Texas TEKS 1.1.B
The Standard
use scientific practices to plan and conduct simple descriptive investigations and use engineering practices to design solutions to problems
Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students ask a simple question, choose materials, follow steps, observe closely, and record what they notice. They also build, test, and improve an object that solves a problem.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students can explain their plan before starting and describe results using words, drawings, or simple measurements. They can test a design and name one useful change.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may record guesses instead of observations or begin without a plan. They may think the first design must work or change it without explaining why.
How to Assess It
- Give students this exit ticket: Plan how you would compare two paper towels, then draw one tool you would use and one observation you would record.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups ice cubes, plates, and cups, then have them plan and observe which covering slows melting.
Ask students to write or draw how an investigation plan differs from a plan for building a solution.
Play Plan, Test, Improve by giving teams picture cards to arrange in a sensible design order.
Challenge students to build a foil tray that carries five counters across a tub of water.
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Related Standards
- 2.1.B
use scientific practices to plan and conduct simple descriptive investigations and use engineering practices to design solutions to problems;
- 3.1.B
use scientific practices to plan and conduct descriptive investigations and use engineering practices to design solutions to problems;
- 5.1.B
use scientific practices to plan and conduct descriptive and simple experimental investigations and use engineering practices to design solutions to problems;
- K.1.B
The Kindergarten version of this standard.
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