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 different kinds of wheels and how they make an object move (for example super thin wheels on a car, square wheels on a cart, etc.)

Skill Building

Extension

INTERDISCIPLINARY CONNECTIONS

ELA

Wonders TE pg T110: “Baby Animals on the Move”

Wonders Leveled Reader “We Can Move”

Strand K.3: Force, Motion & Interactions Standard K.3.1 Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of forces on the motion of an object. Emphasize forces as a push and pull on an object. The idea of strength should be kept separate from the idea of direction. Non-contact forces, such as magnets and static electricity, will be taught in Grades 3 through 5. (PS2.A, PS2.B, PS2.C, PS3.C) Topic 12: Stem Project, Pushing and Pulling Shapes i ntegrates with the science standard listed below. Strand K.3: Force, Motion & Interactions Standard K.3.1 Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of forces on the motion of an object. Emphasize forces as a push and pull on an object. The idea of strength should be kept separate from the idea of direction. Non-contact forces, such as magnets and static electricity, will be taught in Grades 3 through 5. (PS2.A, PS2.B, PS2.C, PS3.C)

Math