Standards

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

This lesson is building toward:

PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION (PE)

K-PS2-1

Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object. [Clarification Statement: Examples of pushes or pulls could include a string attached to an object being pulled, a person pushing an object, a person stopping a rolling ball, and two objects colliding and pushing on each other.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment is limited to different relative strengths or different directions, but not both at the same time. Assessment does not include non-contact pushes or pulls such as those produced by magnets.]

NGSS Lead States. 2013. Next Generation Science Standards: For States, By States. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PRACTICES (SEP)

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

Record information (observations, thoughts, and ideas).
Use and share pictures, drawings, and/or writings of observations.

Planning and Carrying Out Investigations

With guidance, plan and conduct an investigation in collaboration with peers.
Make observations (firsthand or from media) and/or measurements to collect data that can be used to make comparisons.

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

Make observations (firsthand or from media) to construct an evidence-based account for natural phenomena.

Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information

Communicate information or design ideas and/or solutions with others in oral and/or written forms using models, drawings, writing, or numbers that provide detail about scientific ideas, practices, and or/design ideas.
Obtain information using various texts, text features (e.g., heading, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) and other media that will be useful in answering a scientific question and/or supporting a scientific claim.

DISCIPLINARY CORE IDEAS (DCI)

PS2.A: Forces and Motion

Pushing or pulling on an object can change the speed or direction of its motion and can start or stop it.

ETS1.A: Defining and Delimiting an Engineering Problem

Asking questions, making observations, and gathering information are helpful in thinking about problems.

CROSSCUTTING CONCEPTS (CCC)

Cause and Effect

Events have causes that generate observable patterns.

Patterns

Patterns in the natural and human designed world can be observed, used to describe phenomena, and used as evidence.

“Disciplinary Core Ideas, Science and Engineering Practices, and Crosscutting Concepts” are reproduced verbatim from A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/13165. National Research Council; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Board on Science Education; Committee on a Conceptual Framework for New K-12 Science Education Standards. National Academies Press, Washington, DC. This material may be reproduced for noncommercial purposes and used by other parties with this attribution. If the original material is altered in any way, the attribution must state that the material is adapted from the original. All other rights reserved.

Common Core State Standards (CCSS)

CCSS ELA READING

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.R1.K.1
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.

CCSS ELA SPEAKING & LISTENING

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.3
Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood.

California English Language Development (ELD) Standards

CA ELD

Part I.K.5: Listening actively and asking questions about what was heard

EMERGING

EXPANDING

BRIDGING

P1.K.5 Demonstrate active listening to read-alouds and oral presentations by asking and answering yes-no and whquestions with oral sentence frames and substantial prompting and support.

P1.K.5 Demonstrate active listening to read-alouds and oral presentations by asking and answering questions with oral sentence frames and occasional prompting and support.

P1.K.5 Demonstrate active listening to read-alouds and oral presentations by asking and answering detailed questions with minimal prompting and light support.

In addition to the standard above, you may find that you touch on the following standards in this lesson as well:

P1.K.1: Exchanging information and ideas via oral communication and conversations
P1.K.2: Interacting with written English (print and multimedia)
P1.K.12: Selecting and applying varied and precise vocabulary and other language resources