Topics: Assemble/Reassemble, New Objects Made From Existing Objects
Individual or groups of two
video: Counting 1-10 songs
Give each group 10 LEGO DUPLO blocks to construct a structure. What could the structure represent in the real world? Students should attempt to build a second structure using the same 10 blocks. Is there only one way to assemble the blocks?
2. Topics: Humans 5 Senses, Sensory Organs and Scientific Findings
Individual
video “The Five Senses|The Dr. Binocs Show”
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUMiPK6LZBI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTMeZ8MvlnA hi-5 5 senses dance and song
Touch Test Mystery Box (cut holes in a cardboard box, cover with cloth, put in objects with different feel), smell test tissues
Cut out and Glue a sense to its matching picture
3. Topic: LEGO Letters
Individual
video: ABC
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQr-UEHSMos with words and pictures
dance: https://youtu.be/6AXyl5A0PP4
4. Topics: Weather and Seasonal Patterns
Individual
video: Seasons
brainpopjr: Temperature Seasons
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-eBDAhB9VI
web: weather skycams
Temperature exercise
get ice, thermometers, watch temperature drop, remove, watch temperature rise
art: Crayola 4 seasons
use sun/moon/earth model
ask students which season they like the best and why
5. Topic: Wind Energy
Individual
brainpop: Wind
video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s7zOubwXmc
video: fun facts
crank flashlight, have kids turn the crank to generate light, relate to wind power generation
solar cell and light or motor
6. Topics: Analyze Weather Data and Describing Patterns
Groups of two
brainpopjr: Water Cycle
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncORPosDrjI
weather: https://youtu.be/Uo8lbeVVb4M
video: Chattanooga Forecast or equivalent
play weather BINGO or BINGO with pennies
Have students record weather for a week, or longer
Ask students to describe weather experiences
8. Topic: Coins
Groups of two
brainpopjr: Dollars and Cents
song: Counting Coins
Review and pass around different coins, have kids arrange low to high
Pass out matching cards and go counting up for addition
9. Topic: DUPLO Train Math
Individual
video: Addition 1 to 9
Give the kids math problems, place numbers 1 to 10 at intervals along track.Kids must place train tile to stop at the right answer.
This train set has myriad uses. It comes with sound tiles and stop and reverse tiles.Great for solving problems visually and tactically.
Also great for building dioramas that kids can create stories around.
I also bought sets of DUPLO animals and people and more blocks.
10. Topic: Living and Nonliving
Groups of two
video: Living and Nonliving
song: Living&NonlivingThings
Book: What’s Alive
Discuss what is living and nonliving. Lead students to understand that living things have basic needs, but nonliving things do not. Living things are made of cells, require energy (food), require water, require air, respond to their environment (often includes movement), and grow and reproduce. Allow students to generate a few examples.
art: Animal spots and stripes
Take students on a scavenger hunt. Blank spaces are for personal explorations. After the scavenger hunt is done, have a class discussion over the basic needs and characteristics of the items found.
11. Topic: Similarities and Differences in Animals
Groups of two
Brainpopjr: Classifying Animals or https://www.generationgenius.com/videolessons/classification-of-living-things-video-for-kids
video: Tail Like This
Pass out animal structure cards to groups, ask them to describe
Cut out and match the picture to the classification
Use the first five pages to have the kids make their own zoo
then ask the kids to describe their zoo to the class
poster for class
12. Topic: Parents and their Children
Individual
Video: Animal parents
Cut out pictures, mix them up, hand one to each child. Kids have to go around the room to find their baby.
Have kids do tally marks on the board or screen for hair color, eye color, turn tongue upside down, ear lobe connected or not
14. Topic: Plants
Individual or groups of two
video: Plants Can’t Sit Still
brainpopjr: plant life cycle or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFRvDTwGDMo
Have kids build a paper plate flower.
Have kids bring a flower from home or find one at recess to discuss the parts.
Have kids plant a couple of classroom flowers and watch them grow.
15. Topics: Biomes and Habitats
Groups of two
video: Biomes
video: Habitats
song: It’s Our Planet
activity: 20 wild ways to explore habitats
I bought jigsaw puzzles for this activity.
16. Topic: Turtles
Individual
video: One Tiny Turtle
song; Turtles
17. Topic: Human Impact
Group
brainpopjr: Reuse Recycle or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jQ7y_qQYUA
song: 3Rs
Discuss with the kids where they have seen trash.
Go outside the school with the class to pick up trash.
18. Topic: How can we help the Environment?
Groups of two
video: Pollution
video: Freddy the Fish
Have the kids make and test water filters. Use measuring cups with units.
19. Topic: Transportation
Groups of two or three
brainpopjr: Transportation
video: Invention of trains
video: Tennessee Valley or equivalent
build DUPLO train tracks and towns, tell stories
20. Topic: Rockets
Individual
art: Crayola moon rocket
21. Topic: Properties and States of Matter, Solids and Liquids and Gases
Individual
brainpopjr: Changing States of Matter or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wclY8F-UoTE
song: States of Matter
6 Mystery Balloons
water soap beans marbles air helium
get a helium balloon at store
22. Topic: Hot and Cold
Groups of two
Snowmen All Year by Caralyn Buehner
song: Matter Chatter
video: Ice Cream Melting only 30s
time ice melting in kid's hand, rubbing in hands, sitting on a tray
discuss results
23. Topic: Magnets
Individual or groups of two
24. Topic: Weights and Lengths
Groups of two
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