Scientific Thinking and Technology – Exploring, Scientific Inquiry, and Discovery

Other Pennsylvania Learning Standards for Early Childhood sets

• Approaches to Learning through Play – Constructing, Organizing, and Applying Knowledge
• Creative Thinking and Expression – Communicating through the Arts
• Health, Wellness, and Physical Development – Learning About My Body
• Language and Literacy Development – English Language Arts
• Mathematical Thinking and Expression – Exploring, Processing, and Problem-Solving
• Scientific Thinking and Technology – Exploring, Scientific Inquiry, and Discovery
• Social and Emotional Development – Student Interpersonal Skills

Describe classroom rules .5.1 PK.A.1

Explain a consequence for breaking a classroom rule .5.1 PK.A.2

Discuss images, pictures or items that are symbols of America .5.1 PK.F.1

Identify the American flag .5.1 PK.F.2

Replicate the American flag using art materials .5.1 PK.F.3

Display awareness of role as member of a group .5.2 PK.A.1

Participate in group decision-making .5.2 PK.A.2

Participate in classroom and family responsibilities .5.2 PK.A.3

Talk about responsibilities at home .5.2 PK.A.4

Work cooperatively with other children to achieve an outcome .5.2 PK.A.5

Identify one or two solutions to a problem .5.2 PK.B.1

Attempt to solve a conflict with a peer .5.2 PK.B.2

Work with a peer to develop a solution to a problem (e .g ., ways to share the playdough when there isn’t enough) .5.2 PK.B.3

Suggest simple solutions to conflict which are most often based upon own needs and desires .5.2 PK.B.4

Show interest in leadership opportunities .5.2 PK.C.1

Choose a leader for a classroom project .5.2 PK.C.2

Ask to be the line leader .5.2 PK.C.3

Request to help teacher .5.2 PK.C.4

Match descriptions of people’s work in a community with picture illustrating the job .5.3 PK.C.1

Act out roles of community workers in dramatic play .5.3 PK.C.2

Relay personal experiences to describe the work that community workers do .5.3 PK.C.3

Use inside voices while indoors and outside voices when outdoors .5.3 PK.F.1

Cooperate in both large and small group activities that are facilitated by adult .5.3 PK.F.2

Follow rules and routines in classroom .5.3 PK.F.3

Respond with empathy to others who are upset .5.3 PK.F.4

Recognize when someone needs help and offer assistance .5.3 PK.F.5

Respect another’s attempts to complete tasks independently .5.3 PK.F.6

Understand that some resources are limited .6.1 PK.A.1

Notice when materials are running low (e .g ., “We need more paper in the art area .”) .6.1 PK.A.2

Offer to share materials when materials are scarce (e .g ., one shovel in sensory table) .6.1 PK.A.3

Show preference for one material/center, but choose a different material/center when materials are scarce or center is full6.1 PK.A.4

Identify what people need to survive .6.1 PK.B.1

Demonstrates awareness of one’s own preferences .6.1 PK.B.2

Identify personal wants .6.1 PK.B.3

Make a choice and explain the reason for the choice .6.1 PK.D.1

Provide a reason for choosing to play in a particular center that shows interest in specific materials or people .6.1 PK.D.2

Recognize logos (environmental print) from local businesses .6.2 PK.C.1

Discuss advertisements (e .g ., radio, print, TV)6.2 PK.C.2

Identify that money is used to buy things .6.2 PK.D.1

State that money can be saved .6.2 PK.D.2

Use pretend money while engaging in dramatic play activities .6.2 PK.D.3

Practice exchanging play money for goods .6.2 PK.D.4

Name items that come from farms, factories, and/or businesses within the community .6.3 PK.D.1

Talk about products that can be found around their homes .6.3 PK.D.2

Respond that adults work to earn money .6.5 PK.A.1

Relate that work involves performing an activity that is chosen and directed by someone else, and has a specific goal .6.5 PK.A.2

Relate that play is a self-selected activity that may or may not have a specific purpose .6.5 PK.A.3

Participate in role-play that is related to a local business (e .g ., pet store, hair salon, restaurant) .6.5 PK.C.1

Describe where customers go to acquire specific goods or services (e .g ., food purchased at grocery store, hammer and nails purchased at hardware store) .6.5 PK.C.2

Use a simple map .7.1 PK.A.1

Use available materials (e .g ., blocks) to represent buildings, roads, or houses .7.1 PK.A.2

Include representations of roads, bodies of water, and buildings in play .7.1 PK.A.3

Discuss tools used to locate places .7.1 PK.A.4

Use the term “map .7.1 PK.A.5

Describe the location of items/areas in the classroom and at home .7.1 PK.B.1

Use directionality, size, and position (e .g ., left, right, first, last, little, big, top, bottom) to describe location .7.1 PK.B.2

Place pictures of common household items in the proper rooms of a floor plan .7.1 PK.B.3

Listen to directions and retrieve items .7.1 PK.B.4

Describe simple characteristics of home (e .g ., type of dwelling, where located, what surrounds it) .7.2 PK.A.1

Identify familiar places in the neighborhood .7.2 PK.A.2

Describe simple characteristics of business or community structures (e .g ., type of dwelling, where located, what surrounds it) .7.2 PK.A.3

Demonstrate an understanding of past, present, and future (e .g ., today is , yesterday was , and tomorrow will be , recall information from the immediate past, sequence pictures of self from birth to present) .8.1 PK.A.1

Describe the daily routine (e .g ., what happens first, before lunch, after lunch, at end of day) .8.1 PK.A.2

Show anticipation for regularly- scheduled events .8.1 PK.A.3

Use words to describe time (e .g ., yesterday, today, tomorrow, o’clock) .8.1 PK.A.4

Label types of media and what information can be gained (e .g ., recipes from a cookbook, prices from an advertisement) .8.1 PK.C.1

Locate information on identified topics using media (e .g ., music, books, maps, TV programming, newspapers, magazines, movies, Internet, applications, advertising)8.1 PK.C.2