Kindergarten Physical Science Centers

The “Science Kids” series of packets is intended to help teachers implement developmentally appropriate, hands-on science activities for children in Preschool, Kindergarten and the early grades. The activities in these packets are based on the scientific method and encourage inquiry-based learning.

(*Save money by purchasing the entire Year Long Science Curriculum in one bundle.)

This bundle contains enough science activities to fill the third quarter of the school year (About 8 weeks)

Freezing and Melting:

Investigations in this unit include:

★ "Ice Treasures"

★ "Light or Dark?"

★ "Adding Salt and Color"

★"Ice Cube Race"

★ "Which is Heavier?"

★ "Oil and Ice"

★ "Painting with Ice"

The final investigation in this unit is a student-designed investigation that will test how certain ingredients affect the time it takes an ice cube to melt.

The packet also includes a fun recipe for Ice Cream in a Bag! (And the scientific explanation for how this recipe works.)

My Human Body

As we make the life size body model, the students will learn about:

★ The skeletal system (bones)

★ The respiratory system (lungs)

★ The muscular system (muscles)

★ The cardiovascular system (heart, veins and arteries)

★ The digestive system (stomach and intestines)

★ The nervous system (spine and brain)

This packet also includes a printable book: “My Amazing Body” (black and white)

Suggestions for additional activities are included (including printable activities)

Music and Vibration

As they learn about vibrations and sound, the students will explore the following hands-on topics:

★ "Balloon Drums"

★ "Seeing Sound Vibrations"

★ "Cardboard Kazoos"

★ "Spoon Sounds"

★ "Rubber Band Guitars"

★ "Buzzing Balloons"

The two-week unit will conclude with the students creating their own unique instruments.

This unit also includes pocket chart word cards for many common percussion instruments.

Shadows and Light

Ten hands-on lessons about shadows are included:

★ Discovering Shadows

★ Outdoor Shadows

★ Is a Shadow Always Black?

★ A Moving Shadow

★ Big and Small Shadows

★ Shadow Detectives

★ Multiple Shadows

★ Shadow Tracings

★ Shadow Charades

★ A Shadow Show (Reflecting on What We've Learned)

This unit also includes extension activities and printables.

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Are you looking for high-quality, engaging science worksheets that are developmentally appropriate for your kindergarten or first-grade students? This kindergarten and first-grade set of science worksheets is loaded with over 100 Science Topics that you can use throughout the year and it is aligned with many of the Next Generation Science Standards. This is exactly what you need. Your students will love showing off their knowledge as they explore and learn about a variety of topics. You choose the order of science topics that makes the most sense for your class.

Key Features:

✔Over 100 science topics

✔Alligned with Next Generation Science Standards

✔Foster Scientific Foundational Skills and build scientific vocabulary

✔ Reinforce and assess the science topics presented in class

✔ Conduct Science Experiments using the Scientific Method

✔ Decorate your class with informative Anchor Chart Science Posters

✔ can be in Print form to use in a notebook or use it on any Digital Device

✔ Engages students' curiosity as they explore the world around them.

Please check out the preview to get a better look at more sample pages.

This Set of Science Worksheets includes the following:

-Scientist's Tools

-Types of Scientists

-Scientific Method

-Five Senses

-Color Wheel to recognize primary and secondary colors

-Mixing Colors to make new colors

WEATHER

-The Four Seasons

-Types of Weather

-Weather Calendar

-Weather Graph

-Weather Forecasting Tools

-Rainbows

-Rainbow Experiment

-Types of Clouds

-Cloud Experiment

-Water Cycle

-What Melts in the Sun? (Experiment)

-temperature

LIFE CYCLES

-Life Cycle of an Apple Tree

-Life Cycle of a Pumpkin

-Life Cycle of a Butterfly

-Life Cycle of a Frog

-Life Cycle of a Bee

-Life Cycle of an Ant

-Life Cycle of a Sunflower

UP IN THE SKY

-Day and Night Sky

-Phases of the Moon

-Phases of the Moon Calendar

-Constellations

-Planets in our Solar System

-Rotation of the earth as it travels around the sun

-Fun Sun Fact Sheet

-Engaging Cootie Catchers for Phases of the Moon and Planets in our Solar System

EARTH SCIENCE

-Earth's Layers

-Examining Rocks

-Types of Rocks

-Types of Soil

-Examining Seashells

-Needs and Wants

-Bodies of Water

-Where Does it Come From?

