Grade 1 Science BC Learning Standards Standards

Generate and introduce new or refined ideas when problem solving

Big Ideas

Questioning and predicting

Planning and conducting

Processing and analyzing data and information

Evaluating

Applying and innovating

Communicating

Students are expected to know the following:

Science

Curricular Competencies

Content

classification of living and non-living things

Communicate observations and ideas using oral or written language, drawing, or role-play

Take part in caring for self, family, classroom and school through personal approaches

Compare observations with those of others

Experience and interpret the local environment

Make and record observations

Demonstrate curiosity and a sense of wonder about the world

Living things have features and behaviours that help them survive in their environment.

names of local plants and animals

Express and reflect on personal experiences of place

Transfer and apply learning to new situations

Consider some environmental consequences of their actions

Recognize First Peoples stories (including oral and written narratives), songs, and art, as ways to share knowledge

Safely manipulate materials to test ideas and predictions

Observe objects and events in familiar contexts

Matter is useful because of its properties.

structural features of living things in the local environment

Sort and classify data and information using drawings, pictographs and provided tables

Make and record simple measurements using informal or non-standard methods

Ask simple questions about familiar objects and events

Light and sound can be produced and their properties can be changed.

behavioural adaptations of animals in the local environment

Compare observations with predictions through discussion

Observable patterns and cycles occur in the local sky and landscape.

specific properties of materials allow us to use them in different ways

Identify simple patterns and connections

natural and artificial sources of light and sound (sources)

properties of light and sound depend on their source and the objects with which they interact

common objects in the sky

the knowledge of First Peoples

local patterns that occur on Earth and in the sky