sun  Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Unit 1

 

Kindergarten Home
Exploration Questions 1-5 Exploration Questions 6-10 Exploration Questions 11-14

 

Unit Questions Teacher Resources Student Resources
How have things changed over time?
Exploration Questions 1-5		 curriculumShared Reading:
Smart Shared Reading Notebook 4-1

curriculumVideos:
 Melody Street, When I Grow Up
(SafeShare)

Time Lapse of House Being Built
(SafeShare)

Environment With Scenery and Animals
(SafeShare)
Art Integration:
 Past and Present in Art
(PowerPoint)
(Google Slides version)

Diptych and Triptych
(PowerPoint)
(Google Slides version)

SMART Notebooks:
sbSBNow and Then Sort

smartboard icon Past Present Future

smartboard icon What is Technology?

WixieWixie:
Wixie: Teachers login to Wixie, select link, and then assign to students.
 Short e Families

Growing Up

When I Grow Up

Then and Now
Foundational Activities:
Sandcastle Sounds
(BBC)

Blend It Sounds
(BBC)

Dolch Words
(Abcya)

Build a House
(Abcya)

Puzzle Me CVC Words
(Read, Write, Think)

smartboard Sounds and Words
How have things changed over time?
Exploration Questions 6-10		 curriculumShared Reading:
smartboard Shared Reading Notebook 4-1

Interactive Reading:
 Hold On
(UniteforLiteracy - Search for title)

 Daisy Diaz Shakes Up Camp
Tumblebooks login:
Username: aacpl
Password: aacps
curriculumScience and Social Studies:
smartboard icon Impact Positive or Negative

smartboard icon Toys Changed

curriculumVideos:
Discovery: Prior to selecting link, login to Discovery Streaming (aacps.discoveryeducation.com)

 Technology in Transportation

What is Technology?
(SafeShare)

Art Integration:
Enlmpact

Change Song

 Theme Activities:
 Build a Bot
(Curious George)

 Marvel Coaster
(Cat in the Hat)
Foundational Activities:
 Cup Stacking Typing
(Abcya)

Computer Vocabulary
(Abcya)

Construct a Word
(Read, Write ,Think)

Learn to Read
(Starfall)
How have things changed over time?
Exploration Questions 11-14		 curriculumInteractive Reading:
Discovery: Prior to selecting link, login to Discovery Streaming (aacps.discoveryeducation.com)
 Ruth Law Thrills a Nation

curriculumShared Reading:
smartboard Shared Reading Notebook 4-1
 
Cyber Five

Art Integration:
 Community Changes
(Word)
(Google Doc version)

Transportation Changes Pictures

wixie Wixie:
Wixie: Teachers login to Wixie, select link and then assign to students.
 Transportation Changes

curriculumnVideos:
Discovery: Prior to selecting the link login to Discovery Education (aacps.discoveryeducation.com)
DiscoveryHand in Hand: Moving On

Kids React to Rotary Phone
(SafeShare)

History of Transportation
(SafeShare)
 curriculumTheme Activities:
Transportation Game

 CyberFive
(AbcYa)
AquaBot
(PBSKids -SciGirls)

 Invention Engine
(Cat in the Hat)

Foundational Activities:
 Word Family Sorts
(Read, Write, Think)

Problem With Chickens
(Between the Lions)

Half-pipe Hover
(PBSKids)

 

 

Teacher Notes
Questions/Resources Standards
How have things changed over time? 
Exploration Questions 1-5

 Common Core
CCSS.RF.K.1-Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
CCSS.RF.K2-Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (Phonemes).
CCSS RF.K.2.A- Recognize and produce rhyming words.
CCSS.RF.K.3-Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
CCSS.RF.K.4-Read emergent level texts with purpose and understanding.
CCSS.L.K.1-Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. 
CCSS.L.K.5 With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS RI.K.2- With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
CCSS. RI.K.3- With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
CCSS.RI.K.9-With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts (illustrations) on the same topic.
CCSS RL.K.1- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CCSS RL.K.2- With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
CCSS RL.K.5- Recognize common types of texts (e.g.,storybooks, poems).
CCSS SL.K.5- Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
CCSS W.K.3- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
Health
National PE Standard 4:
The physically literate individual exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others.

ASCA Mindsets (Standards): Demonstrate the development of the whole self, including a healthy balance of mental, social/emotional and physical well-being.

