Little Kindergarten Science Thinkers {UNIT 2: Seasons and Weather}
$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 2: Seasons & Weather introduces students to the sun, different types of weather, and our seasons. It contains lessons on these specific topics:
What weather is
Types of weather we experience
What the sun is
How the sun affects Earth
How we can observe and measure weather
How weather affects our lives
Severe weather
Severe weather safety
The seasons
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COMPONENTS OF THE UNIT:
- A complete Teacher Guide
- 8 printable/projectable Books for Read-Alouds
- Step-by-step, Scripted Lesson Plans (Twelve, 30-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) The PowerPoint is also included as individual lessons for uploading to Google Slides.
OUTLINE OF UNIT 2:
Lesson 1: WHAT IS WEATHER?
Lesson 2: TYPES OF WEATHER
Lesson 3: THE SUN
Lesson 4: THE SUN AND SHADE – NGSS EXPERIMENT
Lesson 5: OBSERVING WEATHER
Lesson 6: HOW WEATHER AFFECTS US
Lesson 7: SEVERE WEATHER & SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY
Lesson 8: THE SEASONS
Lesson 9: THE SEASONS CRAFTIVITY
Lesson 10: SEASONS & WEATHER SCIENCE STATIONS (2 DAYS)
Lesson 11: REVIEWING SEASONS AND WEATHER
Lesson 12: UNIT ASSESSMENT
