Common Core Reading (CCSS):

• Informational/NonFiction Standards R.I 1-10 for grades K-2.
• Writing Standards W1,2,4,5,6,7,9 for grades K-2.
• Listening and Speaking Standards SL1-SL6. 

NGSS Standards:

• K-ESS3-3: Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.

• 2-PS1-1. Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable

  properties

• 2-PS1-2. Analyze data obtained from testing different materials to determine which materials have the properties that are best suited for an intended purpose.

• 2-PS1-3. Make observations to construct an evidence-based account of how an object made of a small set of pieces can be disassembled and made into a new object. 

• 2-PS1-4. Construct an argument with evidence that some changes caused by heating or cooling can be reversed and some cannot.

• NGSS SEP: Asking Questions and Defining Problems, Planning and Carrying Out Investigations, Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information
• NGSS CC: Energy and Matter, Cause and Effect, structure and function, stability and change.