-Who Made It?

-Materials Hunt

-Land Formations

AMAZING ANIMALS

-What Animals Need to Survive

-Adult Animals and Baby Animals Match

-Sort Animals by Where They Live

-Diurnal and Nocturnal Animal Sort

-Carnivores, Omnivores, Herbivores

-Animals that Hibernate

-Animals that Migrate

-Bird Watching

-Animal Movement

-Life Cycles

-Animal Speed (fast or slow animals)

-Animal Features

-Oviparous vs. Viviparous

-Dinosaurs

-Several Animal Diagrams to include(beavers, tigers, elephants, giraffes & 6 More)

-Food Chain

-Label woodland animals

-Label grassland animals

-Label Arctic animals

-Label rainforest animals.

-Label sea creatures

-Label insects

-Label birds

-Diagram of a butterfly

LIVING THINGS

-Label A Flower

-Plants Need...

-Living and Nonliving

-What Makes an Insect?

-Leaf exploration

-Types of leaves and trees

HUMAN BODY

-Label a Human Skeleton

-Label a Human Heart

-Human Body Systems

-Human Body Organs

-Finger Prints

-Finger Print Experiment

STAYING HEALTHY

-Food Pyramid, sorting four major food groups

-A Healthy Meal

-healthy vs. unhealthy foods

-Germs Experiment

-Washing Hands

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

-Illuminates Light vs. Does not Illuminate Light

-Define Transparent, Translucent, Opaque

-Can Light Pass-Through?

-Light Sources Sort (man-made, natural)

-Sound Sort

-Things That Are Used to Vibrate

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

-Sources of Energy (heat, light, sound)

-The States of Matter

-Push and Pull

-Laws of Motion by Isaac Newton

-Simple Machines

-Magnetic/ Not Magnetic

-Sink or Float

-Which is Heavier?

-Balance the Scale

-Who made this?

-Materials Hunt

♻️TAKING CARE OF PLANET EARTH

-Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

-Things to Recycle-(plastic, paper, glass, metal)

EXPERIMENTS

(easy and fun with things that you can find and are readily available in a classroom or at home)

**-**phases of the moon

-erosion

-ramp exploration

-ice cube investigation

-Ballon experiment

-Static electricity

-Shadows experiment

-Air pressure

-String Telephone

and more

-Answer Key/ Posters, Fact Sheets, KWL Chart

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Practice preschool skills with this transportation themed preschool activity bundle. This bundle includes a wide variety of center activities, worksheets and games specifically for preschool and pre-k.

What is Included:

Alphabet Clip Cards

Alphabet Puzzles and Cards

Counting Mats 1-20

Counting Clip Cards

Tracing Lines Center

Worksheet and Activity Packet

Science Activities

Shape Road Mats

Alphabet Playdough Mats

Related Links:

Winter Themed Preschool Bundle

Groundhog's Day Themed Preschool Bundle

The “Science Kids” series of packets is intended to help teachers implement developmentally appropriate, hands-on science activities for children in Preschool, Kindergarten and the early grades. The activities in these packets are based on the scientific method and encourage inquiry-based learning.

The "First Quarter" bundle contains enough science activities to fill the first quarter of the school year (About 8 weeks) and supports Next Generation Science Standard K-PS2.

