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“Actions that Help and Hurt” Informational Life Science Bundle

Kindergarten • Lesson Plan Bundle
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

Skills:

  • Ask and answer questions about the text, cause and effect, problem solution
  • Practice identifying and reading unknown words
  • Create a pledge to the Earth
  • Real life application activity: students can help pick up litter to help the environment

Materials Needed:

  • Blank paper (1 per student)
  • Pencils and crayons/colored pencils
  • Scissors, glue, document camera or whiteboard
  • Optional: bags to pick up trash outside and gloves or zip lock bags to cover students’ hands

Printable Resources: Required:

  •  1 copy of the informational text, Actions That Help and Hurt, (color copy recommended)
  • “Cause and Effect” (1 copy per student and 1 copy for the teacher)
  • Optional: “My Pledge to the Earth” (1 copy per student) or blank paper

CCSS: RI.K.1, RI.K.2, RI.K.3, RI.K.4, RI.K.5, RI.K.6, & W.K.2

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

Perfect for English Language Learners, this Kindergarten bundle of 3 ELA lesson plans (30-45 minutes each) based on a printable Informational Life Science book, Actions that Help and Hurt by Jennifer Kaul.  Students will:

  • Segment 1: discuss cause and effect on the topic of people and their relationship with the environment, use context clues to define new vocabulary, match pictures that show cause and effect from the text.
  • Segment 2: ask and answer questions about the text, identify a problem from the text and draw a picture, and identify a solution to a problem from the book.
  • Segment 3: write their own pledge to the earth including a picture

These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.

**This lesson also addresses Kindergarten Life Science NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards). ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems Things that people do to live comfortably can affect the world around them. But they can make choices that reduce their impacts on the land, water, air, and other living things. (secondary to K-ESS2-2),(K-ESS3-3)