STC–Kindergarten™: Exploring Plants and Animals Two-Use Unit Kit

Grade K. The 2-use unit kit for Exploring Plants and Animals includes a teacher's guide, STC Literacy Series™ Big Book, Smithsonian DVD, digital access to Carolina Science Online®, and supplies and apparatus to teach the unit to 24 students twice. During the unit, students explore how living things are different from non-living things. They then focus on plants—their structures, their needs, their life cycles—and plant seeds to observe later in the unit. Students shift their focus to animals and explore the similarities and differences between animals and their environments. Students set up habitats for zebra fish and milkweed bugs and observe the animals over time. Finally, students explore the impact that humans have on the environment, particularly as related to trash and recycling, and also observe the effects of pollution on plants. In a post-unit assessment, students compare and contrast plants and animals, and explore and describe interactions between plants and animals within the same environment.