Standards and Objectives - Early Childhood

Color & Light Lesson

Class time: 1 hour
Time needed for set-up: 30 min
Target Age/Audience: 2 year olds thru 5 year olds

Goal
Students will be introduced to primary and secondary colors and experiment with color mixing.

Objectives

  • The rainbow is white light taken apart. We put colors back together using the primary colors.
  • There are three primary colors that you cannot make – red, blue and yellow.
  • Primary colors mix to make secondary colors – purple, green and orange.
  • Colors are always presented in the same order in the rainbow. 
  • Mixing primary colors makes many shades of the secondary colors.
  • We use colors to make visual art.


Standards
Tennessee

  • 1.1  Use selected tools and materials in a safe manner to create a work of art.
  • 1.2  Apply a variety of techniques and processes to produce original works of art that reflect personal experiences, imagination, and observations.
  • Creative Arts – Experiments with materials, explores different sensations; begins to make rudimentary objects.
  • Math – Explores materials and understands simple acts of cause & effect.
  • Begins to develop foundation for linking concepts and procedures with active experiences.
  • Science – Begins to build knowledge of the world through observation of surroundings.


Georgia

  • ELAKLSV1  The student uses oral and visual skills to communicate.
  • Pre-K
  • CD1 Children will explore & use a variety of materials to develop artistic expression.
  • LD3  Children will develop an understanding of new vocabulary introduced in conversation, activities,  stories or books.
  • SD1  Children will use processes of science to actively explore and increase understanding of the environment.

Exploring Sounds and Rhythms

Class time: 1 hour
Time Needed for set-up: 30 to 45 min.                   
Target Age/ Audience: Grades PreK - Kdg

Goal
Develop an understanding of rhythm, listening and patterning exercises to keep the beat. Introduce children to different ways you can make music using tone, color, and pitch with strings, percussion and wind instruments. They will work with identifying the beat of various sounds, and creating vibration sounds using various instruments.

Objectives

  • Students will have experience with a variety of  instruments
  • Students will explore and imitate animal movements.


Standards
Tennessee

  • GLE 0007.Inq.1 Observe the world of familiar objects using the senses and tools.
  • GLE 0007.1.1 Recognize that many things are made of parts.
  • GLE 0007.2.2 Know that people interact with their environment through their senses.

Georgia

  • LD 4 a Uses language for a variety of purposes
  • LD 4 c Uses complete sentences of increasing length in conversation
  • SD 1 c Uses language to describe observation
  • SD 1 d Uses simple equipment to experiment, observe, and increase understanding

Get Curious with Science

Class time: 1 hour
Time Needed for set-up: 30 to 45 min.                  
Target Age/ Audience: Grades PreK - Kdg

Goal
Develop problem solving skills while enjoying the literature of Margret & H. A. Rey’s books.  Explore the process of planning and development of solutions to simple questions.

Objectives

  • Provide an experience with literature that encourages activities.
  • Develop problem solving skills for later use in science
  • Explore the world of animals & habitats
  • Discover how simple machines work together to do work
  • Find out what a person needs in their home
  • Explore the properties of air
  • Follow directions to complete a task


Standards
Tennessee

  • GLE 0007.Inq.1 Observe the world of familiar objects using the senses and tools.
  • GLE 0007.Inq.2 Ask questions, make logical predictions, plan investigations, and represent data.
  • GLE 0007.Inq.3 Explain the data from an investigation.

Georgia

  • LD 4 a Uses language for a variety of purposes
  • LD 4 c Uses complete sentences of increasing length in conversation
  • SD 1 b Uses senses to observe, classify, and learn about objects
  • SD 1 c Uses language to describe observation
  • SD 1 d Uses simple equipment to experiment, observe, and increase understanding

Magnificent Machines

Class time: 1 hour
Time needed for set-up: 30 min
Target Age/Audience: 2 year olds thru 5 year olds

Goal
Children will experiment with simple machines and be introduced to the idea that simple machines make our work easier. They will see motion in action and how push & pull affects objects and direction.  They will also explore the effects of gravity on materials.

Objectives of the Lesson

  • Wheels help make our work easier by rolling around an axle.
  • Pulleys help us lift heavy loads.
  • Gears help machines move parts.
  • Inclined planes help us move things up and down.
  • Wedges help us break things apart.
  • Screws help hold things together.
  • Levers help lift things.

Standards
Tennessee

  • Begins to build knowledge of the world through observation of surroundings.
  • Understands questions, some abstract concepts and simple directions.
  • GLE 0007.1  Recognize that many things are made of parts.
  • GLE 0007.11.1 Explore different ways that objects move.

Georgia

  • LD3 – Children will develop an understanding of new vocabulary introduced in conversation, activities, stories, or books.
  • SD3 – Children will acquire scientific knowledge related to physical science.
  • SKP2 – Students will investigate different types of motion
  • SKP3 – Students will observe and communicate effects of gravity on objects.

Mysterious Magnets

Class Time: 1 hour   
Time needed for Set-up: 30 min
Target Audience: Ages 2 through 5

Goal
Allow students to explore magnets, how they work, and how we can use them to help us.

Objectives

  • Magnets are objects that can attract to certain objects or repel with other objects.
  • Magnets can come in many shapes and sizes, large or small.
  • Every magnet has two sides –a North Pole and a South Pole
  • Iron is the preferred metal of magnets to attract to.  Other metals that can attract to magnets include nickel, cobalt, and steel. 
  • Magnets are attracted to other magnets.  The opposite poles must face each other to attract; when the same poles face each other they will repel.
  • The space around the magnet is called the magnetic field.  Anything inside its field that is attracted to magnets will “stick” to the magnet.
  • Earth is like one big magnet.  It has a north and South Pole with tons of iron all around.  This is why a compass works on our planet.


Standards
Tennessee

  • 0001.2.3 Understand and follow simple two-step oral directions.
  • 0001.2.5 Use rules for conversation
  • 0001.4.3 Present the answers to a research question orally to the class
  • 11.1.1 Realize the basic concept that forces can move objects
  • 11.1.2 Observe and predict how the weight of an object and its position affect balance.

Georgia

  • SD 1c – Uses language to describe observations
  • SD 1d – Uses simple equipment to experiment, observe, and increase understanding.
  • SD 3b – Describes objects by their physical properties.
  • SD 3d – Investigates different types/speeds of motion.

Wonderful Weather

Class time: 1 hour
Time needed for set-up: 30 min                       
Target Age/Audience: 2 year olds thru 5 year olds

Goal
Provide an opportunity to handle weather instruments and discuss the concepts of seasons, how the weather changes, and how it affects the students.

Objective
This lesson is designed to give the children a hands-on experience with materials related to the weather and environment around them.  Students experience the concepts seasons and how they affect us, how they can know what the weather will be, and why clouds have different forms.

Standards
Tennessee 

  • 0001.1.9  Build vocabulary by reading, listening to, and discussing a variety of literature.
  • 0001.2.8  Participate in group discussion.
  • 0001.5.1 Develop an understanding of sequential events
  • 2.0.2.4 – Recognize that the environment and the organisms that live in it can be affected by pollution.
  • K.8.1 Recognize daily and seasonal weather changes
  • K.8.2. Realize that weather is associated with temperature, precipitation, and wind conditions and can be measured using tools and instruments.


Georgia

  • SD1  Children will use processes of science to actively explore and increase understanding of the environment.
  • SD2  Children will acquire scientific knowledge related to earth science
  • Investigates, compares, and contrasts seasonal changes in the immediate environment.
  • Discovers through observations that weather can change from day to day.