We’ve created a library of videos, categorized by grade and Performance Expectation (PE). Each PE is broken down into a series of Learning Performances (LPs), which are more manageable, three-dimensional performance statements. These LPs are showcased within the videos to demonstrate the steps students take in achieving the PE. The collection of videos and supporting materials is continually expanding. Contact us for more information!
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1-PS4-1 Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
Plan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate. Performance Expectation | Grade: K-2, 1
1-PS4-2 Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated. Performance Expectation | Grade: K-2, 1
TESTING AUTOMATIC DISPLAY
Life Science
1-LS1-1: PEUse materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive, grow, and meet their needs.
- Life Science: Structure and Function for Kids
Shows how plants and animals have external structures that help them survive in their environment. Includes examples of external structures and how they function. - What is Biomimicry? – Nature’s Ingenious Solutions Explored!
Shows examples of biomimicry. - Mimicking Plants and Animals Read-Along
Read along from a student workbook including examples of animal parts and biomimicry. - Biomimicry 101 – Examples of How We Copied Nature
Shows examples of biomimicry from plants and animals. - Biomimicry: Sticky Wonders
Shows examples of biomimicry such as velcro and a waterproof glue modeled after mussel adhesive.
Read texts and use media to determine patterns in behavior of parents and offspring that help offspring survive.
- Best Animal Moms Ever
Shows examples of how parent animals care for their young. - How Animals Take Care of Their Offspring
Shows a variety of animals and how parents take care of their offspring to help them survive. - How Parent and Baby Animals Survive in their Habitats
Recording of lesson on how parents help their offspring survive. - 1st Grade Life Science – Virtual Field Trip
Shows examples of similarities and differences between plant and animal parents and offspring through a “virtual field trip” to the California Science Center. - Wild Animal Families
Shows a variety of animals (elephant, orangutan, duck, kangaroo, penguin, and seahorse) and how parents take care of their offspring to help them survive.
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, their parents.
- Animal and Plant Families
Recording of a lesson on similarities and differences between animal and plant parents and their offspring. - Similarities and Differences of Parents and their Offspring
Recording of a lesson on similarities and differences between animal and plant parents and their offspring. - Parents and Offspring
Shows examples of similarities and differences between plant and animal parents and offspring.
Physical Science
1-PS4-1: PEPlan and conduct investigations to provide evidence that vibrating materials can make sound and that sound can make materials vibrate.
- Can I Make Salt Dance With My Voice?
Shows how sound vibrations can make objects move, demonstrated by grains of salt moving on plastic wrap when exposed to someone’s voice. - Sound, Vibrations and Sound Waves
Explains that sound is caused by vibrations. - How Vibrations Cause Sound Waves
Explains that sound is caused by vibrations. - Sounds are caused when an object vibrates, but can sound cause another object to vibrate?
Shows how sound vibrations can make objects move, demonstrated by rice bouncing on a plastic-covered bowl when exposed to the sound of a metal potbeing hit next to it. - Sound and vibration: do you hear what I hear?
Animated video about vibration and sound waves, and how vibration is used when instruments make sounds. - How Vibrations Create Sound Waves and Help Us Hear
Shows how pushing or pulling on objects can create vibrations that move the air, forming sound waves. - Can Sound Move Objects? – Cool Science Experiment
Shows how sound vibrations can make objects move, demonstrated by rice bouncing on a plastic-covered bowl when exposed to sound from a speaker.
Make observations to construct an evidence-based account that objects in darkness can be seen only when illuminated.
Plan and conduct investigations to determine the effect of placing objects made with different materials in the path of a beam of light.
Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.