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Kindergarten science thematic unit plan pdfs
Plant Investigation Unit: All About Plants, Life Cycle and Needs
Come explore the world of plants with this investigative science unit! Your students will have the opportunity to explore this topic using: arts and crafts, printables, mini books, science explorations and so much more! This non-fiction pack includes:1. Recommended Book List2. Life Cycle of a Plant Poster3. Life Cycle Cards (clipart set and real photo set)4. Plant Life Cycle Mini Flip Book5. Finish the Plant Life Cycle Student Worksheet6. KWL Chart7. "Can, Have, Are" Graphic Organizer 8. Venn D
Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Plants: Plant Life Cycle Print & Digital Activities BUNDLE
Space Station Dramatic Play
Space Station Dramatic Play is a fun theme you can do in your pretend or dramatic play center. A teacher planning web breaks the theme down, week by week and includes a book list. There are labels and pictures showing how to set up your Space Station in your dramatic play center. Just print the labels, signs, and make the props. This theme integrates social, math, language, literacy, science, and fine motor all into their play! This is a theme/unit designed for a preschool, pre-k, or kindergar
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PreK - K
Also included in: Dramatic Play Bundle for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
Presidents Day and American Symbols Activities and Craft, US National Symbols
Are you looking for an engaging unit to teach American Symbols or President's Day? This unit is packed with social studies, math, literacy activities and crafts for a one or two-week unit on United States Symbols and US Presidents in your Kindergarten or first grade classroom.Over 100 pages of resources and activities. Included in this unit are: Nonfiction text with a page for each symbolEmergent reader of the symbols for kids to read and colorAmerican symbols book to label and write about th
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K - 1st
Solar System Unit for Kindergarten and First Grade
Your students will have a blast learning about space with this solar system unit for kindergarten and first grade! The week-long comprehensive unit includes detailed daily lesson plans with literature suggestions. It incorporates science, reading, writing, math, handwriting and art. It also includes QR codes and links to videos that complement the unit study.Click on the PREVIEW to read each lesson plan, see the Week-at-a-Glance planning sheet, key concepts students will learn in this unit, as
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Grades:
K - 1st
NGSS:
1-ESS1-1
Apple Activities - All About Apples Unit with Crafts, Life Cycle, Graph & More!
This All About Apples unit is full of engaging apple activities and crafts for first grade or kindergarten students. Students will love the literacy and math activities and full-color nonfiction text that teaches them about the life cycle of an apple and the way apple trees change during the seasons. This resource includes:a full-color nonfiction text apples with real picturesvocabulary cardsapple life cycle printableThe Seasons of an apple tree printableapple map printableparts of an apple pri
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PreK - 1st
Ocean Exploration Unit: All About Ocean Life and Animals
Dive right into this ocean life exploration unit! Your students will have the opportunity to explore this topic using: arts and crafts, non-fiction ocean animal readers, science explorations and so much more! This unit includes:1. Recommended Book List2. Ocean Life Reading Comprehension pages for: fish, Puffer Fish, starfish, seahorse, jellyfish, mollusks, dolphin, whale, shark, sea turtle, crustaceans3. Ocean Zones Wheel craft/reader with Templates (sunlit, twilight, midnight and abyssal)4. Oce
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K - 2nd
Pumpkin Investigation Unit: All About Pumpkins and Life Cycle
Celebrate the Fall season with this investigative non-fiction pumpkin unit! Your students will learn all about the pumpkin life cycle and their characteristics through hands-on experiments and activities.This non-fiction pack includes:1. Recommended Book List2. Life Cycle Poster3. Life Cycle Cards (clipart set and non-fiction photos set)4. Pumpkin Mini Book Craftivity with Templates (includes fun pumpkin facts!)5. Pumpkin Life Cycle Printable6. KWL Chart7. "Can, Have, Are" Graphic Organizer8. Pu
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Also included in: Pumpkins: Pumpkin Life Cycle Print & Digital Activities BUNDLE
Dinosaur Unit with Activities, Crafts, Math, Writing, Research Passages & More
Are you looking for an engaging Dinosaur Unit for kindergarten, 1st or 2nd grade?RAWR! Your little Paleontologists will love learning about dinosaurs with this jam-packed unit. Please read the description and view the preview to get a good idea of what's included. Note: There are TWO versions of the Dinosaur reading page. Version one says they roamed the earth millions of years ago, and version two says that lived LONG AGO. Use whichever version works best for you. *Dinosaur Unit Plan to hel
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K - 2nd
Hygiene & Healthy Habits: Hand Washing & Brushing Teeth-Dental Health {PreK & K}
Teach how proper hand washing and brushing your teeth keeps bodies happy and healthy! This unit is filled with supplemental activities to engage your students as you explore various hygiene and dental health related topics. In this unit, you will find hands on activities, experiments, songs, printables and so much more! Here's what is included:1. Recommended Book List2. Hand Washing Sign (in color & b/w)3. Hand Washing Steps Poster (in color & b/w)4. "How to Wash My Hands" (2 differentia
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PreK - K
