May / June 2025
Too Hot to Play!
Extend the Lesson
Videos (2)
Videos (2)
Games (1)
Skill-Building Sheets
Academic Standards
Reading Objective:
Students will discover how kids at one school tested a solution for keeping their playground cool.
Social and Life Skills:
health and safety, summer safety
Science Focus:
heat absorption and reflection, scientific process
ELA Skills:
key details, vocabulary, writing, create visuals
Page 4 Skill:
double bar graph
Vocabulary:
asphalt, absorb, reflect, compared
CCSS:
RI.2.1 key details; RI.2.2 identify main topic; RI.2.3 describe steps in a procedure; W.2.8 writing; SL.2.1 collaborative conversations
Lexile level:
530L