Plan, Do, and Review: Hands-on Engineering and Dramatic Play Activities
Help me give my students hands on engineering activities to explore Forces of Motion. Using the Simple Machine set will allow my students to investigate the changes in speed of objects falling in different directions.
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
Every day these kindergarten students start with eating breakfast in the classroom. We then have our math lesson, Language Arts, and end the day with science. How fun is it to explore science through a worksheet? My students need hands-on activities to enhance their understanding of Forces of Motion. I would like to enrich my students' science experiences through hands-on learning activities. I would also like to enhance our Oral language block by adding realistic food and multicultural baby dolls.
This school is a Title I school.
Many students come from disadvantaged homes. The classroom consists of multinational and multilingual students. They love to learn and get very excited when they discover new things.
My Project
The Utah Kindergarten Science and Engineering Education Standards have been revised and I would like to update my science and engineering center activities. Standard K.3.1 states that students need to "plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of forces (pushes and pulls) on the motion of an object." My students need hands on activities in order to experience the Forces of Motion. The Simple Machines Set will reinforce my Kindergarten students' abilities to independently conduct investigations into the Forces of Motion.
Most of my students speak English as their second language.
I would like to get a listening center in Spanish to help reinforce literacy in my students' home language. I would also like to add more realia to the Oral Language Block by adding food and baby dolls. We are also focusing this year on the foundations of reading. I would like to add more rhyming activities to my center time.
More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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