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Common Core Interdisciplinary Unit Planning Template A
Grade:
Kindergarten
Title of Unit:
Understanding Our World (Unit 1)
21st Century Theme(s):
Enduring Understanding:
Civic Literacy & Global Awareness
People and materials can be
observed, measured and predicted.
*Essential Question 1:
(Sci) Using our five senses, how can properties and materials be
observed, measured and predicted?
Students will focus on the following CCS Standards:
1: Properties of materials can be observed, measured and predicted.
4: Scientific progress is made by asking meaningful questions and conducting careful
investigations (observe, describe, compare, and communicate).
RL.K.1 - ask & answer questions
RL.K.2 - retell familiar stories
RL.K.6 - name author & illustrator
RL.K10 - group reading activities
RI.K.1 - ask & answer about key details
RI.K.2 - identify main topic & retail main topic
RI.K.3 – connection between two pieces of information
RI.K.4 – ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text
RI.K.5 - identify parts of book
RI.K.6 – name author and illustrator & define their roles
RK.K.10 – group reading activities
W.K.3 - draw, dictate, write to narrate a single event listening & taking turns
speaking
SL.K.1a - listening & taking turns speaking
SL.K.1b - conversation through multiple exchanges
SL.K.2 - understanding text read-aloud
SL.K.3 - ask & answer questions for clarification
SL.K.4 - describe people, places, things, & events with detail
SL.K.5 - add drawings for additional detail
SL.K.6 - speak & express thoughts clearly
L.K.1.a -print many upper & lower case letters
L.K.1.e - use frequently occurring prepositions
L.K.2.a - capitalize first word and I in a sentence
L.K.2.b - recognize end punctuation
L.K.5.a - sort common objects
L.K.5.d - distinguish meanings describing same action
L.K.6 - use words and phrases acquired through conversations
Resources/Activities
The Five Senses by Aliki
Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You
See? By Bill Martin Jr.
Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You
Hear? By Bill Martin Jr.
You Can’t Smell A Flower With Your
Ear by Joanna Cole & Gary Ed. Cole
Sense Suspense, A Guessing Game
For The Five Senses by Bruce McMillan
Touch . . . What Do You Feel? By
Nicholas Wood
Your Five Senses by Melvin & Gilda
Berger
My Five Senses by Kaye Gager
All About The Five Senses by Beth
Goodman
Scott Foresman Science, Unit A,
chapter 1, lesson 2
Brown Bear color book pdf:
Dos.google.com/file/d/0ByBagqlM6QQ
HZno2RVFwU0ZTWmc/edit?pli=1
Embedded Assessment:
In small groups, students will sort pictures/objects according to the
5 senses. Working collaboratively, students will defend their
choices verbally.
*Essential Question 2:
(SS) What are qualities for being a good citizen?
Students will focus on the following CCS Standards:
K.1 1-3: Students understand that being a good citizen involves acting in certain
ways.
K.6.1: Identify the purpose of, and people and events honored in, commemorative
holidays, incuding the human struggles that were the basis for the events.
Lancaster School District
Department of Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment
Johnny Appleseed by Steven Kellog (or
any variation)
David Goes To School by David
Shannon
Why Should I Help? By Claire Llewellyn
Being Helpful by Joy Berry
Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns About
Bullies by Howard Binkow & Susan F.
Unit Template A (Revised: 6/3/13)
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K.6.2: Know the triumphs in American legends and historical accounts.
RL.K.1 - ask & answer questions
RL.K.2 - retell familiar stories
RL.K.6 - name author & illustrator
RL.K10 - group reading activities
RI.K.1 - ask & answer about key details
RI.K.2 - identify main topic & retail main topic
RI.K.3 – connection between two pieces of information
RI.K.4 – ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text
RI.K.5 - identify parts of book
RI.K.6 – name author and illustrator & define their roles
RK.K.10 – group reading activities
W.K.3 - draw, dictate, write to narrate a single event listening & taking turns
speaking
SL.K.1a - listening & taking turns speaking
SL.K.1b - conversation through multiple exchanges
SL.K.2 - understanding text read-aloud
SL.K.3 - ask & answer questions for clarification
SL.K.4 - describe people, places, things, & events with detail
SL.K.5 - add drawings for additional detail
SL.K.6 - speak & express thoughts clearly
L.K.1.a -print many upper & lower case letters
L.K.1.e - use frequently occurring prepositions
L.K.2.a - capitalize first word and I in a sentence
L.K.2.b - recognize end punctuation
L.K.5.a - sort common objects
L.K.5.d - distinguish meanings describing same action
L.K.6 - use words and phrases acquired through conversations
Cornelison
Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to
Listen by Howard Binkow
Wiggles Learns to Pay Attention by
Heidi Butkus (and the Wiggles series by
Heidi Butkus)
Bullies Never Win by Margery Cuyler
A to Z of Ps and Qs by Tracy Nelson
Maurer
Suggested web resources:
Lake.k12.fl.us/cms/lib05/fl01000799/Ce
ntricity/Domain/17/Kindergarten%20Res
ources.pdf
Embedded Assessment:
Describe how a good citizen behaves in the classroom and on the
playground.
SBAC Aligned Performance Task:
*Information in the uneditable portions of this template is considered “tight” (not to be changed).
Lancaster School District
Department of Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment
Unit Template A (Revised: 6/3/13)