Unit 1- “What do Scientists do?” helps students learn how to be scientists. Every activity in this packet is aligned with one of the five stages of scientific inquiry. The packet includes:

Color posters of the five stages of scientific inquiry

Explanation of the stages of scientific inquiry for teachers

A two-week long, step-by step scientific investigation about balls and wagons

Printable scientific recording sheets for tracking hypotheses and data

Discussion guide

Ideas for sharing student learning

Unit 2- “Floating and Sinking” is designed to help students learn the concepts of buoyancy and water displacement. They will also begin to understand that the size and shape of an object affects its ability to float. Included in this packet are:

Five sinking and floating investigations, with directions and recording sheets

Guide for helping students plan their own individual investigations

Guides for forming hypotheses and reflecting on students' learning

Guide for sharing student learning

Tips and helpful suggestions

Unit 3- “Color Mixing” includes instructions for all of these hands-on, scientific investigations:

"Paint Mixing" Investigation

"Color and Water" Investigation

"Bubbling Color" Investigation

"Colored Lights" Investigation

"Wandering Water" Investigation

"Spinning Color Wheel" Investigation

"Coffee Filter Chromatography" Investigation

"Invent Your Own Color" final investigation

Printables, including:

Color Wheel

Recording sheets for investigations

Reflection and Planning Questions

Unit 4- “Magnets” includes instructions for all of these investigations:

“Magnetic or Not Magnetic?”

“The Magic Paper Clip”

“Magnet Cars”

“A String of Paper Clips”

“Magnet Train”

“Magnet Detectives”

The packet also includes:

Printable recording sheets for investigations

Guide for helping students develop independent investigations

Tips and helpful suggestions

Are you looking for high-quality, engaging science resources that are developmentally appropriate for your kindergarten or first-grade students? This kindergarten and first-grade science interactive notebook is loaded with over 100 Science Topics that you can use throughout the year and it is aligned with many of the Next Generation Science Standards. This is exactly what you need. Your students will love showing off their knowledge as they explore and learn about a variety of topics in an organized way all yearlong. You will love the simplicity of this Science Interactive Notebook as the lines are simple and easy to cut. Students simply cut on dotted lines and fold on solid lines. You choose the order of science topics that makes the most sense for your class.

Key Features:

✔Over 100 science topics

✔Alligned with Next Generation Science Standards

✔Foster Scientific Foundational Skills and build scientific vocabulary

✔ Reinforce and assess the science topics presented in class

✔ Conduct Science Experiments using the Scientific Method

✔ Decorate your class with informative Anchor Chart Science Posters

✔ can be in Print form to use in a notebook or use it on any Digital Device

✔ Engages students' curiosity as they explore the world around them.

Please check out the preview or video to get a better look at more sample pages.

This Science Interactive Notebook includes the following:

-table of contents

-Scientist's Tools

-Types of Scientists

-Scientific Method

-Five Senses

-Color Wheel to recognize primary and secondary colors

-Mixing Colors to make new colors

WEATHER

-The Four Seasons

-Types of Weather

-Weather Calendar

-Weather Graph

-Weather Forecasting Tools

-Rainbows

-Rainbow Experiment

-Types of Clouds

-Cloud Experiment

-Water Cycle

-What Melts in the Sun? (Experiment)

-temperature

LIFE CYCLES

-Life Cycle of a Human

-Life Cycle of an Apple Tree

-Life Cycle of a Pumpkin

-Life Cycle of a Butterfly

-Life Cycle of a Frog

-Life Cycle of a Chicken

-Life Cycle of a Bee

-Life Cycle of an Ant

-Life Cycle of a Sunflower

UP IN THE SKY

-Day and Night Sky

-Phases of the Moon

-Phases of the Moon Calendar

-Constellations

-Planets in our Solar System

-Rotation of the earth as it travels around the sun

-Fun Sun Fact Sheet

EARTH SCIENCE

-Earth's Layers

-Examining Rocks

-Types of Rocks

-Types of Soil

-Examining Seashells

-Needs and Wants

-Bodies of Water

-Where Does it Come From?

-Who Made It?

-Materials Hunt

-Land Formations

AMAZING ANIMALS

-What Animals Need to Survive

-Adult Animals and Baby Animals Match

-Sort Animals by Where They Live

-Diurnal and Nocturnal Animal Sort

-Carnivores, Omnivores, Herbivores

-Animals that Hibernate

-Animals that Migrate

-Bird Facts

-Bird Watching

-Animal Movement

-Animal Speed (fast or slow animals)

-Animal Features

-Oviparous vs. Viviparous

-Dinosaurs

-Several Animal Diagrams to include(beavers, tigers, elephants, giraffes & 6 More)

-Food Chain

-Label woodland animals

-Label grassland animals

-Label Arctic animals

-Label rainforest animals.

