Kindergarten Science
9 units matched to the Minnesota K-12 Academic Standards.
Focus areas
- Living things and their needs, pushes and pulls, weather and the sun's warmth
- Science and engineering practices: observing, sorting and asking questions
- How science connects to people and communities in Minnesota and beyond
Units
Unit 1
What Living Things Need
Telling living from non-living things, and what plants and animals need to live: food, water, air, shelter and sunlight.
Benchmark: 0L.2.1.1.3; 0L.3.1.1.1 · describing what plants and animals, including people, need to survive
Unit 2
Materials
Describing everyday materials (soft or hard, rough or smooth, bendy or stiff), what sinks or floats, and naming what things are made of, like wood, metal, glass and cloth.
Benchmark: 0P.2.1.1.1 · sorting objects as natural or human-made, and by color, size, shape and texture
Unit 3
Push & Pull
Telling pushes from pulls, and seeing how a bigger push, an object's shape and its weight change how it moves.
Benchmark: 0P.2.2.1.1; 0P.4.1.1.1 · patterns in how pushes and pulls of different strengths and directions change motion
Unit 4
Weather & Seasons
Dressing for the weather, the four seasons in order, day and night, and how plants and animals change with the seasons.
Benchmark: 0E.2.1.1.2 · observing local weather each day and through the seasons, and describing the patterns
Unit 5
Care for Our Earth
Show how your family reuses and recycles. Spend time outside, and talk about taking only what you need and leaving nature as you found it.
Benchmark: 0E.1.1.1.2 · ways a person can use fewer natural resources
Unit 6
Sun & Shade
Practices noticing that sunlight warms the ground, water, sand and objects, and choosing ways to make shade to keep a place cooler.
Benchmark: 0P.1.2.1.1; 0P.3.2.2.1 · how sunlight warms Earth's surface, and building something to block it
Unit 7
Stormy Weather
Practices what weather forecasts are for and how families get ready for, and stay safe in, storms, wind, snow, heat and floods.
Benchmark: 0E.1.1.1.1 · using weather forecasts to get ready for severe weather
Unit 8
Where Animals Live
Practices matching plants and animals to places that meet their needs, and noticing how animals and people change their surroundings to get what they need.
Benchmark: 0L.1.2.1.2 · comparing the plants and animals that live in different habitats
Unit 9
Make It Work
Practices the first steps of engineering: noticing a problem to fix, seeing how an object's shape helps it do its job, and comparing two designs after a test.
Benchmark: 0P.4.1.1.1 · testing whether a design changes how fast or which way an object moves
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