For the featured breakout Push, Pull, and Play! and the Grade 1 idea set — aligned to the 2021 Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Science (§112.3). Pitched to early readers: observe, sort, sequence, and name.
Recurring themes: patterns, cause & effect, properties, systems (parts of a whole).
| Lock | Skill / thinking move | TEKS (aligned to) | Teacher move |
|---|---|---|---|
| L1 · Sequence The swing | Put the steps of a motion in order; see a push starts it. | 1.7(A) pushes & pulls start, stop, speed up, or turn motion; 1.5(A) patterns. | Act it out with a real swing or toy |
| L2 · Multiple choice The wagon | Choose pull vs. push to bring an object closer. | 1.7(A) pushes & pulls change motion. | Demonstrate; ask "toward or away?" |
| L3 · Picture sort What moves things | Pick the real forces; leave out a true-but-silly fact. | 1.7(A) forces change motion; 1.1(B) use evidence. | Sort picture cards together |
| L4 · Word Name it | Name the force that moves an object away. | 1.7(A) / 1.3(A) observe & describe. | Say it, then type it (help as needed) |
Pair the breakout with the hands-on Roll It Far! ramp challenge — build a ramp so a toy car rolls the farthest, then make it better. Anchored in 1.7 (pushes & pulls) plus engineering practices 1.1(B), 1.1(G), 1.2(D).
The More Grade 1 breakouts add one short activity per big idea: sorting by properties (1.6A), heating & cooling (1.6B / 1.8), seasons (1.9), soil (1.10A), water on Earth (1.10C), weather (1.10D), saving water (1.11), living vs. nonliving (1.12A), food chains (1.12C), and animal bodies & babies (1.13).
Design every lesson for all learners: UDL supports (CAST v3.0), ELPS supports for emergent bilingual students, and a lesson-plan guide — each in all seven languages. See also the full standards correlation.
Standards are aligned to, not reproduced from, the official TEKS.