First Grade Science objectives build on the process skills and add data gathering and reporting. Through a progressive rigorous, inquiry-based program of study, all students demonstrate scientific literacy and the use of 21st century skills in the fields of life science, physical science, and earth and space sciences. By engaging in active inquiries, investigations and hands-on activities throughout the instructional day, students focus on the major themes of science: systems, changes, and models in order to develop conceptual understanding and research skills as described in the objectives. Engineering, Technology, and the Application of Science objectives are integrated throughout instruction as students define problems and design solutions related to the course objectives.  Students use safe and proper techniques for handling, manipulating, caring for science materials, and treating living organisms humanely. The content develops early problem-solving skills through observing, experimenting and concluding. First Grade Science intentionally supports developmental and academic growth.

Topic: All West Virginia teachers are responsible for classroom instruction that integrates content literacy and 21st Century Learning Skills and Technology Tools.

S.1.GS.1

Students will plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

S.1.GS.2

Students will make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects can be seen only when illuminated.

S.1.GS.3

Students will plan and conduct an investigation to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.

S.1.GS.4

Students will use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.*

Topic: Structure, Function, and Information Processing.

S.1.GS.5

Students will 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.*

S.1.GS.6

Students will read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.

S.1.GS.7

Students will make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.

Topic: Space Systems-Patterns and Cycles

S.1.GS.8

Students will use observations of the sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

S.1.GS.9

Students will make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.

Grade K-2: Science (Engineering, Technology, and Applications of Science)

Topic: Engineering Design

S.K-2.ETS.1

Students will ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.

S.K-2.ETS.2

Students will develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.

S.K-2.ETS.3

Students will analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.