Also included in: Healthy Habits BUNDLE: Hygiene, Nutrition & Food Groups {PreK & K}
Worm Science Investigation Unit
Wiggly, slimy and moving inch by inch into your student's world....This unit is filled with supplemental activities to engage your students as you explore the exciting life of a worm. In this unit, you will find: hands on activities, printables, arts and crafts, and so much more! "All About Worms" includes:1. Recommended book list 2. All About Earthworms mini book3. What Do Worms Need? printable 4. Parts of an Earthworm printable 5. Types of Worms poster6. Comparing Worms Venn Diagram 7. Earthwo
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PreK - 1st
Also included in: Thematic Units for PreK & Kindergarten MEGA BUNDLE
Butterfly Life Cycle Investigation
Step into the world of life cycles with this butterfly investigative unit! Your students will have the opportunity to explore this topic using arts and crafts, printables, mini books, Math/ELA activities and so much more! ***This mini-unit is part of our Butterfly and Frog Investigation pack. Save when you by the bundle. Save even MORE when you buy our Life Cycles Mega Bundle!***This non fiction pack includes:1. Recommended Book List2. Butterfly Life Cycle Poster3. Butterfly Life Cycle Cards (
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K - 2nd
Also included in: Butterfly and Frog Life Cycle Investigation BUNDLE
Farm Dramatic Play
Farm Dramatic Play is a fun theme you can do in your pretend or dramatic play center! A teacher planning web breaks the theme down, week by week and includes a book list. There are labels and pictures showing how to set up your Farm in your dramatic play center. Just print the labels, signs, craftivity patterns, and props. Then let the fun begin. This theme integrates social, math, language, literacy, science, and fine motor all into their play! This is a theme/unit designed for a preschoo
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Grades:
PreK - K
Also included in: Dramatic Play Bundle for Preschool, Pre-K, and Kindergarten
Penguin Activities for Kindergarten - Math, Literacy, Science & Crafts
Looking for an engaging penguin research unit for kindergarten, 1st or 2nd grade? Check out this resource full of fun penguin activities, math printables, crafts and more! This unit includes:A Getting Started Guide: Prelearning opinion writing and graph project schema chart 17 full page posters with Video links for 16 different species of penguins. (I was unable to find a video for Rockhopper) Just pull up on the Smartboard for no prep learning!16 half page posters with QR code video links
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K - 2nd
Ocean Unit: Ocean Animals Research Project, Ocean Animal Craft, Ocean Habitat
Explore the ocean habitat and ocean animals with this engaging and easy to use ocean unit! It is filled with engaging ocean activities for your students--ocean animals graphic organizers, an interactive reader, ocean animal research fact charts, and much more--to learn all about the ocean and ocean animals! **SAVE BIG WITH THIS MAY SCIENCE BUNDLE!**This ocean unit is filled with activities that are interactive for the K-2 learner. Inside you will find:Science Unit ResourcesUnit Teaching Plan Int
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K - 2nd
Bugs and Insects Theme, Insect Research Writing, Math and Craft Activities
Are you looking for an engaging insect unit for kindergarten or 1st grade? Have fun teaching math and literacy with a bugs & insects theme! This best-selling unit has recently been revised and is loaded with insect nonfiction texts, research writing and hands-on activities & crafts.What's included in this Insect Unit:All About Insects anchor chart and nonfiction bookInsect student fact bookBuild a Bug activityA Bug's Eye View activityAre You an Insect? Entomologist activity & poemG
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PreK - 1st
Constellation Cards/Activity
This is a great activity for your youngsters when studying outer space and the solar system! It can be used as a math unit (counting stars), history (the origin of constellations and their importance), or science (constellations in general!).These can also be scaled down and pasted into an interactive notebook or used as matching cards.There are two constellations on each page, for a total of 6 constellations with varying degrees of difficulty. The constellations included are:-The Big Dipper-Leo
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PreK - 3rd
Also included in: SPACE BUNDLE
End of the Year Final Countdown Activities - Bubble Day
Celebrate the end of the year countdown with a Bubble Day! These end of the year countdown Bubble Day activities incorporate all of the subjects, including math, science, ELA, art and STEM. Plus, these Bubble Day activities are sure to keep your kiddos engaged during your final countdown to the last day of school! Even if you’re not quite ready to end the year, a Bubble Day is a nice celebration for anytime of the year... end of the marking period or semester, end of a testing period, in place o
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Grades:
K - 2nd
Storybook STEM {September} - Back to School STEM Activities - The Recess Queen
***Save BIG with the All Year Bundle!★STORYBOOK STEM ALL YEAR BUNDLECreated by Brooke Brown and Katie King, Storybook STEM provides early childhood teachers with weekly all-in-one units to cover essential skills in reading comprehension, vocabulary, grammar, math, science, and engineering.Four units are included to accompany favorite seasonal children’s books, with supplemental STEM challenges for each and differentiated literacy and math options for Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade.*
Grades:
K - 2nd
Sunflower Life Cycle and Plant Parts Unit
This is a fun packet full of lots of colorful picture cards and practice pages to teach your students all about the life cycle of a sunflower and its parts.
