Kindergarten Science and Social Studies
Fall Semester | ||
Unit Title | My Community and Me | Properties and Patterns Around Us |
Time | 7 Weeks | 10 Weeks |
Understandings | Students will describe reasons rules are important and identify rules at home and in school, such as being safe, being kind, and being respectful.
Students will identify authority figures, such as parents in the home, principals at school, and police officers in the community and will describe how authority figures enforce rules by implementing consequences and promoting positive behavior.
Students will use a variety of voting methods to make classroom decisions.
Students will compare the position of objects and places in school using spatial terms and use a map to locate places at school, such as the library, cafeteria and nurse’s office.
Students will gather information about themselves and discuss their similarities and differences with classmates. | Students will explore a variety of objects and use drawings, labels, and spoken words to describe their physical properties.
Students will identify patterns in objects to classify them into groups based on one or more physical properties.
Students will go outside and use pictures/videos to observe the sky, then record observations and descriptions in their notebooks.
Students will observe the sky at different times of the day to identify patterns and make predictions.
Students will observe and identify weather, what the outside air feels like and looks like, as a physical characteristic of a place and use pictures and videos to observe and describe weather changes, such as temperature and precipitation, over the four seasons.
Students will see, hear, and feel wind in order to describe it as air that is present and moving all around us.
Students will identify landforms, such as mountains, hills, valleys, and plains, as well as bodies of water, such as oceans, lakes, rivers, and ponds, as physical characteristics of a place.
Students will describe rocks and identify similarities to classify them into groups based on one or more physical properties. |
TEKS | Science
Social Studies K.7A, K.7B, K.8A, K.8B, K.9C, K.3A, K.3C, K.3B | Science K.6, K.9B, K.9A, K.10B, K.10C, K.10A
Social Studies K.4A, K.3C |
Skills TEKS | Science
Social Studies K.14D, K.15A, K.15B, K.13A, K.13B, K.14C, K.14E, K.15C, K.13C, | Science K.5C, K.5A, K.1D, K.1E, K.1F, K.3C, K.1A, K.1C, K.2B, K.3B, K.5B, K.3A, K.1B, K.1G, K.2D, K.4A, K.5D
Social Studies K.14C, K.13C |
Spring Semester | |||
Unit Title | Bright Ideas and Magnetic Marvels | From Needs to Seeds: Living and Growing | From Our Family to Yours |
Time | 6 Weeks | 10 Weeks | 4 Weeks |
Understandings | Students will identify examples of technology at home and school that help us learn, have fun and survive.
Students will observe an object in a room with light and a room without light to explore that objects can only be seen when a light source is present.
Students will use different types of light, such as bright, dim, colored, natural, or artificial, to observe and compare the appearance of different objects.
Students will use a variety of materials to demonstrate and explain how light interacts with different objects, including traveling through materials or being blocked to form shadows.
Students will predict how magnets interact with different materials, then explore and describe how magnets may cause changes through the forces of push and pull.
Students will complete a variety of tasks without the use of modern technology to experience and describe how life might be different without it. | Students will explain the difference between what we need to live, like food, clothing, and shelter, and what we would like to have.
Students will explain that people have jobs to earn money for their needs and wants or to help others and identify a variety of jobs in the home, school and community and describe examples of technology that help people accomplish their jobs.
Students will identify how people use natural resources, including rocks, soil, and water to meet their basic needs and wants.
Students will use books and digital resources to explore a variety of geographic locations to compare different ways people meet their basic needs and wants.
Students will observe animals in their natural environments by going outside and using digital media to identify the resources animals depend on to meet their basic needs.
Students will observe animals outside, in books, and through other digital resources to identify structures that animals use in their environment to see, hear, move, and grasp.
Students will conduct a descriptive investigation to identify the dependence of plants on air, sunlight, water, nutrients and space.
Students will explore real plants to identify their structures, such as roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits and observe a plant life cycle by planting a variety of seeds, recording the changes they observe over time, and comparing the young plants to the parent plants. | Students will describe how people’s food and activities are affected by their families and where they live.
Students will gather information and artifacts related to their own family traditions, including holidays, clothing, food, music and more.
Students will use drawings to compare their own family traditions to those of their classmates and communicate that family traditions are important because they bring people together. |
TEKS | Science K.8A, K.8B, K.7A,
Social Studies K.12A, K.12C | Science K.12B, K.13B, K.12A, K.13A, K.13C, K.13D
Social Studies K.5B, K.5A, K.5C, K.6A, K.6B, K.12B, K.4B, K.11 | Science
Social Studies K.4B, K.11B, K.11A, |
Skills TEKS | Science K.4A, K.1A, K.1B, K.1D, K.1E, K.1F, K.3B, K.3C, K.4A, K.1G, K.2D, K.4B K.5B, K.5E
Social Studies K.13C, K.14C, K.14B, | Science K.1C, K.1E, K.1F, K.4A, K.1A, K.1B, K.1G, K.2A, K.5F, K.5G, K.5D, K.5A, K.1D, K.4B, K.2C, K.3B, K.3C
Social Studies K.13C, K.13D, K.14C, K.13A | Science
Social Studies K.13C, K.14C |