Kindergarten Science Unit 11

Big Idea:

Plants and Insects have basic needs and depend on things around them to survive.

Student Expectations:

Priority TEKS

K.10(B) identify basic parts of plants and animals

K.10(D) Observe changes that are part of a simple life cycle of a plant: seed, seedling, plant, flower, and fruit

Focus TEKS

K.9(A) Differentiate between living and nonliving things based upon whether they have basic needs and produce offspring.

K.9(B) Examine evidence that living organisms have basic needs such as food, water, and shelter for animals and air, water, nutrients, sunlight, and space for plants.

K.10(A) Sort plants and animals into groups based on physical characteristics such as color, size, body covering, or leaf shape.

K.10(C) Identify ways that young plants resemble their parent plant.

Ongoing TEKS

K.2(B) plan and conduct simple descriptive investigations

K.2(C) Collect data and make observations using simple tools

K.2(D) Record and organize data and observations using pictures, numbers, and words

K.2(E) communicate observations about simple descriptive investigations

K.3(B) make predictions based on observable patterns in nature

K.4(A) collect information using tools, including computing devices, hand lenses, primary balances, cups, bowls, magnets, collecting nets, and notebooks; timing devices; non-standard measuring items; weather instruments such as demonstration thermometers; and materials to support observations of habitats of organisms such as terrariums and aquariums

Student Learning Targets:

• I will identify living and nonliving things.
• I will identify a basic need of an animal.
• I will identify a basic need of a plant.
• I will identify parts of a plant.
• I will identify ways that young plants resemble their parent plant.
• I will observe changes that are part of a life cycle.

Essential Questions:

• What are the life cycle stages of a plant?
• What does a plant need to go through the life cycle stages?
• When does the life cycle end?
• How does a plant change as it grows?

Extra Information:

Adopted Textbook: ScienceFusion, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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