Contents include:
2 anchor charts
*Life Cycle of a Sunflower
*Parts of a Sunflower
10 colorful vocabulary cards:
5 stages of the life cycle - germination, seedling, growing, flowering, and decomposing (these print 2 per 8 1/2 x11" page)
5 parts of a sunflower - seed, roots, stem, leaves, and flower
Word labels for the vocabulary listed a
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Grades:
K - 1st
Earth Day Mini Unit: Activities and Printables!
Get your students excited about Earth Day with this fun and interactive unit! You will find supplemental activities to engage your students as you explore environmental awareness, such as: hands on activities, crafts, science explorations, math and language arts printables, a mini book and so much more! 1. Recommended Book List2. Earth Day Word Wall (2 Pages)3. "Earth Day" Mini Book4. "Gifts from Our Planet" Natural Resources printable5. "My Earth Day Pledge" craftivity with directions and templ
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Grades:
K - 2nd
All About Owls Unit, Owl Craft, Writing Template, Owl Pellet Activities & More
Are you looking for an all about owls themed unit? Check out this set full of hands-on science, math activities, writing templates, crafts and more! This K/1 unit is perfect for the month of October or November; these engaging activities will teach your students all about owls and review a variety of math and literacy skills.This best-selling unit has been completely revised, with new activities added and others revamped.What's included:All About Owls nonfiction text with real photosAll About
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Grades:
PreK - 1st
Dinosaur Activities End Of The Year Theme Day Room Transformation 1st Grade
These dinosaur activities will bring the past to life with engaging, hands-on science lesson plans. K-2 students will go on a dinosaur dig, create fossils, a giant dinosaur bones skeleton craft, and research and write about dinosaurs.CLICK ON THE PREVIEW TO SEE EVERYTHING INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE Your class will love becoming paleontologists with the fun activities included in this resource. Students will have the opportunity to search for bones and other artifacts, make observations of their d
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K - 2nd
Also included in: SEASONAL ACTIVITIES BUNDLE
Dinosaur Coloring Pages
This pack is a great addition to your dinosaur unit! These fun coloring pages are great to put at a station. I had my students water color them and they came out amazing! This coloring pack includes:** = TWO versions- ** Dinosaurs (all in one)- ** Stegosaurus- ** Pterodactyl & Triceratops- ** Parasaurolophus & Brachiosaurus- ** Tyrannosaurus Rex- Dinosaur Fossils- Stegosaurus Bones- Pterodactyl Bones- Triceratops Bones- Brachiosaurus Bones- Pterodactyl Bones- T-Rex Bones
Grades:
PreK - 2nd
Also included in: Dinosaur BUNDLE
Groundhog Day Activities
Will Groundhog see its shadow? This mini unit is filled with supplemental activities to engage your students as you explore Groundhogs. In this unit, you will find: hands on activities, arts and crafts, printables, science connections, and much more!
Groundhog Day Unit Contains:
1. Recommended Book List
2. Groundhog Day Poster
3. Word Wall
4. "Shadow Predictions" {graph and tally}
5. Draw and Write
6. Puppet craft with template
7. Describe the Groundhog
8. K.W.L Chart
9. "Can, Have, A
Grades:
K - 1st
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