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🔬 Kindergarten · ScienceK-2-ETS1-1Unit 1: We are scientists: observing with our senses

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🎯 Objective: Students use magnifiers and balances to observe.

Lesson outline

  1. Model tool use and safety.
  2. Explore leaves and rocks.
  3. Draw what you saw.
  4. Exit: name a tool.

Lesson 3 of 3 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-2-ETS1-1

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Use the five senses to observe
  • Ask questions and share observations

✅ 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 “We are scientists: observing with our senses”

  1. Our five senses
  2. Asking questions
  3. Science tools

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