Kindergarten Science Unit 6

Big Idea:

Energy, force, and motion are a part of everyday life.

Student Expectations:

Priority TEKS

K.6(B) Explore interactions between magnets and various materials.

Focus TEKS

K.6(A) Use the senses to explore different forms of energy such as light, thermal, and sound;

K.6 (C) Observe and describe the location of an object in relation to another such as above, below, behind, in front of and beside.

K.6 (D) Observe and describe the ways that objects can move such as in a straight line, zig zag, up and down, back and forth, round and round, and fast and slow.

Ongoing TEKS

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

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

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 ways I move.
• I will identify ways I can make an object move.
• I will identify ways objects at school move.
• I will identify ways objects at home move.
• I will identify items that are magnetic.
• I will describe what magnets are made of.
• I will identify the reasons some objects attract and repel and others do not.

Essential Questions:

• How are some ways we move and make objects move?
• How do different things move on the playground (like slide, swing, balls) and at home (like rocking chair, blender, drawers)?
• What types of items stick to magnets?
• What are magnets made of?
• Why do some objects attract and repel (stick together or push apart) and others do not?

Extra Information:

Adopted Textbook: ScienceFusion, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

District Grading Policy

Texas Gateway Online Resource Center