Curriculum Guides

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Content Area: Measurement

Skills: Temperature (hot/cold)

Prerequisites:

Instructional Practices: Problem Solving, Communication, Reasoning and Connections to the World.

Materials Needed: Big books: "What Makes the Weather" by: Janet Palazzo, and/or "Cats, Hats, Socks, and Mittens" by: Louise Borden or any other appropriate books on the Four Seasons. Poster boards, an inside moveable cardboard thermometer to show temperature degrees and an outside working thermometer, and a red marker.

Technology:

Activity: Read big books on the four seasons. Talk about what type of clothing you wear when it is hot; when it is cold. Use a teacher-helper thermometer that you can move the temperature gage to show the daily temperature. Students check the outside thermometer and set the inside thermometer to the current temperature and chart it on a teacher-made graph. There is a new graph for each month. Talk about the months that were hot and the months that were cold.

Theme Ideas: The Four Seasons, The Weather