Standard Course of Study :: Science — Kindergarten

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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.

Five senses of the rain forest: In this lesson, students use their five senses to observe rain forests and determine what it might be like to visit a rain forest. Students will better understand rain forests and their importance, as well as record observations in a bubble map.; Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts and Science); By Natalie Hudson.

Five days, five senses: In this lesson, students will learn about the five senses through observations and hands-on activities.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Science); By Nancy Ziegler.

Exploring 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: In this Science NetLinks lesson, 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

Sampling rocks: The purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is for students to learn about sampling through an investigation of rocks found in the schoolyard. In grades K-2, learning can begin that will eventually lead to students' having a good grasp of everyday statistics.... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Science); Provided by: Science Netlinks

Ready, set, let's dough! It's a matter of system: In this lesson, students will look at a complex system when they create their own play dough by taking several parts and creating a whole. Through their constructions, students will gain an understanding that individual parts are used to make a whole. (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

Look at those leaves!: This Science NetLinks lesson begins with students observing leaves in a hands-on activity. As they observe attributes, they will group the leaves and consider any patterns they see emerge. In the second part of this lesson, students will become more familiar... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade K Science); Provided by: Science Netlinks

It counts: This is a Science NetLinks lesson designed to help students understand and reinforce how numbers are assigned to objects, as well as think about more, less, or equal values. In this lesson, students are asked to describe, compare, and classify plants. Because... (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 1–2 Mathematics and Science); Provided by: Science Netlinks

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