Kindergarten  / 2nd Six Weeks

Overarching Concept: Systems

Organizing Idea: All Aboard for Systems

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Unit Contents

Students will explore the concept of a system through role playing and hands-on experiences. They will look at how parts of a system work together to perform a function and will create realistic diagrams of a system and its parts. Throughout the six weeks students will investigate safety, maps, globes, neighborhoods, landforms, and bodies of water. As a culminating activity students will construct, document, and explain a system that makes music.

Activities

Frogs, Fiction and Nonfiction - by Angelia Hopwood-Lewis
Students will learn to distinguish fiction from nonfiction and identify reasons for reading each type of book.

Introduction to Maps - by Paige Edwards
Students will learn what maps are, learn vocabulary words associated with maps (compass, legend, atlas, globe), and be able to answer basic questions to use the map.
Introduction to Maps Worksheet

Libraries And Technology – by Brenda McElyea
Students will examine how technology in the library has changed over time.

The Library as a System – by Brenda McElyea: Students will analyze the library as a system.

The Library in Franklin's Neighborhood - by Cheryl Gee
The student will be able to define a system and identitfy important parts of a neighborhood, a type of system, especially the library.

Story Elements -  Kim Murff

Wheels on the Bus – by Brenda McElyea
Students explore the concept of systems.  Students discuss a story exploring various alternatives.

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