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Kindergarten Science Units

Unit Plan 13 (Grade K Science): What Living Things Need

Kindergarten life science unit explores patterns of what plants, animals, and humans need to survive using observations and simple data.

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Unit Plan 12 (Grade K Science): Building Shade Structures

Kindergarten engineering unit where students design and test shade structures, compare warming in sun and shade, collect data, and improve designs using evidence.

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Unit Plan 11 (Grade K Science): Shade & Heat

Kindergarten science unit compares sun and shade, observing temperature differences, collecting simple data, and explaining how sunlight affects surfaces.

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Unit Plan 10 (Grade K Science): Sunlight Warms the Earth

Kindergarten science unit where students observe sunlight warming surfaces, collect simple data, compare materials, and explain patterns using evidence.

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Unit Plan 9 (Grade K Science): Forces — Quarter Synthesis

Kindergarten synthesis unit explains pushes and pulls, strength and direction, and how engineers test motion designs using data to see what works.

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Unit Plan 8 (Grade K Science): Engineering Motion Tools

Kindergarten engineering unit where students design motion tools, test speed and direction, collect data, compare solutions, and improve designs.

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Unit Plan 7 (Grade K Science): Sports & Motion

Kindergarten unit links pushes and pulls to sports, testing strength and direction, collecting data, and deciding if simple motion designs work as intended.

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Unit Plan 6 (Grade K Science): Testing a Motion Design

Kindergarten engineering unit where students test motion tools, collect data on speed or direction, decide if designs work, and improve solutions.

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Unit Plan 5 (Grade K Science): Ramps & Rolling

Kindergarten science unit explores ramps, testing how height and steepness change rolling speed and distance through fair tests, data, and hands-on investigation.

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Unit Plan 4 (Grade K Science): Direction of Motion

Kindergarten unit where students test push and pull directions, use arrows and data, and explain how changing direction affects motion hands-on.

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Unit Plan 3 (Grade K Science): Strength of Pushes

Kindergarten science unit where students investigate gentle vs strong pushes, test direction changes, and use fair tests and evidence to explain motion patterns.

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Unit Plan 2 (Grade K Science): Pushes & Pulls

Kindergarten unit explores pushes and pulls, comparing strength and direction to show how forces change motion through hands-on investigations.

Kindergarten Science Units

Unit Plan 1 (Grade K Science): Science Routines & Exploration

Kindergarten science unit builds safety, observation, and tool-use routines as students ask questions, gather evidence, and define simple problems to solve.

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3-5 Lesson Plans

Lesson Plan (Grades 3-5): Interactive Story Mapping - Plotting Narratives in Space

Grades 3–5 lesson where students map story events across space, write concise summaries, and use spatial reasoning to deepen comprehension and geometry skills.

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Grade 1 Science Units

Unit Plan 36 (Grade 1 Science): Cumulative Synthesis & Exhibition

Grade 1 science showcase unit where students present models and evidence explaining sound, light, life science, sky patterns, and engineering designs.

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Grade 1 Science Units

Unit Plan 35 (Grade 1 Science): STEM Capstone — Light, Traits & Seasons

Grade 1 science capstone unit where students combine light, sound, traits, and sky patterns into models that show how patterns help predict nature.

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Unit Plan 34 (Grade 1 Science): Patterns in Light, Sound & Motion

Grade 1 science unit uses sound, light, and sky investigations to identify patterns, gather evidence, and make predictions about what happens and why.

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Unit Plan 33 (Grade 1 Science): Living Things in Different Places

Grade 1 science unit explores habitats and survival, comparing traits of parents and offspring and designing nature-inspired solutions using evidence.

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Unit Plan 32 (Grade 1 Science): Traits & Offspring Review

Grade 1 science unit where students use observations and evidence to compare traits, showing how young plants and animals are like, but not exactly like, parents.

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Unit Plan 31 (Grade 1 Science): Communication with Light & Sound

Grade 1 science unit where students design, test, and improve light or sound communication devices, using data to compare designs and revise solutions.

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Unit Plan 30 (Grade 1 Science): Structures for Protection

Grade 1 science unit where students explore animal protection structures like camouflage, shells, and spikes, then design a nature-inspired solution to protect objects.

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Unit Plan 29 (Grade 1 Science): Observing Traits Across Seasons

Grade 1 science unit exploring how plants and animals change across seasons, connecting traits and behaviors to daylight patterns through observation and evidence.

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Unit Plan 28 (Grade 1 Science): Light & Plant/Animal Needs

Grade 1 science unit linking light and seeing to plant and animal needs, with a biomimicry design challenge inspired by external parts.

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Unit Plan 27 (Grade 1 Science): Sky Patterns — Quarter Synthesis

Grade 1 science unit where students use tools and evidence to predict sky patterns and daylight changes through observation, modeling, and data analysis.

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Unit Plan 26 (Grade 1 Science): Engineering Tools for Observing Sky

Grade 1 science unit where students design and test simple tools to track sun and shadow patterns, collect data, and use evidence to predict sky changes.