ACCESS Science Concept Planner 3
Experience: Zookeepers Take Care of Animals
Experience: Learning animal movements through a YouTube
video
Standard: Describe, compare, sort, classify, and order.
Developmental Domain: Cognition and general knowledge
Experience: Interactive book about animal
movements
Standard: With modeling and support,
explore relationships between word meanings
(e.g., categories of objects, opposites, verbs
describing similar actions - walk, march,
prance, etc.). (Vocabulary)
Developmental Domain: Language &
Literacy
Experience: Predator or Prey Matching
Standard: With modeling and support,
identify and explore the relationship between
living things and their environments (e.g.,
habitats, food, eating habits, etc.). & Explain
reasoning for the solution selected.
Developmental Domain: Cognition
and General Knowledge
Experience: Food Chain Shuffle
Standard: Describe, compare, sort, classify,
and order. & With modeling and support, use
words acquired through conversations and
shared reading experiences. (Vocabulary)
Developmental Domain: Cognition and
General Knowledge & Language and Literacy
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Standard: With modeling and support, describe, categorize and compare and contrast
information in informational text. & Make inferences, generalizations and explanations based
on evidence.
Developmental Domain: Language and Literacy & Cognition and General
Knowledge
Experience: Animal Bathing
CONCEPT CONCEPT Standard: With modeling and support,
identify and explore the relationship between
Animal Movement How to Care for living things and their environments (e.g.,
Animals habitats, food, eating habits, etc.). & Show
regard for the feelings of other living things.
Developmental Domain: Cognition and
SCIENCE TOPIC General Knowledge & Social and Emotional
Development
Reference materials
Experience: Caterpillar Spring, Butterfly
are used to Summer
CONCEPT identify/inform the CONCEPT Standard: Use prior knowledge and
topic.
information to assess, inform, and plan for future
Food Web and learning; Coordinate the use of hands,
CONCEPT 3 fingers and wrists to manipulate objects and
Animals Features perform tasks requiring precise movements
Developmental Domain: Approaches
CONCEPT 3 Toward Learning; Physical Well-Being and Motor
Development
Experience: Similarities and Differences
Standard: Use language to communicate in a variety of ways with others to share
observations, ideas and experiences; problem-solve, reason, predict and seek new
information; Identify similarities and differences of personal, family and cultural
CONCEPT 3 characteristics, and those of others
Developmental Domain: Language and Literacy; Cognition and General Knowledge
CONCEPT 3