NGSS Crosscutting Concepts. 2 – Cause and Effect. 3-5. Cause and effect relationships are routinely identified, tested, and used to explain change.
Have students first predict what will happen, and then play a round and observe the results.
NGSS Crosscutting Concepts. 2 – Cause and Effect. 3-5. Cause and effect relationships are routinely identified, tested, and used to explain change.
Which kind of sandpaper do you think will make the wood the smoothest?
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices. 8 – Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information. K-2. Communicate information or design ideas and/or solutions with others in oral and/or written forms using models, drawings, writing, or numbers that provide detail about scientific ideas, practices, and/or design ideas.
Encourage the children to compare the drawings in the field guides with the pressed leaves.
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices. 4 – Planning and Carrying Out Investigations. K-2. Use observations (firsthand or from media) to describe patterns and/or relationships in the natural and/or designed world in order to answer scientific questions.
Compare the twigs on the Discovery Table with the trees and shrubs outside
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices. 4 – Planning and Carrying Out Investigations. K-2. Use observations (firsthand or from media) to describe patterns and/or relationships in the natural and/or designed world in order to answer scientific questions.
Talk about the patterns that appear. Ask: How are the patterns different? How are the patterns the same?
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices. 4 – Planning and Carrying Out Investigations. K-2. Use observations (firsthand or from media) to describe patterns and/or relationships in the natural and/or designed world in order to answer scientific questions.
Encourage the children to sort the items into the boxes.
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices. 4 – Planning and Carrying Out Investigations. K-2. Use observations (firsthand or from media) to describe patterns and/or relationships in the natural and/or designed world in order to answer scientific questions.
Create tree models using hands and fingers.
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices. 2 – Developing and Using Models. K-2. Modeling in K-2 builds on prior knowledge and processes to include using and developing models.
invite the children to turn the outlines of themselves into trees
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices. 2 -Developing and Using Models. K-2. Modeling in K-2 builds on prior knowledge and processes to include using and developing models.
understanding of the changes in the tree and in weather over time.
NGSS Performance Expectation. K-ESS2-1 – Earth’s Systems. Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
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