1st Grade Science Benchmark Targets by Strand
By year's end, all students will:
| Strand | # | Benchmark Target |
Link to TEKS | Curriculum Connection |
| Nature of Science | 1. | Use safe practices during classroom and field and home investigations. | All units | |
| 2. | Demonstrate abilities necessary to conduct scientific inquiry by asking questions, planning investigations, gathering information and communicating results with teacher direction. | 1.1 | All units | |
| Magic School bus Science | ||||
| 3. | Explain problems and solutions using his/her own words. | 1.3 | All units | |
| Science News Network | ||||
| 4. | Describe record, compare and measure organisms and objects by using scientific tools including hand lens, clocks, computers, thermometer, and balances with teacher direction. | 1.4, 1.7 | All units | |
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| 5. | Predict and create patterns using those already seen in charts, graphs and numbers. | 1.5 | All units | |
| Creating patterns | ||||
| 6. | Observe, measure, and record changes in size, mass, color, position, quantity, sound, and movement. | 1.7 | Most Units | |
| Physical Change lesson 3rd grade level, but good information for working with changes | ||||
| Organization of Living Systems | 7. | Observe and record changes in the life cycle of organisms such as butterflies, chicks, and ladybugs. | 1.7 | Plants and Animals, Living Organisms and Non-Living Things |
| Butterfly Life Cycle art activity |
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| 8. | Group and compare living organisms and non-living objects. | 1.8 | Living Organisms and Non-living Things |
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| Interdependence of Organisms and the Environment |
9. | Identify and compare characteristics of living organisms that enable their basic needs to be met. | 1.9 | Basic Needs of Organisms |
| 10. | Compare and give examples of how organisms depend on each other. | 1.9 | Basic Needs of Organisms | |
| Structures and Properties of Matter |
11. | Identify and sort organisms, objects and events based on properties and patterns. | 1.5 | Plants and Animals |
| Butterfly matching game a "Memory" type game | ||||
| 12. | Identify and describe the purpose of objects and their parts such as a camera with film and a car with fuel. | 1.6 | Living Organisms and Non-Living Things |
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| How Stuff Works | ||||
| 13. | Identify and test ways that change occurs such as when heat melts ice. | 1.7 | Weather and Temperature | |
| Earth Science Targets |
14. | Observe and record changes in weather from day to day and over seasons. | 1.7 | Weather and Temperature |
| Signs of Spring | ||||
| 15. | Identify, describe, and contrast rocks and soil and their uses. | 1.10 | Rocks, Soil and Water | |
| Online Rock Slideshow | ||||
| 16. | Identify and describe a variety of natural sources of water and how these sources are used and recycled. | 1.10 | Rocks, Soil and Water | |
| Enchanted Learning Water Cycle | ||||
| Spinning tops | ||||
| TEKS SEARCH | Marco Polo Search by TEXAS TEKS Alignment | |||
| Thematic | Teachers' Corner monthly themes | |||
| Journey North | Inquiry based learning, integrates science, social studies, math | |||
| good nutrition | ||||
*"Including" references non-negotiable components; "such as" references examples.