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🔬 Kindergarten · ScienceK-PS3-2Unit 3: Sunlight & weather

Build a shade structure

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🎯 Objective: Students design a structure that reduces the warming effect of sunlight.

Lesson outline

  1. Plan with craft materials.
  2. Build.
  3. Test with a thermometer or ice.
  4. Exit: share results.

Lesson 4 of 5 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

K-PS3-2

Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Kindergarten — typical US unit order

🏁 Unit goals

  • Observe and describe local weather patterns
  • Describe how sunlight warms Earth’s surface
  • Design a shade structure

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🦫 Encyclopedia: Science🦫 Kids encyclopedia⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Sunlight & weather”

  1. Daily weather
  2. Weather patterns
  3. Sunlight warms things
  4. Build a shade structure
  5. Severe weather safety

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