Kinder

Unit 3: How the world works

February 1st - April 9th

Voice: Students will plan their own invention to determine how it will help and who it may help. Learners will share out and celebrate each invention idea. After completion of the mapping idea chart, students will turn and talk to present what they have chosen as their idea. As we move along throughout the summative assessment, students will share out & celebrate what they have accomplished.

Choice: Students will be able to choose and make their own inventions using historical figures as guides. Students will analyze real-world problems and determine how their invention can help. Students have the choice of what materials they will use as they move along in their summative.

Ownership: Learners will present their invention and communicate how it helps others. Learners will apply knowledge of inventions over time, different forms of energy and technology to create their invention. After presenting, learners will be able to respond to questions, wondering, and likes. The audience will celebrate their classmates’ creativity.

Choose: Students will focus on a problem in the world around them.
Act: Students will solve a problem they notice in the world through a new invention.
Reflect: Did my invention make the world a better place?

Function: The understanding that everything has a purpose, a role, or way of behaving that can be investigated.
- Why do we name things?
- How do the pictures and the text work together?
- How is air being used around us?
- How do simple machines work?
Causation: The understanding that things do not just happen, that there are causal relationships at work, and that actions have consequences.
- Why is a block the best shape for building a tower?
- How can you make a shadow?
Change: The understanding that change is the process of movement from one state to another. It is universal and inevitable.
- How does the sky change from day to night?
- How have you changed since you were a baby?
- How does the story begin, develop, and end?

Reading: Timelines, nonfiction text about technology, historical figures, scientists.
Math: Comparing numbers, financial literacy (coins), ways to earn income, how a shape impacts the function of an object.
Science: Simple machines, Earth, Sun, Moon, Stars, forms of energy, heating, and cooling, planets.
Social Studies: Then and now, Timelines, Maps, Impacts of historical figures

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