Has your school adopted the new NGSS science standards? Mine has and this year, we are creating our own curriculum to fit with these new standards. My team has come up with ways we can best teach these standards in a fun and engaging way, without breaking the bank. We’ve combined a few different resources and come up with some of our own ideas to create a unique curriculum to teach our students.
What are the new standards?
Kindergarten topics:
- Motion and Stability
- Earth Systems
- Energy
- Weather and Climate
- Living Things
- Engineering Design
You can check out the all the NGSS standards through this website.
Teaching the Standards
I’ve pulled together a few resources to help in my transition to NGSS standards without spending too much money. The two main resources I’ll be using this year are Better Lesson and an interactive notebook that my team and I found on TpT.
- Better Lesson – This website is amazing because it has a TON of free lessons and resources. In searching this website, I found a teacher whose lesson plans I will mainly stick with this year. Her name is Joyce Baumann and she has 10 kindergarten science units all packed with experiments and activities. Check out her page here!
- Interactive Notebook – I’ll be using this interactive notebook as an additional component to the experiments and activities I found through Better Lesson. This resource is from The Barefoot Teacher and comes with 6 units that go along with the new standards.
I’m using a mix between these two resources along with some creations I’ve made to make this transition as smooth as possible. I love teaching science and I am thrilled with the change in standards!
Another free resource I will incorporate is Mystery Science. This website also has many interactive activities and experiments.
Example Unit
Check out my plans for my first unit in science! This freebie includes my overall plans, bullet points for each lesson, and interactive notebook pages that coincide with the experiments in Better Lesson.
My 5 Senses Curriculum Freebie
Other Resources
What resources do you use to teach the NGSS standards?
