Maryland State Standards for Science: Grade 1

MD.1.0. Skills and Processes: Students will demonstrate the thinking and acting inherent in the practice of science.

1.A.1. Constructing Knowledge: Raise questions about the world around them and be willing to seek answers to some of them by making careful observations and trying things out.

1.A.1.a. Describe what can be learned about things by just observing those things carefully and adding information by sometimes doing something to the things and noting what happens. 17
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.A.1.a.

1.A.1.b. Seek information through reading, observation, exploration, and investigations. 17
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.A.1.b.

1.A.1.c. Use tools such as thermometers, magnifiers, rulers, or balances to extend their senses and gather data. 16
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.A.1.c.

1.A.1.d. Explain that when a science investigation is done the way it was done before, we expect to get a very similar result. 15
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.A.1.d.

1.A.1.e. Participate in multiple experiences to verify that science investigations generally work the same way in different places. 15
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.A.1.e.

1.A.1.f. Suggest things that you could do to find answers to questions raised by observing objects and/or phenomena (events such as, water disappearing from the classroom aquarium or a pet's water bowl). 17
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.A.1.f.

1.A.1.g. Use whole numbers and simple, everyday fractions in ordering, counting, identifying, measuring, and describing things and experiences. 211
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.A.1.g.

1.B.1. Applying Evidence and Reasoning: People are more likely to believe your ideas if you can give good reasons for them.

1.B.1.a. Provide reasons for accepting or rejecting ideas examined. 15
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.B.1.a.

1.B.1.b. Develop reasonable explanations for observations made, investigations completed, and information gained by sharing ideas and listening to others' ideas. 17
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.B.1.b.

1.B.1.c. Explain why it is important to make some fresh observations when people give different descriptions of the same thing. 17
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.B.1.c.

1.C.1. Communicating Scientific Information: Ask, 'How do you know?' in appropriate situations and attempt reasonable answers when others ask them the same question.

1.C.1.a. Describe things as accurately as possible and compare observations with those of others. 17
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.C.1.a.

1.C.1.b. Describe and compare things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion. 11
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.C.1.b.

1.C.1.c. Draw pictures that correctly portray at least some features of the thing being described and sequence events (seasons, seed growth). 13
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.C.1.c.

1.C.1.d. Have opportunities to work with a team, share findings with others, and recognize that all team members should reach their own conclusions about what the findings mean. 16
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.C.1.d.

1.C.1.e. Recognize that everybody can do science and invent things and ideas. 17
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.C.1.e.

1.D.1. Technology: Design and make things with simple tools and a variety of materials.

1.D.1.a. Make something out of paper, cardboard, wood, plastic, metal, or existing objects that can actually be used to perform a task. 7
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.D.1.a.

1.D.1.b. Recognize that tools are used to do things better or more easily and to do some things that could not otherwise be done at all. 7
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.D.1.b.

1.D.1.d. Recognize that some kinds of materials are better than others for making any particular thing, for example, materials that are better in some ways (such as stronger and cheaper) may be worse in other ways (such as heavier and harder to cut). 7
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.D.1.d.

1.D.1.e. Explain that sometimes it is not possible to make or do everything that is designed. 10
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.D.1.e.

1.D.2. Technology: Practice identifying the parts of things and how one part connects to and affects another.

1.D.2.a. Investigate a variety of objects to identify that most things are made of parts 20
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.D.2.a.

1.D.2.b. Explain that something may not work if some of its parts are missing. 20
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.D.2.b.

1.D.2.c. Explain that when parts are put together, they can do things that they couldn't do by themselves. 26
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.D.2.c.

1.D.3. Technology: Examine a variety of physical models and describe what they teach about the real things they are meant to resemble.

1.D.3.a. Explain that a model of something is different from the real thing but can be used to learn something about the real thing. 17
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.D.3.a.

1.D.3.b. Realize that one way to describe something is to say how it is like something else. 11
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 1.D.3.b.

MD.2.0. Earth/Space Science: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the chemical and physical interactions (i.e., natural forces and cycles, transfer of energy) of the environment, Earth, and the universe that occur over time.

2.D.2. Astronomy: Recognize that there is a relationship between the sun and the earth. 14
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 2.D.2.

2.D.2.a. Identify ways that the sun affects the earth including that the sun warms the earth and provides light. 9
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 2.D.2.a.

2.E.1. Interactions of Hydrosphere and Atmosphere: Describe observable changes in water on the surface of the Earth.

2.E.1.a. Cite examples of the sun's effect on what happens to water on the Earth's surface: Water disappears from puddles, wet surfaces after rain, any open container, etc.; Water can be a liquid or a solid and go back and forth from one form to another 9
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 2.E.1.a.

2.E.2. Interactions of Hydrosphere and Atmosphere: Describe that some events in nature have repeating patterns.