Dance: 3.1.c-Interpret ideas from stories, poems, or songs using improvisation.
Science/Social Studies
Social Studies
SS 5.A.1- Distinguish among past, present, and future time
SS 5.A.1.b- Describe daily events in terms of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
SS 5.A.2- Tell about people in the past using informational text and features.
SS 5.A.2.c- Observe and discuss photographs of the past and compare with photographs of similar images, such as old photographs of the school and community.
SS 6.B.1.a- Write to express social studies ideas using a variety of forms, such as journals, narratives, letters, and reports.

Science
NGSS Science & Engineering
Practice 1: Ask questions based on observations to find more information about the natural and/or designed world(s).
Practice 3: Make observations (firsthand or from media) and/or measurements to collect data that can be used to make comparisons.
Crosscutting Concept 2: Events have causes that generate observable patterns.

 
Visual Arts
2.1.b- Use selected works of art as inspiration to express ideas visually and verbally about people, places and events.
3.1.a- Experiment with art media, processes, and techniques and describe ways they can be used to express thoughts and feelings.
Technology
ISTE Student Standards Addressed:
1 Empowered Learners
3 Knowledge Constructor
6 Creative Communicator
How have things changed over time?
Exploration Questions 6-10		 Common Core
CCSS RF.K.1- Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
CCSS RF.K.2-Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes)
CCSS RF.K.2.A- Recognize and produce rhyming words.
CCSS RF.K.3- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
CCSS RI.K.1- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
CCSS RI.K3- With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
CCSS RI.K.4- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
CCSS RI.K.7- With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place or thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts)
CCSS L.K.1 -Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing and speaking.
CCSS L.K.5- With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS SL.K.1- Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
CCSS SL.K.4- Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
CCSS RL.K.3-With prompting and support, identify characters, setting, and major events in a story.
Health.
National PE Standard 4:
The physically literate individual exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others.

ASCA Mindsets (Standards): Demonstrate the development of the whole self, including a healthy balance of mental, social/emotional and physical well-being.
Science/Social Studies
Science
NGSS
K-ESS3-3: Communicate solutions that reduce the impact of humans on land, water, air, or other living things in the local environment.
K-2-ETS1-1- Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
Crosscutting Concept 2: Cause and Effect, Events have causes that generate observable patterns.
Influence of Engineering, Technology, and Science on Society and the Natural World: People depend on various technologies in their lives; human life world be very different without technology.
Social Studies
SS 3.D.1.b- Identify ways that people change their environment to meet their needs.
SS K.4.A.3- Explain how technology affects the way people live, work, and play
SS K.4.A.3a- Begin to be aware of technology and how it affects life.
Visual Arts
2.4.a- Students will demonstrate the ability to organize knowledge and ideas for expression in the production of art.
Technology
ISTE Student Standards Addressed:
1 Empowered Learners
3 Knowledge Constructor
6 Creative Communicator
How have things changed over time?
Exploration questions 11-14		 Common Core
CCSS RF.K.1- Demonstrate understanding of the organization and basic features of print.
CCSS RF.K.2-Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes)
CCSS RF.K.3- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
CCSS RI.K.1- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in the text.
CCSS RI.K3- With prompting and support, describe the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
CCSS RI.K.4- With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text.
CCSS RI.K.7- With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place or thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts)
CCSS RI.K.10- Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
CCSS L.K.1 -Demonstrate command of the conventions of Standard English grammar and usage when writing and speaking.
CCSS L.K.5- With guidance and support from adults, explore word relationships and nuances in word meanings.
CCSS W.K.3- Use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to narrate a single event or several loosely linked events, tell about events in the order in which they occurred, and provide a reaction to what happened.
CCSS W.K.7- Participate in share research and writing projects.
Health
National PE Standard 4:
The physically literate individual exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others.

ASCA Mindsets (Standards): Demonstrate the development of the whole self, including a healthy balance of mental, social/emotional and physical well-being.
Science/Social Studies
Science
NGSS
Influence of Engineering, Technology, and Science on Society and the Natural World: People depend on various technologies in their lives: human life would be very different without technology
K-2-ETS1-1 - Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
K-2-ETS1-2- Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
Social Studies
SS.K.4.A.3- Explain how technology affects the way people live, work and play
SS.K.4.A.3.a- Begin to be aware of technology and how it affects life.
Technology
ISTE Student Standards Addressed:
1 Empowered Learners
3 Knowledge Constructor
6 Creative Communicator

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August 2017
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