Kindergarten Instructional Guide

● Direction ● Cause ● Effects ● Change

● Faster ● Speed ● Shape ● Motion

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 different kinds of wheels and how they make an object move (

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INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS ELA

Wonders Read-Write Companion Read-a-Loud p. 122 Playground Pushes andPulls

Wonders Leveled Reader “A Way to Go”

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 12: Stem Project, Pushing and Pulling Shapes

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