Proposed Irvine Unified School District
Thinking and Reasoning Standards
(by Level)
Primary Level - Grades K through 2
Overarching Standard 1: Constructing Support
Understands and applies the basic principles of presenting an argument |
| 1. Understands that people are more likely to believe a person's ideas if that person can give good reasons for them |
| 2. Provides coherent (though not necessarily valid or convincing) answers when asked why one believes something to be true or how one knows something |
| 3. Asks "how do you know" in appropriate situations |
Overarching Standard 2: Making Connections
Effectively uses mental processes that are based on identifying similarities and differences (compares, contrasts, classifies) |
| 1. Classifies objects by size, color, or other significant characteristics 2 |
| 2. Identifies the similarities and differences between persons, places, things, and events using concrete criteria |
| 3. Describes and compares things in terms of number, shape, texture, size, weight, color, and motion 2, 3 |
| 4. Recognizes simple patterns in the surrounding events and objects 2 |
Overarching Standard 3: Scientific Inquiry
Understands and applies basic principles of hypothesis testing and scientific inquiry |
| 1.Asks "how do you know" in appropriate situations and attempts to provide reasonable answers when others ask the same question |
| 2. Understands that changing one thing sometimes causes changes in something else and that changing the same thing in the same way usually has the same result 3 |
1 - English Language Arts
2 - Math
3 - Science
4 - Social Studies
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