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The standard I chose was a Kindergarten standard because most of my students in my special education classroom are in Kindergarten. The standard is K-PS3-1: Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface.
The Science and Engineering Practice (SEP) for this standard is Planning and Carrying out Investigations. With this SEP at the Kindergarten level it is very important to help students develop a question, come up with variables (independent and dependent), and come up with controls. Kindergarten students will need a lot of scaffolding to come up with these things. The Kindergarten students will likely be given variables to try out. These students may want to gather additional materials to investigate with after you give them the initial variables. As a student moves to middle school it is important to allow them to try variables on their own without suggestions from you.
The Disciplinary Core Idea (DCI) is Conservation of energy and energy transfer. This standard is specifically looking at the transfer of energy in the form of heat from the sun to warm the Earth. It also talks about sunlight's effect on plants and keeping them alive. Something that is very important to convey to your students is that all energy is conserved. Eventually students think energy is lost, such as when a pendulum stops swinging, but it is actually transferred to heat energy. There are three types of energy transfer (conduction, convection, and radiation) and the one this standard focuses on is radiation.
The Cross Cutting Concept (CCC) is Cause and Effect. Finding out cause and effect is innate in humans. In the early elementary ages like Kindergarten you will discuss cause and effect with items that are more obvious. The example the video gave was to grow plants and ask students what the plants needed to grow (i.e. water, sun, soil).
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