Kindergarten Instructional Guide

● Natural Resources ● Problem ● Solution ● Sketch

● Surroundings ● Respond

● Cause ● Effect

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 how to design an umbrella to keep themselves warm and dry during recess.

Skill Building

Extension

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS

ELA

Wonders Read-aLoud “A Farm Year”

Wonders Leveled Reader A Good Idea Wonders Leveled Reader A Noisy Night 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 8: Stem Project, Recycling

Math

Strand K.2 Living Things and Their Surroundings i ntegrates with the science standard listed below. Standard K.2.4 Design and communicate a solution to address the effects that living things (plants and animals, including humans) experience while trying to survive in their surroundings. Defne the problem by asking questions and gathering information, convey designs through sketches, drawings, or physical models, and