Sciencekittemplate Kinder

The resources above are to be used as supplemental resources to the MNPS Science Kits. This list is not

extensive and should be used to meet the needs of the students.

Kindergarten Science Kits: Resources for Implementation and Enrichment

Unit: Animals 2 X 2

Books to explore

Web Resources Idea Sparkler(s)

Oh Say Can you Seed: All About Flowering Plants, Worth Mighty Animal Cells, Johnson Powerful Plant Cells, Johnson www.library.nashville.org numerous books available on different animals

www.pebblego.com

Life Sciences database has information on cells, living and nonliving things, plants, and animals

Animals www.limitlesslibraries.org

Access Tumble Books for animals and plants

http://www.quia.com/

Many games for animals, ecosystems, plants, etc.

Example: Matching animals to their names & matching parents to offspring

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/grade_level_help/life_science_parents_offspring_first_1st_grade_science.htm

Parent/Offspring www.brainpop.com Safari videos

Work together to list features of different kinds of animals. Observe changes from young to adult. A Tree Map or other thinking map could be used to organize information http://pinterest.com Pinterest has lots of ideas on how to use modeling clay, Play- Doh, cookies, or cakes to make models of animal cells and plant cells



Unit: Energy (Temperature and Motion)

Books to explore


Hello Sun, Dodds The Sun: Our Nearest Star, Branley The Sun Above and the Blooms Below: A Springtime of Opposites, Chernesky What is Temperature?, Johnson Ways Things Move, Nelson Move It!: Motion, forces, and You, Mason Many Ways to Move, Boothroyd Looking at Forces and Motion: How Do Things Move, Royston DVD: Sid the Science Kid: Sid in Motion

www.brainpop.com http://www.eyeonthesky.org/ourstarsun.html www.pebblego.com http://scienceforkids.kidipede.com/chemistry/atoms/heat.htm

Experiment to show the sun as a heat source and comparing the effects of the sun on temperatures: Use a shaded area and sunny area of the library/classroom and put one pan of water in each area. Put these out several hours before the lesson so students can compare the temperature of each pan (Best on a warm, sunny day) More info: http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons/the-warmth-of-the-sun/ http://bit.ly/1NEy3ng Bright Hub Education- force and motion lesson on having students roll balls back and forth to learn about force and motion



Unit: Living Things

Books to explore


Look, Listen, Taste, Touch, and Smell, Nettleton Are You Living? A Song About Living and Non-Living Things, Salas Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow?, Shea Kalman series Introducing Living Things (2007) -Plants are Living Things -Is it a Living Thing? -I am a Living Thing -Homes of Living Things -Animal Families -Living Things Need Water -Animals Grow and Change

www.brainpop.com http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.colt.lp_living/living-vs-nonliving/

Living vs Nonliving www.pebblego.com http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/tdc02.sci.life.colt.lp_stayalive/the-needs-of-living-things/

Needs of living things

GLE 0007.2.2 Know that people interact with their environment through their senses.

Website with ideas for 5 senses activities and a 5 senses festival as a culminating activity

http://littlegiraffes.com/fivesenses.html Lesson Idea: Explore the parts of different animals and what those parts do for the animals. This is important for understanding biological evolution because plants and animals are made up of parts, some of which may change over time. More info: http://sbs.wsu.edu/evolutionary/PS_K_partsofawhole.html



Unit: The Universe and the Atmosphere

Books to explore


If Frogs Made the Weather, Bauer Blue Sky, Wood Through Moon and Stars and Night Skies, Turner Watching the Night Sky (Big Book), Lunis Space Cowboy Caleb and the Night Sky Roundup, Dybvik Looking at the Sky Series by Kissock Cloudy Day/Sunny Day, Crews Kippers Book of Weather, Inkpen What Will the Weather Be Like Today?, Rogers

www.pebblego.com http://www.prekinders.com/weather-theme/

Lots of activities for different types of weather

http://www.kidsparkz.com/weather.html#.VRmDxE3QfIU www.limitlesslibraries.org

Access Tumble Books for weather

http://bit.ly/1P3azvJ Weather makes season- bright hub education

GLE 0007.8.1 Collect daily weather data at different times of the year. Students can keep a weather journal where they draw daily weather observations during certain weeks, months, or seasons of the year. Class thinking maps (circle map) for identifying weather words After reading books about the night sky, ask students to observe the sky at night so the class can create a night sky mural. With assistance, use story strips to create a story to go with the class mural for display in the library.



Unit: Wood

Books to explore


Wood, Llewellyn Curious George Plants a Tree, (Curious George New Adventure), Perez The Magic Bojabi Tree, Hofmeyr A Tree is Nice, Udry What Good is a Tree, Brimner In the Forest, Ets Forest Has a Song: Poems, Vanderwater Will It Sink or Float?, Stewart www.library.nashville.org search for nonfiction titles on trees

www.limitlesslibraries.org -Access Tumblebooks Nonfiction on trees -Access BookFlix Earth and Sky for a pairing of Forests and Red Riding Hood http://bit.ly/19MXshM Bright Hub Education Properties of Wood Project Learning Tree https://www.plt.org/ -good information and ideas for teaching students about trees and the environment

Students make comparisons about the different types of wood. (look, feel, names of the trees) Complete a Tree Map to list properties of the different types of wood. Complete simple research project on trees. Create a flip book using sentence starters and allow students time to illustrate or make a model of a tree.

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