Kindergarten Lesson Resources
Inquiry:
Kindergarten students kick off the year with inquiry lessons centered around bubbles and a Sink or Float activity. They are able to explore using materials and hands on approaches in both lessons. With bubbles, students watch educators make bubbles “bounce” using gloves and then they too, have a chance to explore and bounce them as well, discovering what holds the bubbles together. With Sink and Float, students engage in a hands-on activity, finding out what materials sink and float, and learn how to come to conclusions based on experiments.
Life Science
Students focus on the difference between living and nonliving things as well as the needs of living things. They learn about nutrition for humans and food chains for the animal world. They also learn about the connection between habitats and the needs of living things being met within the habitat.
iPad Apps:
Max’s Plate - Explores the food groups.
Camera-Take pictures of living and non-living things. (Students can use pictures in Popplet)
Physical Science
Students focus on the magnets and the physics of the force of a push and pull. They learn about how things move and the effects of a ramp on motion. They engineer marble tracks and explore how to make a marble travel, including examining the speed and direction.
iPad Apps:
Sink or Float
Bubble Ball
Amazing Alex
Earth and Space Science
The main focus for kindergarten students is to look at the sun and how its warmth can affect the Earth. Students also explore weather elements and weather forecasting.
Cat in the Hat Interactive Website on weather and climate
Engineering Lessons
Our engineering lessons for Kindergarten are intertwined into their science lessons. Below is a list of some of the engineering activities:
Create a lego rammer to explore motion.
Mixing colors
Design a product to reduce the warming effect of sunlight
Energy Unit
Kindergarten students focus on recycling during this unit. They identify what items can be recycled They create new crayons out of old crayons using molds and the oven. They make paper out of recycled newspaper or paper scraps and then use their crayons and paper to make a card for their mother on Mother’s Day.