Standards

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)

This lesson is building toward:

PERFORMANCE EXPECTATION (PE)

K-PS2-2

Analyze data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull.* [Clarification Statement: Examples of problems requiring a solution could include having a marble or other object move a certain distance, follow a particular path, and knock down other objects. Examples of solutions could include tools such as a ramp to increase the speed of the object and a structure that would cause an object such as a marble or ball to turn.] [Assessment Boundary: Assessment does not include friction as a mechanism for change in speed.]

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

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING PRACTICES (SEP)

Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions

Use tools and/or materials to design and build a device that solves a specific problem or a solution to a specific problem.
Generate and/or compare multiple solutions to a problem.

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

Pushes and pulls can have different strengths and directions.

ETS1.A: Defining and Delimiting an Engineering Problem

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

ETS1.B: Developing Possible Solution

Designs can be conveyed through sketches, drawings, or physical models. These representations are useful in communicating ideas for a problem’s solutions to other people.

CROSSCUTTING CONCEPTS (CCC)

Structure and Function

The shape and stability of structures of natural and designed objects are related to their function(s).

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: Interacting with written English (print and multimedia)

EMERGING

EXPANDING

BRIDGING

P1.K.2 Collaborate with the teacher and peers on joint composing projects of short informational and literary texts that include minimal writing (labeling with a few words), using technology where appropriate for publishing, graphics, etc.

P1.K.2 Collaborate with the teacher and peers on joint composing projects of informational and literary texts that include some writing (e.g., short sentences), using technology where appropriate for publishing, graphics, etc.

P1.K.2 Collaborate with the teacher and peers on joint composing projects of informational and literary texts that include a greater amount of writing (e.g., a very short story), using technology where appropriate for publishing, graphics, etc.

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.5: Listening actively and asking or answering questions about what was heard
P1.K.12: Selecting and applying varied and precise vocabulary and other language resources