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TK SAMPLE LESSONS

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Lesson Name and Description
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​Nature Rangers
Students become “Nature Rangers” as they embark upon an exploratory adventure in the school garden.  This lesson provides students with the opportunity to develop their observational skills, learn how to use garden tools safely, and plant seedlings.
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Alignment with California State Standards

Next Generation Science Standard:    ​K-ESS3  Earth and Human Activity
Framework for K-12 Science Education:   ​
  • Science & Engineering Practices: Asking Questions and Defining Problems
  • Ask questions based on observations to find more information about the designed world.
Disciplinary Core Ideas
  • ETS1.A  Defining and Delimiting an Engineering Problem
  • Asking questions, making observations, and gathering information are helpful in thinking about problems.​
Crosscutting Concepts
  • Influence of Engineering, Technology, and Science on Society and the Natural World
  • ​People depend on various technologies in their lives; human life would be very different without technology
Lesson Name and Description
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Garden Snacks
Students learn about how a garden grows, identify different parts of a plant, and are introduced to edible plant parts.
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Alignment with California State Standards

Next Generation Science Standard: 
  • K-LS1-1  Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
Framework for K-12 Science Education:   
  • Science & Engineering Practices:  Analyzing and Interpreting Data
Disciplinary Core Ideas:  
  • LS1.C  Organization for Matter and Energy Flow in Organisms
Crosscutting Concepts:  Patterns
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