Bear Exploration Center
Bear Exploration Center
Magnet Curriculum
Magnet Curriculum
2025-2026
2025-2026
Miss Randle's Kindergarten Class
STEAM Teaching and Learning
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Standards
Standards
Grade Level
Kindergarten
Content Area
ELA, Math, and Science
ELA
Standards:
K.COP.8d - Identify the beginning and end of a sentence by locating the capital letter and end punctuation.
K.C.23 - With prompting and support, manipulate words and/or phrases to create simple sentences, including declarative and interrogative, to help build syntactic awareness and comprehension at the sentence level.
K.W.33 - Express ideas orally and connect these ideas through drawing and emergent writing.
K.W.34 - Print legibly, using proper pencil grip
a. Print upper and lower case letters using proper approach strokes, letter formation, and line placement.
c. With prompting and support, use lower case letters in majority of written work, using capital letters only when appropriate.
Math
Standards:
MA.19.K.17 - Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common to see which object has 'more of' or 'less of' attribute and describe the difference.
Science
Standards:
SC.15.K.3 - Distinguish between living and nonliving things and verify what living things need to survive.
Objective: Students will explore pumpkins through hands-on observation, using their senses to examine their outside and inside parts of a pumpkin, learn about the pumpkin growth cycle, and engage in math and writing activities connected to their discoveries.
Directions: Students investigated pumpkins for the month of October. Students measured how many pumpkins tall we are, read and watched pumpkin facts videos, learned the life cycle of a pumpkin and all its parts, taste-tested different pumpkin items, worked in groups to investigate pumpkins on tables and finished with our STEM challenge: Will our 'Dinosaur Gourd' pumpkin sink or float? . We compared different variations of pumpkins in a circle and our, 'green pumpkin with a tail' peaked everyone's interest the most. First, we passed around our dinosaur gourd, which is a green pumpkin, right out of our school garden before casting indvidual predictions. Next, they were able to touch the external part of the pumpkin and lift and hold for an ideal weight of pumpkin.Then, the fun part, the TEST! Does our Dinosaur Gourd, green pumpkin float or sink in water? IT FLOATS. We discussed how many students voted for sink and how many voted for float, and which group's prediction were correct, we also discussed why our dinosaur gourd FLOATED due to the hollow insides.
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