Last updated: 4/8/2025

KIndergarten Science Trimester 3

March, April, May, June

10 Instructional Hours

K - Living Things: Needs and Impacts

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(1) S.K.ESS.2.2 Students who demonstrate understanding can construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs.
(1) S.K.ESS.3.1 Students who demonstrate understanding can use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.
(1) S.K.LS.1.1 Students who demonstrate understanding can use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.

What do animals need to survive?

How do animals get food?

What do plants ned to survive?

How does the enviroment effect animals?

What are natural resources that humans need to survrive?

Why do animals hibernate?

Why do animals migrate?

What happens to plants during different seasons?

 

PLTW: 

EQ1: How can plants and animals impact their natural environment to meet their needs?

EQ2: How can humans lessen their negative impact on the natural environment?

EQ3: How can a step-by-step process help you design or improve a solution to a problem?

 

 

 

Plants, animals and their enviroment
animal A living thing that eats food and moves.
living thing Anything that is alive or was once alive.
natural environment All our surroundings. This includes the air, land, water, plants, and animals.
need Something a living thing must have to survive. Examples of needs are water and air.
observe To watch and listen to something carefully.
pattern Something that is repeated over and over.
plant A living thing that makes its own food using sunlight, air, and water. Examples of plants are trees, flowers, ferns, and moss.
brainstorm To think of many ways to solve a problem.
impact A change in the natural environment.

I am learning to

  • identify plants
  • identify animals
  • describe what plants need to survive
  • describe what animals need to survive
  • describe what people need to survive
  • describe non-living and living things

Activity 1: 

Included in Equipment Kit

Not Included in Equipment Kit

Device Application
  • Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner
  • Index cards (5 per student)
  • PLTW Launch Logs
    (1 per student)
  • Digital devices
  • Magazines
  • Scissors
  • Glue or glue sticks
  • Pencils or crayons for sketching
  • Chart paper
    • Markers
    • Inkling or my.pltw.org

     

    Activity 2: 

    Included in the Equipment Kit

    Not Included in Equipment Kit

    Device Applications
    • Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner
    • Magnifying lenses
    • PLTW Launch Logs
      (1 per student)
    • Digital devices
    • Living things cards (from Activity 1)
    • Pencils or crayons for sketching
    • Chart paper
    • Markers
    • Inkling or my.pltw.org
    • ShowMe Interactive Whiteboard
    • Popplet Lite 
    • Mindomo
    • Zoho Show
    • Camera

     

    Activity 3: 

    Included in Equipment Kit

    Not Included in Equipment Kit

    Device Application
    • Because of an Acorn by Lola M. Schaefer and Adam Schaefer
    • Wooden dowels to represent twigs
    • Blue construction paper to represent water
    • Brown construction paper to represent beavers
    • Green construction paper to represent trees
    • PLTW Launch Logs
      (1 per student)
    • Digital devices
    • Pencils or crayons for sketching
    • Chart paper or butcher paper (to represent the dam collection area)
      • Items to represent stones and mud (at least 20 items), such as:
        • Leaves
        • Balls
          • Inkling or my.pltw.org

          End of Module 1 - Assessment Questions:  

          1. Describe a living thing from your natural environment. How does it impact the natural nvironment to meet its needs?

          2. How do you think humans impact the natural environment to meet their needs? Is this impact positive or negative to the natural environment?

           

          Activity 1 Formative Assessment Questions: 

          1. Think about a specific plant and a specific animal. How are they alike? How are they different?

          2. If you could be any living thing, what would you be? Why would you choose this? What needs would you have to survive?

           

          Activity 2 Formative Assessment Question: 

          1. Think about a fish. What do you think their natural environment is? How do you think this natural environment meet the needs of the fish? Explain your thinking.

           

          Activity 3 Formative Assessment Questions: 

          1. Describe a living thing from your natural environment. How does it impact the natural environment to meet its needs?

          2. How do you think humans impact the natural environment to meet their needs? Is this impact positive or negative to the natural environment?

           

          Summative Assessment Rubric: 

          https://instructional-resources.s3.amazonaws.com/PLTW_Launch/10016_K_LivingThings_NeedsandImpacts/English_External_Files/K_6_SummativeRubric.pdf 

           

          Assessment Opportunities
          Question Learning Objective Knowledge and Skills
          1 LO2  Describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. KS2.3  Observe living things in the natural environment in your local area.
          2 LO2  Describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive. KS2.1  Identify what plants need to survive.
          KS2.2  Identify what animals need to survive.
          3 LO3.2  Communicate solutions that will lessen the negative impact of humans on the natural environment. KS3.2.1  Identify ways humans can lessen their negative impact on the natural environment.

           

           
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