Kindergarten Instructional Guide

● Push ● Pull

● Analyze ● Data ● Test ● Compare ● Relationship

● Change ● Motion ● Problem

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 investigate how cones, cylinders, spheres and blocks move and keep track of their fndings in a table with categories such as roll, stack glide, etc.

Extension

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS ELA

Wonders Read-Write Companion Read-a-Loud p. 102 Tools

Wonders Leveled Reader “Play with Shapes”

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 13: Stem Project, How Do Objects Move?

Math

KaiBot Integration and PBL Project STEM

● CSD Science Lesson Plans with KaiBot and PBL Projects