In the last unit, students explored the relationship between vibrations and sound. In this unit, students continue to explore the phenomena of human senses, focusing on how objects can be seen when they are illuminated by a source of light, and how light passes through opaque, transparent, and translucent materials differently. Students then investigate how a beam of light changes when it hits a mirror.
In the last unit, students explore how objects can be seen when they are illuminated by a source of light and how light passes through opaque, transparent, and translucent materials differently. In this unit, students apply what they have learned about light and sound to design a solution that can be used to communicate over a distance.
In the last unit, students explored how shelters help animals survive in their environment. In this unit, students investigate the relationship between forces and motion, building propeller cars to observe action-reaction forces, the relationship between the distance their car travels and the amount of force applied, and how friction affects motion.
In this unit, students explore how forces cause an object’s motion to change. They begin by exploring how objects move in different directions when they are pushed or pulled, and then investigate how changing the strength of a force changes the distance an object moves.
In the final unit of Kindergarten, students explore how forces and how different factors can affect an object’s motion. They explore how objects move in different directions when they are pushed or pulled, and then investigate how changing the strength of a force changes the distance an object moves. Finally, students discover how friction can change motion.
In this unit, students discover that pushes and pulls are forces that change the motion of an object. They begin by exploring how objects move in different directions when they are pushed or pulled, and then investigate how changing the strength of a force changes the distance an object moves. They then use a model to see how friction affects the distance and speed with which an object moves over a surface.
In this unit, students use propeller cars to explore the science phenomena of forces. They investigate action-reaction forces and see if a propeller car travels farther when its rubber band releases a smaller or larger force. Students then explore how friction affects motion by testing how far their car moves after rolling over smooth and rough surfaces.
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