Kindergarten Instructional Guide

INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES

● 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 research severe weather that occurs in Utah and fnd out what they should do in case of severe weather occurring. For example, a huge snowstorm would cause a snow day so there would be online school.

Skill Building

Extension

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS

ELA

Wonders Anthology Read-a-Loud Unit 6 T.E. page 58 “Tiny and the Windy Day”

Wonders Read-Write Companion Read-a-Loud p. 38 Spring is Here

Wonders Leveled Reader “Bad Weather”

Strand 1 Weather Patterns K.1.2 Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information on the effect of forecasted weather patterns on human behavior. Examples could include how humans respond to local forecasts of typical and severe weather such as extreme heat, high winds, fash foods, thunderstorms, or snowstorms. (ESS3.B) Topic 4: Stem Project, Weather Changes integrates with the science standard listed below. Strand 1 Weather Patterns Standard K.1.1 Obtain, evaluate and communicate information about local, observable weather conditions to describe patterns over time. Emphasize the students’ collection and sharing of data. Examples of data could include sunny, cloudy, windy, rainy, cold, or warm. ESS2.D)

Math