Kindergarten

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Health, Family and Consumer Science

  • NEW! Dora & Diego—Let's Explore! Expedition

    Ready, set, explore! Students fill imaginary backpacks before heading out on adventures in the interactive Dora & Diego—Let’s Explore! exhibit. Students practice their explorer skills and use their linguistic, musical, and physical abilities as they play in Isa’s Flowery Garden, gather nuts with Tico, and help baby animals in the Rainforest Maze.

    1 hour
    Health 1, SL.PK.1, SL.K.1, SL.1.1, Arts 1

    Available October 1 through December 19, 2012

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  • Healthy Beginnings

    Students use dramatic play, movement, and math skills to determine what foods keep people healthy and strong. Dressing in the colors of the symbols from the USDA’s “MyPlate” food and exercise guide, students discover what each symbol reveals about healthy eating. After shopping in Super Kids Market, students create healthy and balanced snacks by playing an interactive food group game.

    1 hour
    Health 1, PK.MD.2, K.MD.2
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Math

  • NEW! LEGO Travel Adventure Expedition

    If students can imagine it, they can build it! Students explore, build, and play in the interactive LEGO Travel Adventure exhibit. Inspired by what they have seen while exploring, students design a vehicle using one of the greatest building materials of all time—LEGO bricks. 

    1 hour
    PK.G.6, K.G.6

    Available January 22 through May 10, 2013

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  • Bear Bucks: Beginning Economics

    The Berenstain Bears exhibit provides a bustling environment with Mama Bear’s Quilt Shop, Papa Bear’s Woodworking Shop, the Bear Family Restaurant, Farmer Ben’s Farm, and Dr. Bearson’s Dentist Office. Using Bear Bucks withdrawn from the bank, students role-play the parts of business owners and consumers. This is a fun way for students to apply basic math skills of dollar denominations, adding, subtracting, and beginning multiplication.

    1 hour
    K.CC.2, 1.OA.1, 1.OA.2, 1.OA.5, 2.OA.1, 2.OA.2, CDOS 2
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Language Arts

  • Ernie's Alphabet

    Ernie has lost his letters! Students help Ernie find his letters by using environmental clues to point the way to where they are hidden in the Sesame Street exhibit. During their search, students practice letter identification and letter-sound recognition. This lesson can be expanded to include word-building and word-play.

    1 hour
    RF.PK.1, RF.K.3
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  • Who Dunnit?

    A mystery at the Mystery Mansion needs to be solved and your students are the detectives! Through deductive reasoning, prediction, mapping skills, and collaboration, detectives use their clues to crack the code of “Who Dunnit?” in the captivating mystery section of Reading Adventureland.

    1 hour
    RL.K.1, RL.K.3, RL.1.1, RL.1.3, RL.2.1, RL.2.3
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  • Once Upon a Time…

    Transform into a character from one of six stories in the dramatic fairy-tale section in Reading Adventureland: Little Red Riding Hood, The Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Three Little Pigs, or Cinderella. Students become the cast as they select a setting, retell, and reenact one of the above classic tales.

    1 hour
    RL.K.1, RL.K.2, RL.1.1, RL.1.2, RL.2.1, RL.2.2, Arts 1
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  • Wings of Fantasy

    Inspired by the fantastical costumes in the Wizard’s Wardrobe, a magic wand, or an original potion created in the Alchemist’s Laboratory in the fantasy section of Reading Adventureland, students develop a fantasy character. The Wing Shop by Elvira Woodruff fuels creative imaginations as students decide on their character’s source of magical power, good deeds, and method of travel to unknown places.

    1 hour
    RL.K.1, RL.K.3, RL.1.1, RL.1.3, RL.2.1, RL.2.3, Arts 1
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Social Studies

  • Playthings and Pastimes from Long Ago

    What did children play with before the era of plastics, batteries, computers, and videos? Students visit One History Place to learn about early 20th-century America by role-playing the games and pastimes of this bygone era.

    1 hour
    SS 1, Arts 1
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Science

  • Very Hungry Butterflies

    What do butterflies do when they are hungry? Students explore this and other questions as they observe real butterflies in Dancing Wings Butterfly Garden. Eric Carle’s book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, is the springboard for this imaginative experience. Children focus on the butterfly stage of the life cycle and take on the role of butterflies in a fun movement activity.

    1 hour
    RI.PK.2, RI.K.2, RI.1.2, ST 4, Arts 1
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