Toddler Science Essential Learning Goals
Toddler Science Essential Learning Goals Physical Science Forces and Motion: Concepts: 1. Demonstrates an understanding of basic cause and effect. Begins to understand the basics of cause and effect.
Structures and Properties of Matter: Concepts: 1. Examines, describes, and measures the observable features of objects. 2. Communicates that the physical properties of objects and materials can change, (e.g., when solid ice becomes a liquid). 3. Explores and describes ways that objects can be moved in space, (e. g., pushing, pulling, rising, or sinking).
Life Science Structure and Function: 1. Names familiar objects, animals, body parts (e.g., arm, hand, and arm). 2. Begins to identify traits of living things (e.g., the sound a duck makes). 3. Demonstrates an understanding that people and animals need food and water to live. 4. Demonstrates an understanding that people and animals can live in different habitats.
Earth and Space Science Weather and Climate: Concepts: 1. Describes weather. 2. Demonstrates understanding that there are different kinds of weather and that weather changes. 3. Communicates awareness that the environment changes, (e.g., season to season, sometimes slowly and sometimes suddenly). 4. Shows awareness that different objects can be seen in the sky.
Engineering Design Concepts: 1. Finding out how things are constructed and work. 2. Thinking about what can make things work differently/better. 3. Design, build, and test solutions through their play (e.g., as they construct sand castles and build cities out of blocks). 4. Demonstrate an understanding that tools help people do things better or more easily, or do some things that could otherwise not be done at all.
Science and Engineering Practices 1. 2. 3. 4.
Observes and explores things in the environment. Manipulates objects to understand their properties. Connects new observations to what he or she already knows. Begins to make comparisons and classifies.
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Structures and Properties of Matter: Concepts: 1. Examines, describes, and measures the observable features of objects. 2. Communicates that the physical properties of objects and materials can change, (e.g., when solid ice becomes a liquid). 3. Explores and describes ways that objects can be moved in space, (e. g., pushing, pulling, rising, or sinking).
Life Science Structure and Function: 1. Names familiar objects, animals, body parts (e.g., arm, hand, and arm). 2. Begins to identify traits of living things (e.g., the sound a duck makes). 3. Demonstrates an understanding that people and animals need food and water to live. 4. Demonstrates an understanding that people and animals can live in different habitats.
Earth and Space Science Weather and Climate: Concepts: 1. Describes weather. 2. Demonstrates understanding that there are different kinds of weather and that weather changes. 3. Communicates awareness that the environment changes, (e.g., season to season, sometimes slowly and sometimes suddenly). 4. Shows awareness that different objects can be seen in the sky.
Engineering Design Concepts: 1. Finding out how things are constructed and work. 2. Thinking about what can make things work differently/better. 3. Design, build, and test solutions through their play (e.g., as they construct sand castles and build cities out of blocks). 4. Demonstrate an understanding that tools help people do things better or more easily, or do some things that could otherwise not be done at all.
Science and Engineering Practices 1. 2. 3. 4.
Observes and explores things in the environment. Manipulates objects to understand their properties. Connects new observations to what he or she already knows. Begins to make comparisons and classifies.
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