Learning Objectives
In writing this unit, I hope to provide a purposeful and explicit pathway through which my kindergarten students are able to study pollination as a natural system. I’ve entitled it Pollination Party as an inviting and fun way to introduce the many roles, activities, and community members that are a part of the process of pollination. I want to explore topics that expose my kindergarteners to explicit scientific knowledge and model a One Health approach in caring for the health of our local environment at school. In this way, we are working on building academic and social-emotional skills, which heavily impact the kindergarten setting because it can be the first true school experience for many students. By focusing on pollination, I hope to provide a clear example of a system that students may be familiar with, such as bees and flowers, and build on the visible and invisible ways we interact with pollination at school. The health of our pollinators directly impacts our own health!
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