Kindergarten STEM
Yearly Plan | ||||
| Unit Title | STEM Fluency | Career Explorations: Health Science & Nutrition | Digital Citizenship | Keyboarding |
| Time | 3-5 days | 1-3 days | 1-2 days | 1 day |
| Understandings | Students understand how to utilize the engineering design process to independently brainstorm designs. Students understand how to speak clearly to communicate ideas in a friendly, accepting manner. Students understand how to use background knowledge and generate a familiar idea and follow directions during the design process to solve an authentic problem. Students understand when and how to ask for help. Students understand how to identify which resources are available and needed to complete a project. | Students understand what types of jobs health science professionals have.
Students understand what certain health science professionals do.
Students understand tools that a health science professional may use.
Students understand how a health science professional can help the community. | Students understand responsible behavior within a digital environment.
Students understand that all digital content has owners.
Students understand how to demonstrate acceptable use of digital resources and devices as shown in the acceptable use policy (AUP).
Students understand ways to keep a user account safe, including not sharing login information and logging off accounts and devices.
Students understand what information is safe to share online such as hobbies and what information is unsafe such as identifying information. | Students understand correct keyboarding techniques while locating keys on the keyboard, including letters, numbers, the spacebar and backspace keys. |
| Technology Applications TEKS | TK.5, TK.6A, TK.7A, TK.7B | TK.8D, TK.8E | ||
| Science TEKS (Supporting) | ||||
| Career and Technical Education Programs of Study Alignment | Health Science | |||
| Alignment to TEA’s STEM Fluency Skills | Communication • Use a variety of communication tools • Body Language Verbal Communication Active Listening Collaboration Critical Thinking Creativity | Verbal Communication Active Listening | Verbal Communication Active Listening Critical Thinking | Communication - use a variety of communication tools |
Yearly Plan | |||
| Unit Title | Career Explorations: Civil Engineering | Coding | Robotics |
| Time | 4-9 days | 3-4 days | 2-4 days |
| Understandings | Students understand what a civil engineer does.
Students understand structures that civil engineers build. (e.g. arch bridges, beam bridges, truss bridges, tunnels)
Students understand how a civil engineer helps the community.
Students understand the purpose of a structure.
Students understand ways to evaluate the strength of a structure for safety.
Students understand how to compare the design of multiple structures.
Students understand how to compare the iterations of their design.
Students understand the importance of following directions during the design process.
Students understand how to use the design process by asking questions, imagining, and making a plan. | Students understand how to discuss a problem or task and decompose the solution into simple steps.
Students understand how to identify simple patterns and make predictions based on the patterns.
Students understand how to create an algorithm using a step-by-step process such as first, next, then, and last. | Students understand how to create a sequence of code with or without technology. |
| Technology Applications TEKS | TK.3A, TK.3B | TK.1A,T K.1B, TK.1C | TK.2 |
| Science TEKS (Supporting) | |||
| Career and Technical Education Programs of Study Alignment | Engineering | Information Technology | Information Technology |
| Alignment to TEA’s STEM Fluency Skills | Communication • Use a variety of communication tools • Body Language Verbal Communication Active Listening Collaboration Critical Thinking Creativity | Communication • Use a variety of communication tools • Body Language Verbal Communication Active Listening Collaboration Critical Thinking Creativity | Communication • Use a variety of communication tools • Body Language Verbal Communication Active Listening Collaboration Critical Thinking Creativity |