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Kindergarten

Kindergarten

High Priority Standards (Missouri Learning Standards, National, CREDE, etc.)

Missouri Learning Standard K.PS3.B.1

Learning Goal
Students can use tools and materials to design and build a structure that will reduce the warming effect of sunlight on an area.

 

Proficiency Scale
4: Student demonstrates advanced application and understanding of weather and climate.

3: Student demonstrates mastery with the learning goal as evidenced by:

  • designing and building a structure that reduces warming caused by the sun.
  • describing whether the structure meets the expectations in terms of cause (structure blocks sunlight) and effect (less warming of the surface).

2: Student demonstrates he/she is nearing proficiency by:

  • designing and building a structure with guidance and support.
  • describing that the structure is expected to reduce warming for a designed area by providing shade.

1:  Student demonstrates limited understanding of weather and climate.

Learning Targets- Weather and Climate Unit

Science and Engineering Practices

  • Design and build a model device, using provided tools and materials, to reduce the warming effect of sunlight. 
  • Generate and compare multiple solutions to the engineering challenge.

Disciplinary Core Idea
Recall that sunlight warms Earth’s surface

Cross Cutting Concept
Generalize that the shielding or reduction of direct sunlight will result in reducing the warming effect of sunlight and that, conversely, an increase in direct sunlight will result in increasing the warming effect.