Draft 5.0 Science
KINDERGARTEN
Classroom Alignment Tool
Optional Curriculum with Oregon’s Common Curriculum Goals, Content Standards, and Eligible Content
PHYSICAL SCIENCE - MATTER
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand structure and properties of matter.
Content Standard: Understand structure and properties of matter.
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Describe size and color of objects.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE - MATTER
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand chemical and physical changes.
Content Standard: Describe and analyze chemical and physical changes.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE - FORCE
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand fundamental forces, their forms, and their effects on motion.
Content Standard: Describe fundamental forces and the motions resulting from them.
PHYSICAL SCIENCE - ENERGY
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand energy, its transformations, and interactions with matter.
Content Standard: Explain and analyze the interaction of energy and matter.
LIFE SCIENCE - ORGANISMS
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand the characteristics, structure, and functions of organisms.
Content Standard: Describe the characteristics, structure, and functions of organisms.
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Sort and classify collections using
various features.
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Recognize that all people have
basic needs including water, food,
and air.
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For more information contact Kathleen Vanderwall at: 503.378.3600, Ext. 2288 or kathleen.vanderwall@state.or.us
Key to Symbols:  Model grade-level statement @ Eligible content, which may be assessed on state knowledge and skills test
 Assessed using state scoring guide. See implementation schedule at: http://www.ode.state.or.us/cifs/science/phasesched.pdf
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LIFE SCIENCE - HEREDITY
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand the transmission of traits in living things.
Content Standard: Understand the transmission of traits in living things.
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Recognize cycle as a pattern.
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LIFE SCIENCE – DIVERSITY/INTERDEPENDENCE
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand the relationships among living things and between living things and
their environments.
Content Standard: Explain and analyze the interdependence of organisms in their natural environment.
LIFE SCIENCE – DIVERSITY/INTERDEPENDENCE
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand the relationships among living things and between living things and
their environments.
Content Standard: Describe and analyze diversity of species, natural selection, and adaptations.
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Understand that plants and animals
have external features, which are
different.
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EARTH/SPACE SCIENCE – THE DYNAMIC EARTH
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand the properties and limited availability of the materials, which make
up the Earth.
Content Standard: Identify the structure of the Earth system and the availability and use of the materials
that make up that system.
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Know that some materials can be
used over again.
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For more information contact Kathleen Vanderwall at: 503.378.3600, Ext. 2288 or kathleen.vanderwall@state.or.us
Key to Symbols:  Model grade-level statement @ Eligible content, which may be assessed on state knowledge and skills test
 Assessed using state scoring guide. See implementation schedule at: http://www.ode.state.or.us/cifs/science/phasesched.pdf
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EARTH/SPACE SCIENCE – THE DYNAMIC EARTH
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand changes occurring within the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and
atmosphere of the Earth.
Content Standard: Explain and analyze changes occurring within the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and
atmosphere of the Earth.
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Know that change is something
that happens to many things. AAAS
BSL 4C, K-2, #2; Atlas p.51
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EARTH/SPACE SCIENCE – THE EARTH IN SPACE
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand the Earth’s place in the solar system and the universe.
Content Standard: Explain relationships among the Earth, sun, moon, and the solar system.
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Identify the sun, moon, stars, and
Earth.
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EARTH/SPACE SCIENCE – THE UNIVERSE
Common Curriculum Goal: Describe natural objects, events, and processes outside the Earth, both past
and present.
SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY – FORMING A QUESTION OR HYPOTHESIS
Common Curriculum Goal: Formulate and express scientific questions or hypotheses to be investigated.
Content Standard: Make observations. Formulate and express scientific questions or hypotheses to be
investigated based on the observations.
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Make observations.
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Describe things in terms of their
number, shape, size, and color.
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For more information contact Kathleen Vanderwall at: 503.378.3600, Ext. 2288 or kathleen.vanderwall@state.or.us
Key to Symbols:  Model grade-level statement @ Eligible content, which may be assessed on state knowledge and skills test
 Assessed using state scoring guide. See implementation schedule at: http://www.ode.state.or.us/cifs/science/phasesched.pdf
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Raise questions about the world
around the students.
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SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY – DESIGNING AN INVESTIGATION
Common Curriculum Goal: Design safe and ethical scientific investigations to address questions or
hypotheses.
Content Standard: Design scientific investigations to address and explain questions or hypotheses.
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Follow a list of steps.
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SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY – COLLECTING AND PRESENTING DATA
Common Curriculum Goal: Conduct procedures to collect, organize, and display scientific data.
Content Standard: Collect, organize, and display scientific data.
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Describe or draw simple
observations.
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Understand and make a simple
graph as a class or group. AAAS BSL
9A, K-2, #4; Atlas p.115
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SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY – ANALYZING AND INTERPRETING RESULTS
Common Curriculum Goal: Analyze scientific information to develop and present conclusions.
Content Standard: Analyze scientific information to develop and present conclusions.
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Describe the data from a graph.
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For more information contact Kathleen Vanderwall at: 503.378.3600, Ext. 2288 or kathleen.vanderwall@state.or.us
Key to Symbols:  Model grade-level statement @ Eligible content, which may be assessed on state knowledge and skills test
 Assessed using state scoring guide. See implementation schedule at: http://www.ode.state.or.us/cifs/science/phasesched.pdf
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UNIFYING CONCEPTS AND PROCESS
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand that any collection of things that have an influence on one another
can be thought of as a system.
Know that most things are made of
parts. AAAS BSL 11A, K-2, #1; Atlas
p.35,55,57,73,75 &133
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UNIFYING CONCEPTS AND PROCESS
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand that a model is a tentative scheme or structure with explanatory
power.
UNIFYING CONCEPTS AND PROCESS
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand that both patterns of change and stability are important in the
natural world.
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Observe changes in the world.
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UNIFYING CONCEPTS AND PROCESS
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand that changes in scale influence the characteristics, properties and
relationships within a system.
HISTORY AND NATURE OF SCIENCE
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand that science is a human endeavor practiced by individuals from
many different cultures.
HISTORY AND NATURE OF SCIENCE
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand that scientific knowledge is subject to change based on new
findings and results of scientific observation and experimentation.
For more information contact Kathleen Vanderwall at: 503.378.3600, Ext. 2288 or kathleen.vanderwall@state.or.us
Key to Symbols:  Model grade-level statement @ Eligible content, which may be assessed on state knowledge and skills test
 Assessed using state scoring guide. See implementation schedule at: http://www.ode.state.or.us/cifs/science/phasesched.pdf
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HISTORY AND NATURE OF SCIENCE
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand that scientific knowledge distinguishes itself through the use of
empirical standards, logical arguments, and skepticism.
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Know the difference between a
statement and a question.
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SCIENCE AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE
Common Curriculum Goal: Describe the role of science and technology in local, national, and global issues.
SCIENCE AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE
Common Curriculum Goal: Describe how daily choices of individuals, taken together, affect global
resource cycles, ecosystems, and natural resource supplies.
SCIENCE AND SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE
Common Curriculum Goal: Explain risks and benefits in personal and community health from a science
perspective.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand the relationship that exists between science and technology.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Common Curriculum Goal: Understand the process of technological design to solve problems and meet
needs.
For more information contact Kathleen Vanderwall at: 503.378.3600, Ext. 2288 or kathleen.vanderwall@state.or.us
Key to Symbols:  Model grade-level statement @ Eligible content, which may be assessed on state knowledge and skills test
 Assessed using state scoring guide. See implementation schedule at: http://www.ode.state.or.us/cifs/science/phasesched.pdf
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