Kindergarten Instructional Guide
VOCABULARY ● Survival ● Human
● Design ● Model ● Compare ● Surroundings ● Respond
● Environment ● Natural Resources
● Problem ● Solution ● Sketch
● Cause ● Effect
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 research how sound vibrations travel through different types of materials (water, solid objects, etc.)
Extension
INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS ELA
Wonders Read-Write Companion Read-a-Loud p. 126 Welcome to Prairie DogTown Wonders Read-Write Companion Read-a-Loud p. 138 Beavers are Builders
Wonders Leveled Reader “Help Clean Up”
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 8: Stem Project, Recycling
Math
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