This Project GLAD unit will Compare characteristics of animals that make them alike and different. Students will know how to compare different types of the same animal (i.e. different types of dogs, different types of cats, etc.) to determine individual differences within a particular type of animal.

In this lesson, Kindergarten students will take a walk through campus and look for local birds. They will identify the birds they see based on their unique characteristics. Then they will use pictures of these birds to make algorithms using the Beebot having the Beebot move from start to the picture of the bird placed randomly on the mat. This lesson ties in NCSCOS standards for Science, and Computer Science.

Students will complete research about an animal of their choice using the San Diego Zoo Kids Zoo website. The students will create a SlideShow Presentation to share with the class teaching about their animal. The class will use given “clues” based on research to guess the student's animal.

In this short video, join Brandon and Emily on a nature hike with Falyn from the NC Wildlife Resources Commission as they discover all kinds of plants and animals and learn a thing or two about the amazing nature of North Carolina!

After reading about polar bears and other arctic animals,  students will use Keva planks to build a den that the polar bear can stand up in.

Students construct a yarn bridge between 2 cups that can hold as many spiders as possible.

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the Kindergarten Science content.

This resource accompanies our Rethink Kindergarten Science Living Organisms unit. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning. 

This unit was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for Kindergarten Science in Structures & Functions of Living Organisms.

A tale of two beetles! Visit with the Neighborhood Naturalist as we compare the native Green June Beetle (June Bugs) and the non-native Japanese beetle.

Join the Zoo's Neighborhood Naturalist digging into some soil in search of amazing and beneficial Earthworms!

What happens when an insect is unintentionally brought into the country, has plenty to eat and very few predators? The Neighborhood Naturalist takes a look at Japanese Beetles.

Nature is filled with creatures that look like other organisms: Insects that look like Plants, and Animals that Look like other Animals. Join Mr. Bob, Neighborhood Naturalist as we take a look at lookalike Bees, and Moths that mimic birds!

Students will study Polar Bears:Where do they live?What are their body characteristics?What do they eat?Their lifecycle...How are they different from other bears? (black, brown, pandas)

Students will learn how to do basic research on animals that they have read about in a Jan Brett book.

As consumers we expect computers to process information as quickly as possible so that programs run faster, websites load faster, and we don’t have to spend a long time watching progress bars and the spinning wheel that appears when computers are thinking about something! One way to increase the speed of a computer is to write programs that use fewer computational steps (as shown in the lessons on sorting and searching algorithms). Another way to solve problems faster is to have several computers work on different parts of the same task at the same time, which is what this unit explores.

This is additional curriculum for the Untamed Science video series created in a partnership between the North Carolina Zoo and videographer Rob Nelson. You are meant to watch the original video and then open the PDF resource below for an activity involving wildlife conservation!

This project is launched at your local pet store. Students gather information about various pets by exposure of visiting the pet store, class family pet visitors, a local vet, pet adoption agency, classroom literacy, etc. Students then choose a pet they would like to promote to sell at the pet shop. The students build brochures/posters/web videos to promote which pet a customer (the audience) should get. The concluding expo entails the audience listening/viewing student research and collected data so that they would choose which pet they would get.