Little Kindergarten Science Thinkers {UNIT 1: Our Senses}

$17.95

Little Science Thinkers is a complete science curriculum specifically for Kindergarten.  It’s everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your kinder friends.  It incorporates many state and NGSS standards. This curriculum was completely researched, designed, and created by Karen Jones.

UNIT 1: Our Senses is great for the beginning of the school year. It introduces students to science and teaches them how to think like a scientist using our five senses! It contains lessons on these specific topics:

What Science is
What a Scientist Does
Our Sense of Sight
Our Sense of Hearing
Our Sense of Touch
Our Sense of Taste
Our Sense of Smell
Using our Senses All Together

——————–WHAT’S INCLUDED?———————

COMPONENTS OF THE UNIT:

  • A complete Teacher Guide
  • 9 printable/projectable Books for Read-Alouds
  • Step-by-step, Scripted Lesson Plans (Eleven, 35-minute lesson plans in all)
  • Essential Question and Learning Target Posters
  • Anchor Charts
  • Investigations and Experiments
  • Science Stations
  • Whole group Activities
  • Vocabulary Cards
  • Craftivity
  • Student Workbook that follows each lesson
  • Quick Check for every lesson
  • Kinder-appropriate Assessment and Rubric for scoring
  • Parent Letter
  • A COMPLETE unit PowerPoint to guide your teaching during each and every lesson (all books, targets, activity and workbook pages are included in the PowerPoint to help you save paper)

 

OUTLINE OF UNIT 1:

Lesson 1: WHAT IS SCIENCE?
Lesson 2: WHAT DO SCIENTISTS DO?
Lesson 3: OUR SENSE OF HEARING
Lesson 4: OUR SENSE OF SMELL
Lesson 5: OUR SENSE OF TOUCH
Lesson 6: OUR SENSE OF TASTE
Lesson 7: OUR SENSE OF SIGHT
Lesson 8: USING OUR SENSES (SCIENCE STATIONS)
Lesson 9: SENSES CRAFTIVITY
Lesson 10: REVIEWING OUR SENSES
Lesson 11: UNIT ASSESSMENT