Kindergarten Instructional Guide

INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES ● CSD Science Lesson Plans with Additional Resources ● Kindergarten OER Textbook 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 sort plants and animals by their characteristics to determine where they would live.

Extension

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS ELA

Wonders Read-Write Companion Read-a-Loud p. 38 A Home for Clyde Wonders Read-Write Companion Read-a-Loud p. 130 Winter Warriors

Wonders Leveled Reader “We Clean”

Strand 1.2: The Needs Of Living Things and Their Offspring

Standard 1.2.4 Construct an explanation of the patterns in the behaviors of parents and offspring which help offspring to survive. Examples of behavioral patterns could include the signals that offspring make such as crying, chirping, and other vocalizations or the responses of the parents such as feeding, comforting, and protecting the offspring. (LS1.B)

Topic 6: Stem Project, Baby Animals

Math

KaiBot STEM Integration STEM

● CSD Science Lesson Plans with KaiBot and PBL Projects