Grade 1 Science Colorado standards Standards

Practice responsible, ethical, and safe use of computing technology and the internet.

Digital Citizenship

Design and create programs, individually and collaboratively, for a variety of disciplines.

Computer Programming

Use systems thinking to describe networks and common software and hardware components.

Computing Systems and Networks

Represent and analyze data in order to generate new knowledge and capability.

Systematically analyze a problem using decomposition and abstraction to formulate a solution.

Develop, utilize, and evaluate algorithms, to model and solve problems.

Computational Thinking

An algorithm is a set of steps for a specific purpose and can be modified.

Create and follow algorithms (sets of step-by-step instructions) to complete tasks.

Debug (identify and fix) errors in an algorithm or program that includes sequences and simple loops.

Using correct terminology, describe steps taken, and choices made during the process of program development and revision.

Complex problems can be broken into smaller parts to facilitate solving the problem.

Decompose (break down) the steps needed to solve a problem into a precise sequence of instructions.

Data is information that can be collected, stored, and represented in a variety of ways.

Find, add, change, and delete information using a computing device and define the information stored as data.

Collect and present the same data in various visual formats.

Describe patterns in data using visual representations such as charts or graphs, to make predictions.

Use numbers or other symbols to represent information and describe that this is similar to how computer programs represent information.

Computing systems rely on both hardware and software, that can be local or accessed remotely.

Describe basic hardware and software problems using accurate terminology.

Describe the difference between online and local use of computing devices.

Recognize that equipment is needed to access a network.

A computer program is a sequence of steps that is expressed in a computer programming language so that a computer can follow and perform the steps.

Use appropriate software to perform a variety of tasks.

Develop programs with sequences to express ideas or address a problem.

Cite sources when using the ideas and creations of others while developing programs.

Digital citizenship plays a role in our everyday lives both in person and online.

Explain that there are rules for interacting online that are intended to keep people safe.

Differentiate between appropriate and inappropriate online behavior.

Earth and Space Science

Patterns of movement of the sun, moon and stars as seen from Earth can be observed, described and predicted.

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

Make observations at different times of year to relate the amount of daylight to the time of year.

Life Science

All organisms have external parts that they use to perform daily functions.

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.

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

Young organisms are very much, but not exactly, like their parents, and also resemble other organisms of the same kind.

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

Physical Science

Sound can make matter vibrate and vibrating matter can make sound.

Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make a sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.

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

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

Use tools and materials to design and build a device that used light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.