-Label sea creatures

-Label insects

-Diagram of a butterfly

-Butterfly symmetry

-Diagram of a robin

LIVING THINGS

-Label A Flower

-Plants Need...

-Living and Nonliving

-What Makes an Insect?

-Leaf exploration

-Types of leaves and trees

HUMAN BODY

-Label a Human Skeleton

-Label a Human Heart

-Human Body Systems

-Human Body Organs

-Finger Prints

-Finger Print Experiment

STAYING HEALTHY

-Food Pyramid, sorting four major food groups

-A Healthy Meal

-healthy vs. unhealthy foods

-Germs Experiment

-Washing Hands

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

-Illuminates Light vs. Does not Illuminate Light

-Define Transparent, Translucent, Opaque

-Can Light Pass-Through?

-Light Sources Sort (man-made, natural)

-Sound Sort

-Things That Are Used to Vibrate

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

-Sources of Energy (heat, light, sound)

-The States of Matter

-Push and Pull

-Laws of Motion by Isaac Newton

-Simple Machines

-Magnetic/ Not Magnetic

-Sink or Float

-Which is Heavier?

-Balance the Scale

-Who made this?

-Materials Hunt

♻️TAKING CARE OF PLANET EARTH

-Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

-Things to Recycle-(plastic, paper, glass, metal)

EXPERIMENTS

(easy and fun with things that you can find and are readily available in a classroom or at home)

**-**phases of the moon

-erosion

-ramp exploration

-ice cube investigation

-Ballon experiment

-Static electricity

-Shadows experiment

-Air pressure

-String Telephone

and more

-Answer Key/ Posters, Fact Sheets, KWL Chart

-Sample pages of the final product

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***Newly Revised July 2024 to include even more topics and science experiments****This product can also be used in a digital platform for remote learning on Easel. Please watch the preview. At the end of the video, you will see a glimpse of how this can be implemented for virtual learning. The directions are changed to make it easy for the students to use on a device. You can change the directions to meet the individual needs of your student on the digital overlay. Several updates were made to save you lots of time for teachers to easily implement this product for virtual learning. You now have the choice of printing this out to use in a notebook or use for online learning in Google Classroom. ****

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These science sorts are perfect for a quick assessment or for letting students use in a science center.

The following sorts are available in this packet:

• Animal Classifications
• Animal Features
• Animal Habitats
• Carnivores and Herbivores
• Living and Nonliving Things
• Man Made and Natural Resources
• Needs and Wants
• Nocturnal and Diurnal Animals
• Recycling
• Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources
• Solids, Liquids and Gases
• The Plants We Eat

The “Science Kids” packets are designed to help students learn to think like scientists and begin to understand the process of scientific inquiry. This packet supports Next Generation Science Standard K-2-ETS1.

(*Save money by purchasing the entire Year Long Science Curriculum in one bundle.)

This bundle includes:

Kitchen Chemistry- Students will learn:

*Properties of Matter (The ingredients used in the investigations have different properties)

*Changes in States of Matter (The ingredients will change when combined with other ingredients)

Ramps – Students will learn:

*Some objects roll down ramps, while others slide.

*The height or texture of a ramp will change the distance and speed an object rolls.

*Changing the weight of an object will change the distance and speed it rolls down a ramp.

*An object will move around obstacles that are in its way as it rolls down a ramp

Mirrors and Reflections- Students will learn:

*Some surfaces are reflective and some are not

*Multiple mirrors can generate many images

*Mirrors can create symmetrical images

Gingerbread Man Science- Students will explore the following concepts:

*Dissolvability

*Buoyancy

*Bridge Construction

*Pendulums

*Properties of Waterproof and Non-waterproof Materials

The activities in this packet are designed to last for eight weeks, or one quarter of the traditional school year.

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