2.E.2.a. Observe and compare day-to-day weather changes. 23
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 2.E.2.a.

2.E.2.b. Observe, record, and compare weather changes from month to month. 23
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 2.E.2.b.

2.E.2.c. Compare temperatures and type and amount of precipitation across the months. 18
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 2.E.2.c.

2.E.2.d. Identify the impact of weather changes on daily activities. 2
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 2.E.2.d.

2.E.2.e. Identify and describe patterns of weather conditions based on data collected. 23
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 2.E.2.e.

MD.3.0. Life Science: The students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the dynamic nature of living things, their interactions, and the results from the interactions that occur over time.

3.A.1. Diversity of Life: Compare and explain how external features of plants and animals help them survive in different environments.

3.A.1.a. Use the senses and magnifying instruments to examine a variety of plants and animals to describe external features and what they do. 13
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.A.1.a.

3.A.1.b. Compare similar features in some animals and plants and explain how each of these enables the organism to satisfy basic needs. 12
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.A.1.b.

3.A.1.c. Use the information collected to ask and compare answers to questions about how an organism's external features contribute to its ability to survive in an environment. 44
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.A.1.c.

3.A.1.d. Classify organisms according to one selected feature, such as body covering, and identify other similarities shared by organisms within each group formed. 37
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.A.1.d.

3.B.1. Cells: Describe evidence from investigations that living things are made of parts too small to be seen with the unaided eye.

3.B.1.a. Use magnifying instruments to observe parts of a variety of living things, such as leaves, seeds, insects, worms, etc. to describe (drawing or text) parts seen with the magnifier. 3
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.B.1.a.

3.B.1.b. Use information gathered from observations to compare the descriptions (drawings or text) of the different parts seen. 3
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.B.1.b.

3.B.1.c. Describe some of the ideas or questions that might result from examining organisms more closely. 3
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.B.1.c.

3.B.2. Cells: Provide evidence that all organisms are made of parts that help them carry out the basic functions of life.

3.B.2.a. Gather information and direct evidence that humans and other animals have different body parts used to seek, find, and take in food. 155
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.B.2.a.

3.B.2.b. Investigate and identify parts of the body that alert humans and other animals to danger and help them to fight, hide or get out of danger. 59
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.B.2.b.

3.B.2.c. Describe some parts of plants and describe what they do for the plant. 7
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.B.2.c.

3.B.2.d. Respond, giving reasons to support the response, to the statement 'All living things are made of parts.' 128
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.B.2.d.

3.C.1. Genetics: Explain that there are differences among individuals in any population.

3.C.1.a. Examine a variety of populations of plants and animals (including humans), to identify ways that individual members of that population are different from one another. 37
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.C.1.a.

3.C.1.b. Make a list of possible advantages and disadvantages of differences of individuals in a population of organisms. 11
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.C.1.b.

3.C.2. Genetics: Recognize that all living things have offspring, usually with two parents involved.

3.C.2.a. Examine a variety of living things and their offspring and describe what each parent and offspring looks like. 63
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.C.2.a.

3.C.2.b. Identify similarities and differences among the offspring and between the offspring and each parent. 63
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.C.2.b.

3.C.2.c. Based on observations, construct an appropriate response to the question 'Are parents and offspring more similar than they are different?' 63
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.C.2.c.

3.E.1. Flow of Matter and Energy: Describe some of the ways in which animals depend on plants and on each other.

3.E.1.a. Examine organisms in a wide variety of environments to gather information on how animals satisfy their need for food: Some animals eat only plants; Some animals eat only other animals; Some animals eat both plants and other animals. 11
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 3.E.1.a.

MD.4.0. Chemistry: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the composition, structure, and interactions of matter in order to support the predictability of structure and energy transformations.

MD.5.0. Physics: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the interactions of matter and energy and the energy transformations that occur

5.C.3. Electricity and Magnetism: Describe the effect magnets have on a variety of objects.

5.C.3.a. Classify materials based on their behavior in the presence of a magnet. 6
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 5.C.3.a.

5.C.3.b. Describe how the magnet affects the behavior of objects within each group. 6
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 5.C.3.b.

MD.6.0. Environmental Science: Students will use scientific skills and processes to explain the interactions of environmental factors (living and non-living) and analyze their impact from a local to a global perspective.

6.B.1. Environmental Issues: Recognize that caring about the environment is an important human activity.

6.B.1.a. Recognize and describe that individual and group actions, such as recycling, help the environment. 23
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 6.B.1.a.

6.B.1.b. Recognize and describe that individual and group actions, such as littering, harm the environment. 24
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 6.B.1.b.

6.B.1.c. Give reasons why people should take care of their environments. 26
Suggested Titles for Maryland Science State Standard 6.B.1.c.