Content Area: Beginning Skills and Processes

lessons

Be the Bird, Build a Nest!

In this lesson, children will read the book, Mama Built a Little Nest, by Jennifer Ward and use their own engineering skills with loose parts to create a nest to hold their egg.

Magnifying Magic

In this lesson, children will use magnifying glasses to explore the world around them.

Who’s Hiding?

In this lesson, children will analyze illustrations in the book, “Who’s Hiding?” to determine which animal is hiding. The children will use the partial data in a guessing/thinking format to figure out which animal is hiding.

Jumping Jacks

In this lesson, children will time themselves and chart their progress as they do sets of jumping jacks.

How Many Legos Tall?

In this lesson, the children will make predictions and use LEGO blocks to measure objects in their environment.

Run, Walk, Crawl

In this lesson, children will measure the time that it takes to move quickly versus moving slowly.

Float, Fly, Drive

In this lesson, children will sort, classify, count and compare different types of transportation.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

In this lesson, children will graph the different vehicles that they scoop out of a bucket and then analyze their collected data, creating rules for why a vehicle is similar or different than other vehicles.