This unit will be integrated directly through language arts and technology to meet CT Health and Science Standards. The Connecticut Science Standards for Kindergarten state objects have properties that can be observed and used to describe similarities and differences. The Core Science Curriculum Framework states that some properties can be observed with the senses, and others can be discovered by using simple tools or tests.
The grade level expectations are:
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Students should be able to match each of the five senses with its associated body part and the kind of information it perceives.
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Students should be able to make scientific observations using the five senses, and distinguish between an object's observable properties and its name or its uses.
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Students should be able to classify organisms or objects by one and two observable properties and explain the rule used for sorting (e.g., size, color, shape, texture or flexibility).
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Students should be able to use simple tools and nonstandard units to estimate or predict properties such as size, heaviness, magnetic attraction and float/sink.
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Students should be able to describe properties of materials such as wood, plastic, metal, cloth or paper and sort objects by the material from which they are made.
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Students should be able to count, order and sort objects by their observable properties.
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(Connecticut State Department of Education March 2009).
Additionally, this unit is aligned with New Haven Pubic School's student goals which list the following standards and indicators:
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K.1 Objects have properties that can be observed and used to describe similarities and differences.
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A.2 Sort objects made of materials such as wood, paper and metal into groups based on properties such as flexibility, attraction to magnets, and whether they float or sink in water.
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