GEMS Correlations with the Georgia State Science Standards
Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
for First Grade
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Strand: Inquiry
1. Science Inquiry, Process Skills and Problem Solving
Standard: Asks questions, classifies objects based on similarities
and differences, communicates with others, makes inferences and predictions,
uses estimation and measurement, uses evidence to construct explanations,
and makes sketches and diagrams to explain ideas.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Sifting
Through Science, Buzzing a Hive, Bubble Festival, Investigating Artifacts,
Terrarium Habitats, Involving Dissolving, Liquid Explorations, Secret
Formulas, Aquatic Habitats, Mystery Festival
2. Reference Skills
Standard: Uses books and other media to obtain information related to
science concepts.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Sifting
Through Science, Buzzing a Hive, Bubble Festival, Investigating Artifacts,
Terrarium Habitats, Involving Dissolving, Liquid Explorations, Secret
Formulas, On Sandy Shores, Aquatic Habitats, Mystery Festival
3. Safety
Standard: Identifies and practices accepted safety procedures
in manipulating science materials and equipment.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Sifting
Through Science, Buzzing a Hive, Bubble Festival, Investigating Artifacts,
Terrarium Habitats, Involving Dissolving, Liquid Explorations, Secret
Formulas, On Sandy Shores, Aquatic Habitats, Mystery Festival
4. Activities/Tools
Standard: Actively engages in the learning process via hands-on/minds-on
science activities and experiences. Uses appropriate tools to collect
and analyze data and solve problems.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Sifting
Through Science, Buzzing a Hive, Bubble Festival, Investigating Artifacts,
Terrarium Habitats, Involving Dissolving, Liquid Explorations, Secret
Formulas, On Sandy Shores, Aquatic Habitats, Mystery Festival
Strand: Physical Science
5. Structure of Matter
Standard: Recognizes that all matter takes up space and has mass. Observes
and discusses the space gases take up in an inflated balloon, water
takes up in an aquarium and various solids take up around the room.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Bubble
Festival, Liquid Explorations, Aquatic Habitats
6. Structure of Matter
Standard: Distinguishes among states of matter (solid, liquid,
and gas). Sorts objects according to solid, liquid or gas.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Sifting
Through Science, Involving Dissolving, Liquid Explorations, Secret Formulas
7. Structure of Matter
Standard: Recognizes and compares physical properties of objects
(e.g., weight, size, and buoyancy).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Sifting
Through Science, Bubble Festival, Investigating Artifacts, On Sandy
Shores
8. Structure of Matter
Standard: Predicts changes in states of matter such as when water
is heated or frozen.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Sifting
Through Science, Involving Dissolving, Secret Formulas
9. Structure of Matter
Standard: Recognizes that all matter does not change in the same
way. Observes a variety of changes such as: a nail in water compared
to plastic in water; a wooden block in the freezer compared with water
in a freezer; slice of apple compared with slice of orange.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Involving
Dissolving, Liquid Explorations, On Sandy Shores
Strand: Life Science
10. The Living World: Plants
Standard: Describes how plants use water, nutrients and light to produce
their own food in a process called photosynthesis. Compares plants grown
with all of these resources with plants deprived of these resources.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Aquatic
Habitats
12. The Living World: Plants
Standard: Identifies and explains function of main parts of a plant.
Names parts of plant and explains function of each (root, stem, leaf
and flower).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Buzzing
a Hive
13. The Living World: Plants
Standard: Observes and describes plant parts as they grow and
change. Compares the roots, stems and leaves of various plants as they
grow from seeds to mature plants.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Terrarium
Habitats
14. The Living World: Plants
Standard: Identifies varieties of plants and their uses. Identifies
trees, shrubs, herbs, flowers, fruits and vegetables. Recognizes that
plants are used for beauty, food, clothing and shelter.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Buzzing
a Hive, Aquatic Habitats
15. Ecology: Interdependence of Life
Standard: Identifies and describes habitats (desert, woodland,
ponds, streams) of plants and animals and their characteristics (light,
moisture, temperature).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Terrarium
Habitats, On Sandy Shores, Aquatic Habitats
16. Ecology: Interdependence of Life
Standard: Matches various animals and plants to their habitat
based on needs.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Buzzing
a Hive, On Sandy Shores, Aquatic Habitats
17. Ecology: Interdependence of Life
Standard: Identifies the many feeding relationships possible among
various plants and animals. Illustrates food chains and food webs and
predator-prey relationships.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Buzzing
a Hive, Terrarium Habitats, On Sandy Shores, Aquatic Habitats
18. Ecology: Interdependence of Life
Standard: Recognizes how plants and animals interact and depend
on one another. Illustrates the many ways plants and animals interact
(pollination, shelter and seed dispersal).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Buzzing
a Hive, Terrarium Habitats, On Sandy Shores, Aquatic Habitats
Strand: Earth/Space Science
19. Space: Astronomy
Standard: Observes and discusses apparent motion of sun and moon.
Understands that the sun, moon and stars appear in the east and set
in the west. Plots the apparent movement of the sun and moon in the
sky using shadows or other devices.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Investigating
Artifacts
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