Kindergarten Instructional Guide

● CSD Science Lesson Plans ● Kindergarten OER Textbook

SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION

● 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.

Skill Building

Extension

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS

ELA

Wonders Read-Write Companion Read-a-Loud p. 38 “A Home for Clyde”

Wonders Leveled Reader “We Clean”

Strand K.2 Living Things and Their Surroundings Standard K.2.3 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate i nformation about how living things (plants and animals, including humans) affect their surroundings to survive. Examples could include squirrels digging in the ground to hide their food, plant roots breaking concrete, or humans building shelters. (ESS2.E) Topic 6: Stem Project, Baby Animals i ntegrates with the science standard listed below. Strand K.2 Living Things and Their Surroundings Standard K.2.3 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate i nformation about how living things (plants and animals, including humans) affect their surroundings to survive. Examples could include squirrels digging in the ground to hide their food, plant roots breaking concrete, or humans building shelters. (ESS2.E)

Math