Keep records as appropriate -- such as pictorial records -- of investigations conducted.
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Description |
| Moon Walk | In this lesson, students will observe the daytime sky to determine if the moon can be seen during the day. Students will record their daily observations for one week. Students will complete a Venn diagram illustrating objects seen in the daytime sky, nighttime sky, and both. |
| The Five Senses | The five senses are essential to understanding the world around us. What body parts relate to each of the five senses? How do we use the five senses to discover new information? Students will encounter these questions and more as they explore the five senses and their corresponding body parts through observation and conversation. |
| Have You Ever Met a Tree? | The students practice making observations of a specific tree and write about it as though they are a scientist. |
| Let's Be Scientists: Notebooking with a Purpose | In this lesson, students learn about one of the jobs a scientist does: keeping a notebook or journal. The students will earn a procedure for completing an accurate Science Notebook entry. The teacher can follow this process throughout the year to develop students who are proficient in Science Notebooking. |
| Kindergarten Listening Walk | Students will record what they hear on a nature walk. They will learn that sounds are all around us and that they are made by vibrations. |
| Building a Tall Tower - an Engineering Design Challenge | This Engineering Design Challenge is intended to help students apply the concept of gravity in an engineering design challenge. |
| Did You Hear That? | This lesson focuses on different sound qualities and being able to distinguish the different qualities. This lesson explains how vibrations cause sound to be produced. How sound travels is also explored during this lesson. These concepts are explored while children solve an engineering design challenge through guided inquiry. |
| Bubble Baffle | This lesson provides students an opportunity recognizing the properties of objects and how objects move as well as working collaboratively to solve an engineering design challenge. This lesson is not the first introduction to sorting objects by their properties and observing how objects move, but a way for children to apply the concept in a more in-depth manner. |
| Double Bubble Science | In this lesson, students will understand how to use the scientific method to find answers to questions. Students will understand how an inventor uses a question to solve a problem. Students will investigate how to make bubbles with household items and identify different steps of the scientific method that help solve a problem. |
| All Aboard! Pushes and Pulls | After completing performance tasks in science on pushing and pulling, students will have an opportunity to apply their new learning to reading informational text about vehicles that can push and pull. This lesson focuses specifically on pushing and pulling of trains by the engine. |
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Description |
| Where Plants and Animals Live | This site features activity ideas on comparing plants and animals in different habitats. It also includes a virtual manipulative, black line masters for activity ideas, and a family newsletter to encourage family involvement. |
| The Five Senses - Differentiated Lesson for ESL/Special Needs Students | This guided inquiry activity is designed to help students understand that people get all of their knowledge from their senses, and that is why our senses are so important. |
| Make a Winter Weather Pictograph | This is an activity on collecting and charting the data of weather conditions. An extension of this activity would be to create different kinds of graphs based on the data collected. |
| All About Motion | Students will observe and discuss motion in learning stations or in demonstration. They will observe and discuss how a push or pull affects motion. |
| Birds' Bills | Students will compare and contrast different kinds of birds' bills and categorize pictures. After drawing the bills in each category, they will then compare the bill types with common household items. |
| Investigating Motion With Marbles | In this guided inquiry activity, students will use 2 marbles of different size and a box to investigate what makes the marbles move and what will cause the marbles to change speed and direction. |
| Moon and Stars | In this printable craft activity, learners create a string of cut-out moons and stars. This activity is phrased to encourage a parent and child to look at the Moon every night, and make simple illustrations of what they see, but can be adapted for various groups of learners. When learners have three or four different shapes drawn, they can cut out as many as desired and create a pattern, string them together, and hang them in a special place. Learners create simple patterns at first (A, B, A, B) and move on to more complex patterns as they mature and gain experience. |
| Sharing What We Know About Organisms | Students discuss living and nonliving organisms, including plants and animals. |
| What Is Water? | The lesson introduces students to the properties of water and its presence in the environment. |
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Description |
| Exploring the Five Senses | This unit explores the five senses and their respective related body parts. It shows how observations of the natural world are made using our senses. |
| Ladybugs | These lessons explore the characteristics and behavior of ladybugs, and to create their own paper model of a ladybug. |
| Touching and Fair Tests with Pill Bugs and Earthworms | This unit shows students how to humanely handle pill bugs ("roly polies") and earthworms while observing their characteristics. Students will explore the types of conditions that each bug prefers to live in (eg., wet or dry, dark or light). |
| Comparing Plants, Animals, and Seeds | These lessons compare and contrast plants versus animals and seeds versus plants in regards to both appearance and behavior/function. |
| Fast and Slow Motion | This unit introduces the terms "fast" and "slow" in regards to motion objects and explore how different objects move. |
| Name |
Description |
| Where Plants and Animals Live: | This site features activity ideas on comparing plants and animals in different habitats. It also includes a virtual manipulative, black line masters for activity ideas, and a family newsletter to encourage family involvement. |
| Moon and Stars: | In this printable craft activity, learners create a string of cut-out moons and stars. This activity is phrased to encourage a parent and child to look at the Moon every night, and make simple illustrations of what they see, but can be adapted for various groups of learners. When learners have three or four different shapes drawn, they can cut out as many as desired and create a pattern, string them together, and hang them in a special place. Learners create simple patterns at first (A, B, A, B) and move on to more complex patterns as they mature and gain experience. |
