GEMS Correlations with the Georgia State Science Standards
Grade Level Expectations and Benchmarks for Science
for Kindergarten
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Strand: Inquiry
1. Science Inquiry, Process Skills and Problem Solving
Standard: Asks questions, makes and keeps simple records of observations,
sorts objects, communicates with others, and makes predictions and uses
estimation and measurement
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animal
Defenses, Hide a Butterfly, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Eggs Eggs Everywhere,
Elephants and Their Young, Ladybugs, Mother Opossum and Her Babies,
Penguins and Their Young, Tree Homes, Sifting Through Science, Buzzing
a Hive, Bubble Festival, Investigating Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats
2. Reference Skills
Standard: Uses books and other media to obtain information related to
science concepts.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animal
Defenses, Hide a Butterfly, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Eggs Eggs Everywhere,
Elephants and Their Young, Ladybugs, Mother Opossum and Her Babies,
Penguins and Their Young, Tree Homes, Sifting Through Science, Buzzing
a Hive, Bubble Festival, Investigating Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats
3. Safety
Standard: Identifies and practices accepted safety procedures in manipulating
science materials and equipment.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animal
Defenses, Hide a Butterfly, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Eggs Eggs Everywhere,
Elephants and Their Young, Ladybugs, Mother Opossum and Her Babies,
Penguins and Their Young, Tree Homes, Sifting Through Science, Buzzing
a Hive, Bubble Festival, Investigating Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats
4. Activities/Tools
Standard: Actively engages in the learning process via hands-on/minds-on
science activities. Uses appropriate tools to collect and analyze data
and solve problems.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animal
Defenses, Hide a Butterfly, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Eggs Eggs Everywhere,
Elephants and Their Young, Ladybugs, Mother Opossum and Her Babies,
Penguins and Their Young, Tree Homes, Sifting Through Science, Buzzing
a Hive, Bubble Festival, Investigating Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats
Strand: Physical Science
5. Structure of Matter
Standard: Sorts collections of matter by any physical characteristic.
Classifies objects according to pairs of opposite physical properties
such as large, small; heavy, light; sink, float; hot, cold; wet, dry;
or light, dark.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Elephants
and Their Young, Penguins and Their Young, Tree Homes, Sifting Through
Science, Bubble Festival, Investigating Artifacts
6. Structure of Matter
Standard: Sorts by shape, color, size and texture. Differentiates
matter based on contrasts in physical characteristics such as color,
texture, size or shape.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Eggs
Eggs Everywhere, Mother Opossum and Her Babies, Penguins and Their Young,
Tree Homes, Sifting Through Science, Bubble Festival, Investigating
Artifacts
7. Structure of Matter
Standard: Predicts properties of matter and test predictions.
Constructs groups of objects by demonstrating characteristics, such
as sink/float, bend/rigid, attracted/not attracted by magnet. Demonstrates
that air takes up space and has mass by testing these properties using
activities, such as using balloons or sitting on inflated large bags.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Eggs
Eggs Everywhere, Elephants and Their Young, Penguins and Their Young,
Sifting Through Science, Bubble Festival
8. Energy and Its Transformation: Light/Color
Standard: Recognizes, describes and compares colors and sorts by color
families. Identifies, names and groups objects by color.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Hide
a Butterfly, Tree Homes
9. Energy and Its Transformation: Light/Color
Strand: Life Science
11. The Living World: Living Things
Standard: Describes differences between living and nonliving things,
and classifies things as living or nonliving. Sorts examples of objects
into living and nonliving categories, using the following criteria:
movement, growth, reproduction and requirements for food/nutrition,
water, and air.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Ant Homes
Under the Ground, Eggs Eggs Everywhere, Ladybugs, Mother Opossum and
Her Babies, Penguins and Their Young, Tree Homes, Buzzing a Hive, Investigating
Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats
12. The Living World: Living Things
Standard: Recognizes basic needs of most living things. Compares common
needs between a plant and animal (such as sunshine, air, food, and water).
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animal
Defenses, Hide a Butterfly, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Eggs Eggs Everywhere,
Elephants and Their Young, Ladybugs, Mother Opossum and Her Babies,
Penguins and Their Young, Tree Homes, Buzzing a Hive, Terrarium Habitats
13. The Living World: Living Things
Standard: Recognizes factors leading to the survival of living
things. Describes the conditions affecting survival of species, including
changes in climate, availability of shelter, food, air, water, and human
encroachment.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animal
Defenses, Hide a Butterfly, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Eggs Eggs Everywhere,
Elephants and Their Young, Ladybugs, Mother Opossum and Her Babies,
Penguins and Their Young, Tree Homes, Buzzing a Hive, Terrarium Habitats
14. The Living World: Human Body
Standard: Recognizes and describes individual characteristics.
Names positive ways he or she is similar and different from others in
the group.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Elephants
and Their Young, Ladybugs, Mother Opossum and Her Babies, Penguins and
Their Young, Tree Homes
15. The Living World: Human Body
Standard: Uses senses to sort and classify colors, shapes, sizes,
sounds, tastes, odors, textures, and temperatures. Categorizes objects
according to color, shape, size, sound, taste, odor, texture, and temperature,
using the five senses.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Animal
Defenses, Ant Homes Under the Ground, Eggs Eggs Everywhere, Elephants
and Their Young, Ladybugs, Mother Opossum and Her Babies, Penguins and
Their Young, Tree Homes, Sifting Through Science, Buzzing a Hive, Bubble
Festival, Investigating Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats
16. The Living World: Human Body
Standard: Interprets and distinguishes a variety of audio, visual, and
tactile stimuli. Identifies the meaning of various sensory stimuli,
such as traffic lights, stop signs, sirens, speed breakers, bells, railroad
crossings, and gestures.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Elephants
and Their Young, Mother Opossum and Her Babies, Tree Homes, Buzzing
a Hive
Strand: Earth/Space Science
17. Earth Materials
Standard: Recognizes and names common earth materials, such as
soil, rocks, water, and air.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Sifting
Through Science, Investigating Artifacts, Terrarium Habitats
18. Earth Materials
Standard: Sorts rocks and soils by color, size, and texture.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Terrarium
Habitats
19. Earth Materials
Standard: Recognizes features and characteristics of the Earth's
surface. Identifies common surface features such as oceans, lakes, mountains
and others through audiovisuals, models or direct observation.
Appropriate GEMS Teacher Guides: Penguins
and Their Young, Investigating Artifacts
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