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Kindergarten to Grade 2 Science Lesson Plans
- Insect Hunt - The student will be able to describe what an insect they find looks like and what it is doing.
- Introduction to Classifying - The student will be able to sort assorted items by at least three characteristics.
- Making a Food Pyramid - It is important that students begin to understand about healthy eating at a young age. This lesson will provide students with a tactile and visual way to remember the food pyramid.
- Shadows - The student will be able to track the change of a shadow by tracing the outline of it at three different times during the day.
- Using Our Senses - In this fun lesson, students use their senses of touch and smell to try to figure out what objects are hidden inside boxes. They can work together as a team to brainstorm descriptive words and record them on a worksheet. This will help build their vocabulary and might spark some debate over just what is in those boxes!
- All About Crickets - - Be able to label and identify main parts of a cricket. Know insects have 3 body parts: head, thorax, abdomen.
- Animal Group Review - Characteristics of animal groups that the children have been studying including reptiles, amphibians, and insects.
- Animal Kingdom Overview - Students will describe the differences between plants and animals.
- Animal Kingdom & Plant Kingdom - Sorting of kingdom members into the correct category. Some students will use a list of words, some will use pictures.
- Balloons and Static Electricity - Students explore static electricity to help them discover what lightning is, how and why it occurs.
- Blind as a Bat - Students will learn about the concept of echolocation during a week long unit on bats.
- Breaking Weather Report - The learner will be able to identify North, South, East, West, Hawaii, and Alaska and act out the part of six meteorologists in different parts of the U.S.
- Bug Puzzles - A bug puzzle with four pieces that students put together to show a picture of different bugs that they had learned about.
- Caterpillars and Butterflies - Students will learn what happens to a caterpillar later in life.
- Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs - This unit is designed to be used as a multidisciplinary supplement to a classroom unit on Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.
- Compound Words on the Menu - Students will be able to understand that a compound word is actually two separate words, put together to form a new, different word.
- Conserving Electricity - The student(s) will be able to: give practical examples of electricity being used in everyday life; give practical examples of how to save electricity.
- Core Environmental Factors - To introduce students to the basic properties of earth, air, water, fire.
- Diver in a Bottle/ Sinking Orange - Demonstrate the ability of trapped air to make object float and create a scuba diver which rises and sinks based on the amount of air trapped in a pen cap.
- Exploring Balances - The students need to understand how a balance works because it is an important part of learning to be a scientist.
- Features Of Mammals - Students will be able to understand that mammals have distinctive features which help us identify them.
- Fire Safety - Students will discover and comprehend the importance of fire safety and prevention.
- Forces - Observe and describe how the movement of an object can be changed (e.g., push/pull, fast/slow). Recognize objects that are balanced.
- Four Seasons - Students will have a firm understanding of the four seasons and how they relate to weather, calendar months, and holidays.
- Going Shopping! - Determine the value of a penny, nickel, dime, quarter and half-dollar Identify and count coins to $1.00.
- Grow A Word! - To observe a living plant in the classroom. To work collectively to ensure the growth of the planting.
- Health & Fitness - Understands relationship of nutrition and food nutrients to body composition and physical performance.
- Hook Lesson/ Farm Unit - The learner will orally state at least one thing they already know about the farm, farm animals or a farmer.
- How Does a Plant Grow? - Students will learn about seeds, plants, and the resources needed for a plant to grow. This activity will be introduced and then be revisited over a period of few weeks.
- How does water flow? - TSW predict which direction the water will flow.
- Into The Ocean - Explain that sometimes photographs of the creatures in the ocean help people understand how important it is to protect them.
- Introduction to Butterfly Unit - Investigate the needs of a variety of different animals: air, water, food, shelter and space.
- Jigsaw Plant Parts! - Learning plant parts and their functions.
- Ladybugs Vs. Guppies - The life cycles of ladybugs and guppies (how they compare and contrast).
- Learning About Plant Life - The components and growth cycle of various types of plants found in nature.
- LIFE CYCLE of a FROG - Students will be able to verbalize/explain the 4(four) stages of a frog's development.
- Mother's Day Science Project - To learn about how flowers grow and their needs.
- National Zoo Virtual Field Trip 1 - TLW identify basic needs of animals observed on live web cam TLW identify how an animal moves (hop,run, crawl, etc.)
- Plant life cycle - Be able to talk about and identify the plant life cycle. Plant their own seeds and have them grow.
- Seasons: Making a Graphic Organizer - Students will be able to explain the difference between the four seasons. Students will understand the concept and importance of a graphically organized web.
- Seeds Sprouting - Plants and how they grow.
- Skeletal System - Have the Kids label them selves so they know where the bones are in their body.
- Simply Seasons - We will cover what changes each season involves, the different weather patterns of each season, which months go to which season and the order in which the seasons occur.
- Sink or Float? - TLW predict whether an object will sink or float in the water, observe the object to see if it sinks or floats and classify the object accordingly.
- The 5 Components Of Soil - To show children that soil plays an important part in our everyday lives.
- THE BODY PARTS - Students will be taught a variety of vocabulary, including parts of the body.
- The Cardiovascular System - Basic understanding of the heart's role in the cardiovascular system including the right and left chambers.
- The Day and Night Sky - Students will be able to chart properties of the day and night sky and identify similarities and differences.
- We Are What We Eat - The students will sort foods according to where they belong on the food pyramid. The students will create a well balanced meal.
- What Makes You Grow - To help children to see the importance of eating healthy and getting exercise to help them grow stronger each day.
- Wind-Watchers - In groups, the students will create an Excel spreadsheet/chart that reflects daily weather conditions.
- Weather Elements - Identify types of clouds, precipitation, temperature, wind direction and wind speed.
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