ODE Early Learning Content Standards
> Explore how their actions may cause changes in the
environment that are sometimes reversible (e.g., hand
in flowing water changes the current) and sometimes
irreversible (e.g., rock dropped that breaks).
> Demonstrate understanding of fast and slow relative to
time, motion and phenomena (e.g., ice melting, soil
eroding, water running quickly down a steep hill
compared to running slowly down a gentle hill).
> Explore and compare materials that provide many
different sensory experiences (e.g., sand, water, wood).
> Demonstrate understanding of motion related words
(e.g., up, down, fast, slow, rolling, jumping, backward,
forward).
> Explore ways of moving objects in different ways (e.g.,
pushing, pulling, kicking, rolling, throwing, dropping).
> Predict what will happen next based on previous
experiences (e.g., when a glass falls off the table and
hits the tile floor, it most likely will break).
> Investigate natural laws acting upon objects, events and
organisms (e.g., repeatedly dropping objects to observe
the laws of gravity, observing the life cycle of insects).
> Use one or more of the senses to observe and learn
about objects, organisms and phenomena for a purpose
(e.g., to record, classify, compare, talk about).
> Offer ideas and explanations (through drawings,
emergent writing, conversation, movement) of objects,
organisms and phenomena, which may be correct or
incorrect.
> Participate in simple, spontaneous scientific
explorations with others (e.g., digging to the bottom
of the sandbox, testing materials that sink or float).