EARTH DAY SCIENCE ACTIVITIES AND LESSON PLANS FOR KINDERGARTEN

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Celebrate Earth Day with a full week of science based activities! These well thought out activities focus on various topics about Earth, and what makes it so unique.

Use the detailed lesson plans and suggested read alouds to help guide your instruction! The whole group activities are a great way to tie in literacy and science. Use the literacy and math centers during your small group teaching time.

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What’s Included:

Whole Group Lessons: This unit includes five days of whole group activities that build on each other. Start with learning about how to take care of our planet through recycling. Next, move to topics that make Earth so beautiful–landforms, water, rocks and soil.

Suggested Reading List: An amazing list of Earth Day themed picture books will help guide your instruction. Links to purchase books are included.

Thematic Reader: Spark a love for reading and enhance literacy skills with our thematic reader focused on Earth and the beautiful characteristics. Through simple sentences and illustrations, students will focus on fluency and word recognition skills.

Interactive Poem: Foster creativity and language development with our interactive poem centered around Earth. Students will participate in reciting and acting out the poem, reinforcing vocabulary related to our planet.

Math and Literacy Centers: Reinforce key math and literacy concepts with our engaging centers tailored to the theme of Earth Day. From addition practice to measurement and sight words to ending sounds, these centers provide hands-on learning experiences that support academic growth and development.

Benefits:

1. Comprehensive Learning Experience: The unit provides a well-rounded approach to science education, covering various aspects Earth, how we should take care of it and all the characteristics that make it beautiful and unique.

2. Promotion of Curiosity and Inquiry: By digging into the subject of Earth Day, the unit sparks curiosity and encourages inquiry-based learning. Students are motivated to ask questions, make observations, and seek answers, fostering a sense of wonder and exploration in the classroom.

3. Making Real World Connections: Through exposure to age-appropriate science content and vocabulary, students make real world connections from an early age.

LEARNING STANDARDS INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE

Common Core Standards

Language Arts

CCSSL.K.1a

Print many upper- and lowercase letters.

CCSSL.K.4

Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on kindergarten reading and content.

CCSSL.K.5c

Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).

CCSSRF.K.1c

Understand that words are separated by spaces in print.

CCSSRF.K.1d

Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

CCSSRF.K.2

Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes).

CCSSRF.K.3

Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.

CCSSRF.K.3c

Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).

CCSSRI.K.3

With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.

CCSSRI.K.7

With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).

CCSSRI.K.8

With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

CCSSW.K.2

Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.

Math

CCSSK.CC.A.2

Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).

CCSSK.CC.A.3

Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

CCSSK.CC.B.4

Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

CCSSK.CC.B.4a

When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

CCSSK.CC.B.4b

Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

Next Generation Science Standards

NGSSK-ESS3-3

Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment. Examples of human impact on the land could include cutting trees to produce paper and using resources to produce bottles. Examples of solutions could include reusing paper and recycling cans and bottles.

Texas Essential of Knowledge and Skills

Langauge Arts

TEKSLA.K.2.B.iv

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking–beginning reading and writing. The student expects to: demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by: identifying and reading at least 25 high-frequency words from a research-based list.

TEKSLA.K.2.C.iii

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking–beginning reading and writing. The student expects to: demonstrate and apply spelling knowledge by: spelling high-frequency words from a research-based list.

TEKSLA.K.2.D.v

Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking–beginning reading and writing. The student expects to: demonstrate print awareness by: identifying all uppercase and lowercase letters.

TEKSLA.K.5.B

Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student expects to: generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information with adult assistance.

TEKSLA.K.5.F

Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student expects to: make inferences and use evidence to support understanding with adult assistance.

TEKSLA.K.5.H

Comprehension skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student expects to: synthesize information to create new understanding with adult assistance.

TEKSLA.K.6.A

Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to: describe personal connections to a variety of sources.

TEKSLA.K.6.B

Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to: provide an oral, pictorial, or written response to a text.

Math

TEKSMA.K.2.A

Number and operations. The student applies mathematical process standards to understand how to represent and compare whole numbers, the relative position and magnitude of whole numbers, and relationships within the numeration system. The student is expected to: count forward and backward to at least 20 with and without objects.

TEKSMA.K.2.B

Number and operations. The student applies mathematical process standards to understand how to represent and compare whole numbers, the relative position and magnitude of whole numbers, and relationships within the numeration system. The student is expected to: read, write, and represent whole numbers from 0 to at least 20 with and without objects or pictures.

TEKSMA.K.2.C

Number and operations. The student applies mathematical process standards to understand how to represent and compare whole numbers, the relative position and magnitude of whole numbers, and relationships within the numeration system. The student expects to: count a set of objects up to at least 20 and demonstrate that the last number said tells the number of objects in the set regardless of their arrangement or order.

Science

TEKSSCI.K.3.A

Scientific investigation and reasoning. The student knows that information and critical thinking are used in scientific problem solving. The student expects to: identify and explain a problem such as the impact of littering and propose a solution.

TEKSSCI.K.5.A

Matter and energy. The student knows that objects have properties and patterns. The student expects to: observe and record properties of objects, including bigger or smaller, heavier or lighter, shape, color, and texture.

TEKSSCI.K.7.A

Earth and space. The student knows that the natural world includes earth materials. The student expects to: observe, describe, and sort rocks by size, shape, color, and texture.

TEKSSCI.K.7.C

Earth and space. The student knows that the natural world includes earth materials. The student expects to: give examples of ways rocks, soil, and water are useful.