Pennsylvania
Skills available for Pennsylvania first-grade science standards
Standards are in black and IXL science skills are in dark green. Hold your mouse over the name of a skill to view a sample question. Click on the name of a skill to practice that skill.
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- Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards Science, Technology & Engineering, Environmental Literacy and Sustainability (STEELS) Standards
- Pennsylvania Academic Standards - Science and Technology and Engineering Pennsylvania Academic Standards - Science and Technology and Engineering
Actions
3.1 Life Science
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From Molecules to Organisms: Structures and Processes
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3.1.1.A Use materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
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3.1.1.B Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.
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Heredity: Inheritance and Variation of Traits
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3.1.1.C Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
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3.2 Physical Science
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Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
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3.2.1.A Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
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3.2.1.B Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects can be seen only when illuminated.
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3.2.1.C Plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.
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3.2.1.D Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.
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3.3 Earth and Space Science
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Earth's Place in the Universe
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3.3.1.A Use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.
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3.3.1.B Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.
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3.4 Environmental Literacy and Sustainability
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Agriculture and Environmental Systems and Resources
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3.4.K-2.A Categorize ways people harvest, re-distribute, and use natural resources.
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3.4.K-2.B Examine how people from different cultures and communities, including one's own, interact and express their beliefs about nature.
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Environmental Literacy Skills
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3.4.K-2.C Explain ways that places differ in their physical characteristics, their meaning, and their value and/or importance.
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3.4.K-2.D Plan and carry out an investigation to address an issue in their local environment and community.
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3.5 Technology and Engineering
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Applying, Maintaining, and Assessing Technological Products and Systems
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3.5.K-2.A Identify and use everyday symbols.
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3.5.K-2.B Describe qualities of everyday products.
- Classify objects by two-dimensional shape (1-A.1)
- Sort objects by two-dimensional shape (1-A.2)
- Classify objects by three-dimensional shape (1-A.3)
- Sort objects by three-dimensional shape (1-A.4)
- Classify objects by color (1-A.5)
- Sort objects by color (1-A.6)
- Classify objects by texture (1-B.1)
- Sort objects by texture (1-B.2)
- Classify objects by material (1-B.3)
- Sort objects by material (1-B.4)
- Classify objects by shape, color, material, and texture (1-B.5)
- Describe objects (1-B.6)
- Long and short (1-C.1)
- Light and heavy (1-C.2)
- Hot and cold (1-C.3)
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3.5.K-2.N Analyze how things work.
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Impacts of Technology
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3.5.K-2.C Explain ways that technology helps with everyday tasks.
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3.5.K-2.D Select ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle resources in daily life.
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3.5.K-2.E Illustrate helpful and harmful effects of technology.
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3.5.K-2.I Compare simple technologies to evaluate their impacts.
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3.5.K-2.J Design new technologies that could improve their daily lives.
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Influence of Society on Technological Development
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3.5.K-2.F Investigate the use of technologies in the home and community.
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3.5.K-2.H Explain the needs and wants of individuals and societies.
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3.5.K-2.L Explore how technologies are developed to meet individual and societal needs and wants.
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Design in Technology and Engineering Education
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3.5.K-2.M Demonstrate essential skills of the engineering design process.
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3.5.K-2.O Illustrate that there are different solutions to a design and that none are perfect.
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3.5.K-2.P Discuss that all designs have different characteristics that can be described.
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3.5.K-2.Q Apply skills necessary for making in design.
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3.5.K-2.S Apply design concepts, principles, and processes through play and exploration.
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3.5.K-2.T Demonstrate that designs have requirements.
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3.5.K-2.U Explain that design is a response to wants and needs.
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Integration of Knowledge, Technologies, and Practices
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3.5.K-2.R Draw connections between technology and human experiences.
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3.5.K-2.W Apply concepts and skills from technology and engineering activities that reinforce concepts and skills across multiple content areas.
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Nature and Characteristics of Technology and Engineering
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3.5.K-2.G Explain the tools and techniques that people use to help them do things.
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3.5.K-2.AA Demonstrate that creating can be done by anyone.
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3.5.K-2.BB Compare the natural world and human-made world.
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3.5.K-2.CC Discuss the roles of scientists, engineers, technologists and others who work with technology.
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Core Concepts of Technology and Engineering
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3.5.K-2.K Safely use tools to complete tasks.
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3.5.K-2.V Explain that materials are selected for use because they possess desirable properties and characteristics.
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3.5.K-2.X Develop a plan in order to complete a task.
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3.5.K-2.Z Illustrate how systems have parts or components that work together to accomplish a goal.
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3.5.K-2.DD Collaborate effectively as a member of a team.
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History of Technology
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3.5.K-2.Y Discuss how the way people live and work has changed throughout history because of technology.
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