This is a small group session that focuses on science concepts for kindergarten students. This session is led by a highly qualified teacher that interacts with the students online. Our small groups for this course are typically around 5 students. We use a parent survey to answer questions about their child and their learning needs as well as how they learn best. This allows us to group students in a session appropriately. Sessions are 60 minutes in length and meet once a week.
These sessions are personalized for your child’s learning. The are specially designed to be purposeful and focused instruction that allows your child the ability to interact and learn directly with a live teacher, but without sitting for hours at a time on the computer. Each instructor tailors and provides students with structured work off-screen which allows them to develop their independence apply their knowledge in meaningful way. This goal is to promote positive and continuous learning outcomes that build confidence and success for each child.
If they ever have a question, we offer active support from a certified teacher for students enrolled in this course 5 days a week during 9am-7pm EST .
Concepts taught include but are not limited to:
Forces and Interactions: Pushes and Pulls
Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object.
Analyze data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull.
Interdependent Relationships in Ecosystems: Animals, Plants, and Their Environment
Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to survive.
Construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs.
Use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants and animals (including humans) and the places they live.
Communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.
Weather and Climate
Make observations to determine the effect of sunlight on Earth’s surface
Use tools and materials to design and build a structure that will reduce the warming effect of sunlight on an area.
Use and share observations of local weather conditions to describe patterns over time.
Ask questions to obtain information about the purpose of weather forecasting to prepare for, and respond to, severe weather.
Engineering Design
Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.