Science Education Program Standards Required for K 4 Grades: – NA No K 4 grades (Ed 306.45) – – NHDOE USE Curriculum meets standard ONLY: Yes No NA (a) Pursuant to Ed 306.26, the local school board shall require that a science education program in each school with the grades K-4 provides: Yes No Yes No Planned activities designed to: Develop students' critical thinking skills; Promote the acquisition of positive attitudes, including, but not limited to, Yes No Yes No curiosity, initiative, self-reliance, and persistence; and Develop an awareness of and Yes No Yes No involvement with the natural world; Planned activities designed to increase students' factual knowledge and conceptual understanding of the nature of science, unifying Yes No Yes No themes of science, and physical, biological, and earth space sciences; and Opportunities for students to develop a knowledge and understanding of process skills such as observing, classifying, measuring, and inferring through activities that allow each Yes No Yes No student to: Explore, collect, handle, sort, and classify natural objects; Use strategies to organize and identify the questions children ask from natural Yes No Yes No observations; Use tools, including, but not limited to, nonstandard measures, rulers, and Yes No Yes No magnifiers, to enhance observations and collect represent and interpret data;
Science Education Program Standards (Ed 306.45) Required for K – 4 Grades: NA – No K – 4 grades NHDOE USE ONLY: Curriculum meets standard Yes No NA (a) Pursuant to Ed 306.26, the local school board shall require that a science education program in each school with the grades K-4 provides: Planned activities designed to: Develop students' critical thinking skills; Yes No Yes No Promote the acquisition of positive attitudes, including, but not limited to, curiosity, initiative, self-reliance, and persistence; and Yes No Yes No Develop an awareness of and involvement with the natural world; Yes No Yes No Planned activities designed to increase students' factual knowledge and conceptual understanding of the nature of science, unifying themes of science, and physical, biological, and earth space sciences; and Yes No Yes No Opportunities for students to develop a knowledge and understanding of process skills such as observing, classifying, measuring, and inferring through activities that allow each student to: Explore, collect, handle, sort, and classify natural objects; Yes No Yes No Use strategies to organize and identify the questions children ask from natural observations; Yes No Yes No Use tools, including, but not limited to, nonstandard measures, rulers, and magnifiers, to enhance observations and collect represent and interpret data; Yes No Yes No
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