Introduce	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.

Objects: Properties/Observe
The learner will be able to identify ways we use our senses to make observations and observe and classify objects by identifying various properties. (NJCCCS 5.5, 5.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Objects: Properties	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, National Science Education Standards, The Higher Order Learning (1999) Curriculum, Chester Science Currriculum Committee and First Grade Teachers.