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Science — Kindergarten
Goal 3, Objective 3.03
Resources aligned to this objective
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- Sensing the world around us
- Students will review the five senses and listen to an Ezra Jack Keats' story in which a blind man uses his senses of hearing and smelling to learn about his neighbors. Students will then experience the difficulty of using only one sense to identify different sounds.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
- By Libby Oxenfeld.
- Persuasive pumpkins
- Using observation skills and comparative language, the children will express their own ideas to compare likenesses and differences of pumpkins. They will sort by their own rules and explain their reasoning. Using cooperative learning, they will listen to other children's discussions and come to some agreements.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
- By RC Griffin.
- Mud feels good!
- Students will listen to Mud Walk by Joy Cowley. Students will experience and describe mud using a bubble map to record their responses. Students will create a class book using chocolate pudding to imitate mud.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science)
- By Amanda Mcalpine, Carol Elliott, and Ginny Devine.
- Fun with fruits and vegetables
- The activities will help the student identify, describe, and classify fruits and vegetables, and learn how each grows.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Healthful Living, Mathematics, and Science)
- By Suzie Overholt.
- The five senses
- The children will learn in this study the five senses through observations and experiments.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
- By Nancy Ziegler.
- The five senses
- This lesson will help students describe how objects look, feel, taste, smell, and sound using all senses.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
- By Kathy Gravitt.
- Air is all around us
- Air is everywhere. It cannot be seen, but it is all around us. This lesson helps students discover that air is everywhere.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
- By Jan Wuertz.
Resources on the web
- Wonderful waves
- Students create a wave model using two different types of simple models. The purpose of this lesson is to demonstrate that simple models can be used to represent real world objects that are not easily brought into a classroom. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Science)
- Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Ready, set, let's dough! It's a matter of system
- Students explore the connection of parts to a whole as they build objects out of play dough. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Science)
- Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- My senses tell me
- Students learn about their five senses. Using student sheets to record their observations, students work in small groups at five “Sense Stations,” where they document what they smell, taste, see, etc. Through group discussion, students then are... (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
- Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Magnify It!
- Students view objects of various sizes from several viewing distances to discover that their visual field is limited. Students record what they see and compare their observations with classmates in an open, nonjudgmental forum. (Learn more)
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Science)
- Provided by: American Association for the Advancement of Science
