In this lesson, students will use their bodies and jump ropes to exemplify the different ways we use motion.

Students will listen to a close reading of Harry the Dirty Dog  over the course of 3 days.  (The book is accessible via NC Kids Digital Library.   Personal copy or online versions can be used.) After each read aloud, students will have the opportunity to engage in The Engineering Design Process to create a maze using various materials to construct different ways for Harry to move through the maze .  Students will write to tell about their maze using sentence frames and an anchor chart for support.  Finally, students will present their maze and read their informational writing to reflect their knowledge of the Force and Motion standard, specifically the different ways objects move.  Maze creation and student informational writing should reflect multiple modes of movement per the NC Kindergarten Science Standards.

This Unit has been adapted for DL classes (Eng/Spa).  This is a kindergarten Unit.

In this lesson, students will reflect on how animals and objects move in the environment and replicate their motion using a DASH robot and essential vocabulary words.

Compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object and determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull.

Driving Question: Can I as “Science Investigator”, engineer and design,
a way to move an object without using my hands or feet?

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

This resource accompanies our Rethink Kindergarten Science Forces and Motion 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 Forces & Motion.

ELL students will learn vocabulary for describing movement, useful for describe animal or objects in motion. Students listen and read the descriptive words and watch animals demonstrating the movements.

In this lesson, students must listen and follow directions. They will perform locomotor movements based upon those directions.

Students study the motion of objects by brainstorming and experimenting with the different ways that a ping-pong ball can move. They will then create a structure that can be used to move an object from one place to another. They are encouraged to observe and test their structures, revising them as needed.

Students will connect objects with the words that describe how they are moving.

This is the educator's guide for a set of activities that teach students about humans' endeavors to return to the moon. The emphasis is for students to understand that engineers must "imagine and plan" before they begin to build and experiment. Each activity features objectives, a list of materials, educator information, procedures, and student worksheets. Students should work in teams to complete the activities. Note: Activities do not align to all objectives that are listed; specific activities align to specific objectives.

This Kindergarten Science Unit supports students understanding of how to classify objects by observable physical properties as well as how to c ompare the observable physical properties of different kinds of materials.

In this lesson, students will navigate an obstacle course using the different position words from the standards. 

Students will learn about Positional Words and show their learning with Wonder Workshop's Dash.