Kindergarten

NON-STANDARD MEASUREMENT

Description:

Can you measure with a toothpick?  Students will measure everyday objects without using a ruler.

Non-Standard Measurement Unit Data Sheet

HOW DOES A PENGUIN STAY WARM?

CLASS SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT

Description:

Students use shortening to act as penguin blubber in a class science fair project.

How Does A Penguin Stay Warm Unit

EXPLORING SCIENCE TOOLS

Description:

Kindergarten scientists make predictions and test them with a balance and a graduated cylinder.

Exploring Science Tools Unit

Data Sheet

SENSE OF TASTE, HEARING, SMELL AND TOUCH

Description:

Hearing, smelling, taste, and touch are investigated as students solve mysteries using their senses.

Sense of Taste, Hearing, Smell and Touch Unit

• Diagrams
• Student Senses Sheet

SPRING NATURE WALK

Description:

Students look for signs of spring outdoors and explore how shadows and soil form.

Spring Nature Walk Unit

• Spring Walk Observations

FALL NATURE WALK

Description:

Students take a fall nature walk and use their senses to explore nature in the fall.  Later in the year, compare this to a spring nature walk.

Fall Nature Walk Unit

• Favorite Leaf description

EXPLORING COLOR AND THE SENSE OF SIGHT

Description:

Color is explored using color paddles, diffraction glasses, and mixing primary colors to form secondary colors in test tubes.

Color and the Sense of Sight Unit

• Primary Color Sheet

ANIMAL CLASSIFICATION

Description:

Classifying animals in kindergarten begins with sorting them as to where they live, what outer covering they have, and their type of appendage.

Animal Classification Unit

• Animal Sorting Pages
• What Am I Assessment

MEALWORM LIFE CYCLE

Description:

Each student creates a habitat for a mealworm that they will care for as it progresses through its life cycle.

Mealworm Life Cycle Unit

• Mealworm Journal

SENSE OF TASTE, HEARING, SMELL AND TOUCH

Description:

Hearing, smelling, taste, and touch are investigated as students solve mysteries using their senses.

Sense of Taste, Hearing, Smell and Touch Unit

• Diagrams
• Student Senses Sheet

SPRING NATURE WALK

Description:

Students look for signs of spring outdoors and explore how shadows and soil form.

Spring Nature Walk Unit

• Spring Walk Observations