Texas TEKS K.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 safe steps, observe with their senses, and describe what happened. They also build, test, and improve an object that solves a classroom problem.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can state what they are trying to find out, follow an ordered plan, and share an observation with words or pictures. The student can explain whether a design worked and name one useful change.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may report a guess as if it were an observation. They may change several parts of a test at once or skip planned steps. They may think a first design must work and not try changes.
How to Assess It
- Ask students to draw steps for testing which material keeps an ice cube cold longest. Then have them sketch a container they would build and improve.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs foil, paper, fabric, and ice cubes to test, then have them build a cover that slows melting.
Ask, “How can we find out which classroom object rolls farthest without guessing?” Students draw or explain a fair plan.
Use picture cards showing ask, plan, test, observe, and improve, then let students race to place them in order.
Challenge students to build a block holder that keeps classroom pencils from rolling off a desk, then test and revise it.
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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;
- 1.1.B
The 1st Grade version of this standard.
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