Kindergarten Instructional Guide

SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION Skill Building

● Utilize sentence stems during group discussions to ensure understanding and to keep the conversation focused on solving the phenomenon. ● Make connections each day to the phenomenon. ● Explicitly teach how to develop an opinion and support it with two reasons. ● Students could research ways of blocking the sunlight with different materials to see if it affects the temperature of an object or the Earth’s surface.

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INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS ELA

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Strand 1 Weather Patterns K.1.2 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information on the effect of forecasted weather patterns on human behavior. Examples could include how humans respond to local forecasts of typical and severe weather such as extreme heat, high winds, fash foods, thunderstorms, or snowstorms. (ESS3.B) Topic 2: Stem Project: Severe Weather i ntegrates with the science standard listed below. Strand 1 Weather Patterns Standard K.1.2 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information on the effect of forecasted weather patterns on human behavior. Examples could include how humans respond to local forecasts of typical and severe weather such as extreme heat, high winds, fash foods, thunderstorms, or snowstorms. (ESS3.B)

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