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Unit Plan 25 (PreK Science): Weather Safety & Preparation

PreK weather safety unit teaching children to prepare for storms, hot and cold days using routines, tools, role-play, and simple safety plans.

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Parent Tips: Taming Tech Trouble - Phones, Gaming, and Off-Task Screens

Stop screen battles with a shared school–home tech plan. Set clear non-negotiables, a reteach→consequence ladder, and paper-first backups to rebuild focus.

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Unit Plan 24 (PreK Science): People & the Environment

PreK science unit exploring how people help or harm the environment through everyday actions, building Earth Helper habits like cleaning up, saving water, and caring for shared spaces.

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Unit Plan 23 (PreK Science): Environmental Changes

PreK science unit exploring environmental changes, helping vs. harming actions, observing local places, and caring for the environment through simple investigations.

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Unit Plan 22 (PreK Science): Land, Water & Sky

PreK science unit exploring land, water, and sky through observation, sorting, and models to identify rocks, puddles, sun, moon, and habitats.

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Unit Plan 21 (PreK Science): Seasons Around Us

PreK science unit exploring seasonal patterns by observing weather, plants, colors, daylight, and activities across fall, winter, spring, and summer through charts, sorting, and inquiry-based routines.

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Unit Plan 20 (PreK Science): Weather Tools & Clothes

PreK weather unit where children match daily weather to clothing and tools like coats, boots, and umbrellas, explaining choices using simple observations.

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Unit Plan 19 (PreK Science): Weather of the Day

PreK weather unit where children observe daily weather, chart sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy, and windy days, and notice simple patterns over time.

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Unit Plan 18 (PreK Science): Sun & Living Things — Quarter Synthesis

PreK science synthesis unit where children explore sunlight and shade, living things’ needs, and growth using drawings, models, and simple investigations.

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Unit Plan 17 (PreK Science): Where Animals Live

PreK science unit where children match animals to land and water habitats, identify homes, and explain how food, water, and shelter meet animal needs.

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Unit Plan 16 (PreK Science): How Plants & Animals Grow

PreK life science unit where children observe how plants and animals grow and change over time using repeated observations, evidence, models, and pictures.

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Unit Plan 15 (PreK Science): Plant Needs — Water & Light

PreK life science unit where children grow seeds with and without water and light to observe plant needs, compare growth, and explain changes over time.

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Unit Plan 14 (PreK Science): Animal Needs & Behaviors

PreK life science unit where children observe how animals move, eat, and use shelters to meet needs and survive through hands-on inquiry and modeling.

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Unit Plan 13 (PreK Science): What Living Things Need

PreK life science unit where children explore the basic needs of living things—food, water, air, light, and shelter—through observation and modeling.

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Unit Plan 12 (PreK Science): Build a Shade Shelter

PreK engineering unit where children design, build, test, and improve shade shelters to block sunlight and help toys or plants stay cooler.

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Unit Plan 11 (PreK Science): Making Shade

PreK science unit where children design and test shade to block sunlight, compare sun vs. shade, and explore how shade helps keep spaces cooler.

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Unit Plan 10 (PreK Science): Sunlight Warms Things

PreK science unit where children explore how sunlight warms surfaces by comparing sun and shade to observe warm and cool temperatures through safe investigations.

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Unit Plan 9 (PreK Science): Motion — Quarter Synthesis

PreK science unit where children retell and show how toys move using pushes, pulls, strength, and direction, then share motion models and evidence.

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Unit Plan 8 (PreK Science): Motion Engineering – Build a Ramp

PreK engineering unit where children design, test, and improve ramps to help objects move farther or faster using simple data, fair tests, and hands-on exploration.

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Unit Plan 7 (PreK Science): Direction of Motion

PreK science unit where children explore how pushing from different sides changes direction—straight, turn, or spin—and how push strength affects motion.

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Unit Plan 6 (PreK Science): Ramps Exploration

PreK science unit where children test ramp height, surfaces, and gentle vs. strong pushes to compare motion speed and distance through hands-on investigation.

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Unit Plan 5 (PreK Science): Rolling & Sliding

PreK science unit where children explore how shape affects motion by comparing rolling balls and sliding blocks on ramps and surfaces to observe speed and distance.

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Unit Plan 4 (PreK Science): Strength of Pushes

PreK science unit comparing gentle and strong pushes as children observe changes in speed, distance, and motion through hands-on ramps, play, and simple data recording.

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Unit Plan 3 (PreK Science): Pulls Make Things Move

PreK science unit exploring pulls as children use strings and tools to move objects, compare surfaces and weights, practice safe motion, and describe observations through play.

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Unit Plan 2 (PreK Science): Pushes Make Things Move

PreK science unit exploring pushes and pulls as children investigate motion, speed, direction, distance, and surfaces through hands-on play, ramps, and simple observation-based demonstrations.