Wed, Apr 02, 2014 4:09 PM in Weather climate unit for kindergarten
Thank you both. This is very helpful.
Your thermometer, how is that colored in? Like is it drawn on a whiteboard so that it can easily be erased and recolored for each day? If not, how?
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Sun, Mar 30, 2014 8:05 PM in Weather climate unit for kindergarten
I'm designing a kindergarten unit on weather as part of my teaching credential work. I have some resources, but I wanted to know if anyone here has some lessons or activities they have actually done with a primary grade classroom, that they would be willing to share.
I'm specifically trying to design a unit that meets the following NGSS standard and performance expectation:
K-ESS2-1.
Use and sha...
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Fri, Feb 21, 2014 9:35 PM in Motivation
I think keeping students motivated is relatively easy when teaching science - that is, relative to teaching math or literacy. This is because you can often get them excited with some kind of live demonstration or hands-on activity, as opposed to math and literacy, which are usually much more symbolically oriented in schools. In other words, show them something or demonstrate something to get them ...
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