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“Pushes and Pulls: Speeding Up and Slowing Down” Informational Physical Science Bundle

Kindergarten • Lesson Plan Bundle
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

Skills:

  • Identify parts of a book, name the author and illustrator of a text and define the role
  • Ask and answer questions about key details in a text
  • Identify cause and effect and compare and contrast
  • Ask and answer questions about unknown words

Materials Needed:

  • pencils and crayons/colored pencils
  • document camera or whiteboard
  • objects in classroom to explore pushes and pulls: crayons, markers, balls, baskets of items, etc., scissors and glue,
  • 2 hula hoops (if not available, Venn Diagram can be created with string or pictures can be sorted in columns)
  • playground equipment if available to explore pushes and pulls: slides, swings, balls, etc.
  • 4-5 small light baskets and 4-5 jump ropes or strong string to wrap around 2 chairs
  • 8-10 chairs

Printable Resources: Required Printable Text:

  • “Pushes and Pulls: Speeding up and Slowing Down" (1 copy for teacher),
  • “Push, Pull Web Diagram” (1 copy for display),
  • “Scientific Method Poster” (1 copy for display)
  • “Push or Pull?” (1 copy for student, 1 copy for teacher)
  • “Push, Pull Venn Diagram Pictures” (1 teacher copy - cut the pictures out before the lesson)
  • “Push, Pull Venn Diagram and Pictures”(1 copy per student)
  • Optional Assessment Component: “Exit Slips”(1 copy per student)

CCSS: RI.K.1, RI.K.3, RI.K.4, RI.K.5, RI.K.6

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

Fully-scripted bundle of 3 lessons (45-60 minutes each) based on an informational text “Pushes and Pulls: Speeding Up and Slowing Down” by Jennifer Kaul.  Students will:

  • Segment 1: Identify the title and author of the book, use context clues to define new vocabulary, ask and answer questions about the text, investigate how objects move and stop, identify activities as a push or a pull, define push and pull, and brainstorm push and pull activities in a web diagram.
  • Segment 2: Use context clues to define new vocabulary, ask and answer questions about the text, investigate how pushes and pulls speed up and slow down, discuss cause and effect on the topic of push and pull, explore and understand how a push and pull affects how objects move, share and discuss observations, sort pushes and pulls in a Venn Diagram, define push and pull.
  • Segment 3: Ask and answer questions about the text, use context clues to define new vocabulary, define push and pull, follow the scientific method by forming a question, hypothesis, investigating, observing, and drawing a conclusion about pushes and pulls, investigate how pushes and pulls speed up and slow down, investigate how objects move and stop, discuss cause and effect on the topic of push and pull, explore and understand how a push and pull affects how objects move, share and discuss observations.

This lesson addresses NGSS PS3.C: Relationship Between Energy and Forces A bigger push or pull makes things speed up or slow down more quickly. (secondary to K-PS2-1)

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