RPSEC Student Programs for
South Carolina & Georgia Schools

South Carolina Schools

Georgia Schools

Grade 1: SCSS 5.1, 5.2, 5.4

Grade 1 Science
Standard 1-5: The student will demonstrate an understanding of the positions and motions of objects. (Physical Science)

Indicators:
5.1 Identify the location of an object relative to another object.
5.2 Explain the importance of pushing and pulling to the motion of an object.
5.4 Illustrate ways in which objects can move in terms of direction and speed (including straight forward, back and forth, fast or slow, zigzag, and circular).

Grade K: SKP2 a, b / SKP3 a, c
Grade K: MKG2 a, b
Grade 1: M1G3
Grade 2: S2P3 a, b / S2CS3 b / S2CS4 a, b, c

Kindergarten Science
SKP2: Students will investigate different types of motion.

Indicators:
a. Sort objects into categories according to their motion (straight, zigzag, round and round, back and forth, fast and slow, and motionless).
b. Push, pull, and roll common objects and describe their motions.

SKP3: Students will observe and communicate effects of gravity on objects.

Indicators:
a. Recognize that some things, such as airplanes and birds, are in the sky, but return to earth.
c. Explain why a book does not fall down if it is placed on a table, but will fall down if it is dropped.

Kindergarten Mathematics
MKG2: Students will understand basic spatial relationships.

Indicators:
a. Identify when an object is beside another object, above another object, or below another object.
b. Identify when an object is in front of another object, behind another object, inside another object, or outside it.

Grade 1 Mathematics
M1G3: Students will arrange and describe objects in space by proximity, position, and direction (near, far, below, above, up, down, behind, in front of, next to, and left or right of).

Grade 2 Science
S2P3: Students will demonstrate changes in speed and direction using pushes and pulls.

Indicators:
a. Demonstrate how pushing and pulling an object affects the motion of the object.
b. Demonstrate the effects of changes of speed on an object.

S2CS3: Students will use tools and instruments for observing, measuring, and manipulating objects in scientific activities.

Indicator:
b. Assemble, describe, take apart, and reassemble constructions using interlocking blocks, erector sets and other things.

S2CS4: Students will use the ideas of system, model, change, and scale in exploring scientific and technological matters.

Indicators:
a. Identify the parts of things, such as toys or tools, and identify what things can do when put together that they could not do otherwise.
b. Use a model—such as a toy or a picture—to describe a feature of the primary thing.
c. Describe changes in the size, weight, color, or movement of things, and note which of their other qualities remain the same during a specific change.