Little Kindergarten Science Thinkers {UNIT 6: Force and Motion}

$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 6: Force and Motion teaches your little learners all about animal groups. It contains lessons on these specific topics:

How things move
Pushes and Pulls
Force and Direction
Gravity
Simple Machines
Magnets

——————–WHAT’S INCLUDED?———————

COMPONENTS OF THE UNIT:

  • A complete Teacher Guide
  • 6 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 an Experiment
  • Science Stations
  • Whole group Activities
  • Vocabulary Cards
  • Craft
  • Student Workbook
  • Quick Checks
  • 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)

**PLEASE NOTE** This unit contains many hands-on investigations. In order to teach the lessons you will need the following materials: balloons, balls of different sizes, marbles, a pool noodle, wooden blocks, magnets, empty jars, nuts and bolts

 

OUTLINE OF UNIT 6:

Lesson 1: HOW THINGS MOVE
Lesson 2: PUSHES AND PULLS
Lesson 3: FORCE AND DIRECTION
Lesson 4: INVESTIGATION
Lesson 5: GRAVITY
Lesson 6: RAMP EXPERIMENT
Lesson 7: SIMPLE MACHINES
Lesson 8: SIMPLE MACHINE STATIONS
Lesson 9: SIMPLE MACHINE STATIONS
Lesson 10: USING MAGNETS TO MOVE
Lesson 11: REVIEW AND CRAFTIVITY
Lesson 12: UNIT ASSESSMENT