Stimulus
Lead4ward Instructional Strategies
Kindergarten Science
Unit 2: Exploring Matter and Energy
Experiment or investigation
-balance scales
Mystery Peek
16 days
Concept anchor charts
-Texture words
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/14496030025875220/
-5 senses
Properties of matter
K. 1A Identify and demonstrate safe practices as described in the Texas Safety Standards
during classroom and outdoor investigations, including wearing safety goggles, washing
hands, and using materials appropriately.
K. 2D Record and organize data and observations using pictures, numbers, and words.
Recording
Guide
4 Corners
Journals
Verbal
Justifications
K.2E Communicate observations with others about simple descriptive investigations.
Diagram- 5 senses
Visual/Image
Illustration
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/26880928997
851291/
Informational Text
My 5 Senses by Aliki
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/18098847875
2583009/
Video clips
-brainpop jr.
-starfall.com (color and shape
sorting games)
Songs
5 senses song
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/487936940848583016/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0cWhN
PiZZI
K. 4A Collect information using tools, including computers, hand lenses, primary balances,
cups, bowls, magnets, collecting nets, and notebooks; timing devices, including clocks and
timers; nonstandard measuring items such as paper clips and
clothespins; weather instruments such as demonstration thermometers and wind socks;
and materials to support observations of habitats of organisms such as terrariums and
aquariums.
K. 4B Use senses as a tool of observation to identify properties and patterns of organisms,
objects, and events in the environment.
K. 5A Observe and record properties of objects, including relative size and mass, such as
bigger or smaller and heavier or lighter, shape, color, and texture.
Eyes, eyes What Do You See?
From old cscope lesson 2
You tube videos on 5 senses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUe1WC
B4GcA
color
Activity
# of Days
Notes
Anchor Chart
Mystery bag
1
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/285626801339208863/
Sneak Peek
1
Show an object to the class, hide it and
then have students describe it’s
properties (size, shape, color, texture)
Quick Write
(1 minute
paper, graffiti)
Texture book
1
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/53304330587935803
4/
Texture touch boxes
1
http://www.prekinders.com/texture-touch-boxes/
Texture hand
2
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/27760476450452457
0//
5 senses anchor chart
1
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/51516964485177734
0/
1
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/13102667038507932
1/
K. 5B Observe, record, and discuss how materials can be changed by heating or cooling.
Misconceptions:

Power Point
Vocabulary
Notes
3-2-1
Summary
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/19562517753
9801130/
5 senses
Evidence of
Learning


Students may think that mass, volume, weight (heaviness), size, and
density are the same property, rather than being different
properties.
Students associate the word “feel” with emotion instead of texture.
Students need help identifying proper words to use when
describing properties such as texture.
changes
freeze
property
shape
texture
heating
melt
mass
size
weight
cooling
temperature
property
Balloon texture activity
Think central Science Fusion
Teacher resources
Unit 3 Matter Unit 4 Energy
1
Raz kids science
Properties reader
1
file:///C:/Users/JAM/Downloads/propertiesk2_nf_book_low.pdf
Before/after heating
journal
1
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/260857003392894404/
More mass/ less mass
Balance scales
1
file:///C:/Users/JAM/Downloads/12_S00K0201A_More%
20Mass%20Less%20Mass.pdf
Change by heating
cards
1
file:///C:/Users/JAM/Downloads/12_S00K0204A_Change
s%20by%20Adding%20Heat%20Pictures.pdf
Change by cooling
cards
1
file:///C:/Users/JAM/Downloads/12_S00K0204B_Changes
%20by%20Cooling%20Pictures.pdf
https://wwwk6.thinkcentral.com/ePC/start.do;jsessionid=179786BC21EC9BA487B141AB68EE0831
Exit Ticket
Think alouds
Graphic
Organizers,
Thinking
Maps®, or
Foldables
KWL chart
Oral
responses
Thumbs
up/down
Grade Kindergarten Science- Unit 2
Unit 2 : Exploring Matter and Energy
Thinking:
Analyze,
Interpret
Apply
Cause, Effect
Compare
Classify,
Categorize
Create,
Develop
16 days
Pre-planned Questions
Look at __. Read __. What do you notice?
What does __ mean?
Do we have all the information?
What else do we need?
Now that we know __, what else could we find? How?
What strategy should we use?
What other items might be like the one we just looked at?
Why did this happen?
What would happen if this ____ was changed to __?
How are these alike?
How are they different?
Group all of the __ together.
Tell whether this is __ or __. Explain.
Write __.
Sketch/draw __.
Complete __.
Come up with __.
Draw
What else do you know?
Conclusions Based on __, what else must be true?
Evaluate
Generalize
Infer
Does this make sense? Why or why not?
Will this work?
Which is better? Why?
What do all of these have in common?
Develop a rule or definition.
Is it safe to say that all __ are __?
What are the exceptions to this rule?
Since we know __ and __, what else is probably true?
Make
In what way is this like __?
Connections Remind me why we did all this. What was the point?
Predict,
Estimate
What might happen next?
Take a guess.
Sequence/
Order
Complete the pattern.
What should we do first? Next? Last?
Summarize
What’s another way to say this?
Put this in your own words.