What does a student learn in StateConnecticut,GradeGrade 1,SubjectScience?

Students come up with questions about the world around them that can actually be tested, and figure out what problem needs solving before trying to build or fix something.

Students draw pictures or build simple models to show how something works, like weather patterns or a bridge they designed. The model helps them explain their thinking to others.

Students plan a simple test, collect information from it, and use what they find to check whether their idea holds up.

Students look at charts, pictures, or counts collected during an investigation and explain what the numbers or patterns show. The goal is to say what the data means, not just read it back.

Students use counting, measuring, and simple patterns to help explain what they observe in science. A ruler, a tally chart, or a number line can all be tools for backing up a science idea.

Students look at what they observed or tested, then use that evidence to explain why something happened or to come up with a fix for a problem.

Students look at two different explanations or solutions and use what they observed to argue which one makes more sense. They practice backing up their opinion with real evidence, not just a guess.

Students read, look at, or listen to science information, then share what they found with others. This might mean reading a book about animals, deciding if it makes sense, and explaining it to the class.

Students sort and describe everyday materials by how they look, feel, and behave. This builds toward understanding why some things bend, break, dissolve, or stick together.

Students push, pull, and bump objects to see how things speed up, slow down, or change direction. They learn why some things stay put and others keep moving.

Students explore how energy shows up in everyday life as light, heat, sound, or motion, and how it moves from one place or object to another. Nothing in these investigations requires math beyond counting.

Students explore how waves move energy from place to place, like sound traveling across a room or light bouncing off a mirror. They also look at how waves carry information, the way a phone call or radio signal does.

Students look at plants and animals up close to learn what body parts they have and how those parts help the organism survive.

Students learn how living things in a habitat depend on each other for food and survival. They look at how energy moves from plants to animals and how matter, like water and nutrients, gets used and reused.

Students look at how parent animals or plants pass traits like fur color or leaf shape to their offspring, and notice that family members can still look different from one another.

Students look at different plants and animals to see what traits they share and how they differ. This builds toward understanding why living things change over generations.

Students learn where Earth sits in space and how it moves around the sun. They also explore how our planet and solar system formed and changed over time.

Students look at how land, water, air, and living things work together on Earth. They explore how rain fills rivers, how soil supports plants, and how air moves across both.

Students learn how people change the land, water, and air around them, and how storms, floods, and earthquakes affect the places people live.

Students look at a real problem, sketch or build a fix for it, test whether it works, and adjust the design until it works better.

Students explore how inventions change everyday life and how the needs of people shape what gets built. A new tool can change how a community works, and community needs can push inventors to make something new.