The Standards

Kindergarten

Motion and Stability: Forces and Interactions

Students who demonstrate understanding can:

Performance Expectations

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. K-PS2-2

Clarification Statement and Assessment Boundary

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.

Science and Engineering Practices

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

Analyzing data in K–2 builds on prior experiences and progresses to collecting, recording, and sharing observations.

Analyze data from tests of an object or tool to determine if it works as intended. (K-PS2-2)

Disciplinary Core Ideas

PS2.A: Forces and Motion

Pushes and pulls can have different strengths and directions. (K-PS2-2)

Pushing or pulling on an object can change the speed or direction of its motion and can start or stop it. (K-PS2-2)

ETS1.A: Defining and Delimiting Engineering Problems

A situation that people want to change or create can be approached as a problem to be solved through engineering. Such problems may have many acceptable solutions. (secondary to K-PS2-2)

Crosscutting Concepts

Cause and Effect

Simple tests can be designed to gather evidence to support or refute student ideas about causes. (K-PS2-2)

Planning

Common Core State Standards Connections

ELA/Literacy

RI.K.1 - With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text. (K-PS2-2)
SL.K.3 - Ask and answer questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood. (K-PS2-2)

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