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ESSENTIAL QUESTION: WHAT DO SCIENTISTS DO?
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WE ARE SCIENTISTS! PROJECT DESCRIPTION
WE ARE SCIENTISTS! PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This project introduces young learners to science. Students learn about what science is and what scientists do. Song, movement, art and hands-on activities are embedded throughout the unit and are aimed to get students excited about learning and how to think like Scientists, Technologists, Engineers, Artists and Mathematicians. Students learn to think critically about items or pictures and sort into categories. Students discover criteria that set apart living things from nonliving things. They take a close look at plants, animals and people and make claims about whether they are living or nonliving, then become singing scientists to create their final product. They write and perform a song about living and/or nonliving things.
UTK students are working towards the understanding of the following Performance Expectation in this unit:
NGSS Performance Expectation
NGSS Performance Expectation
K-LS1-1. Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. [Clarification Statement: Examples of patterns could include that animals need to take in food but plants do not; the different kinds of food needed by different types of animals; the requirement of plants to have light; and, that all living things need water.]
Written by: Theresa Punzalan
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