PK-5 Resources

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The following list includes specific elementary examples from Community of Practice sessions. Additional resources for all grade levels are available on the general resources tab.

  1. Sound - creating musical instruments (see ppt)

  1. Page Keeley’s Formative Assessment Probes

NSTA is providing free sample probes on their website: Top Sellers: Uncovering Student Ideas in Science

  1. Engineering design with Chase the Dog (see full article at NSTA Elementary resources & sample PPT here)

  1. Ocearch: Ocearch.org

Have students follow a specific animal for a week and ask science questions. You can provide them with sentence starters like these:

  1. Bird feeders and bird watching in students’ home environment:

https://climatekids.nasa.gov/extreme-weather-birds/

https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/

https://nestwatch.org/

Community of Practice participants discussed using this as an extension to the Chase the Dog engineering design challenge.

  1. Build a tower. What shapes provide the strongest structure? (see sample PPT here)

  • Using a single piece of paper and 12 in of tape.

  • Use paper cups

  • Use paper towel roles

  1. Raritan Headwaters Learning Resources

https://www.raritanheadwaters.org/education/learningresources/?fbclid=IwAR3u1r6lOFvKus05AF4JeXqtqkSCawxanPgnDwwsy0vdIxp1ik6hb0bOD-A

  1. Science in the City

https://scienceinthecity.stanford.edu/

  1. Journey North: https://journeynorth.org/


For examples of sentence starters that can help frame students thinking about