Kindergarten Science Practice

Students discover what animals need to live and grow: food, water, air, and shelter, with examples from pets, farm animals, and wildlife.

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Students explore day and night, sun and moon, light and dark, and sort activities that happen when the sky is bright versus dark.

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Students name the five senses, match each to body parts, and connect senses to everyday examples like seeing colors, hearing bells, smelling flowers, tasting sweet/sour, and feeling textures.

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Students learn that habitats are places where animals live and meet their needs, matching animals to forest, ocean, desert, and pond environments.

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Students tell living things from nonliving things using clues like growth, needs, and change. Examples include pets, plants, rocks, and toys.

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Students describe everyday objects using properties like color, size, shape, rough/smooth, heavy/light, hard/soft, and transparent/opaque.

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Students learn plant needs (water, light, air, soil) and basic parts (root, stem, leaf, flower) with simple jobs and classroom care examples.

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Students explore pushes and pulls as forces that start, stop, or change motion, with examples from playgrounds, doors, balls, and wagons.

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Students learn the four seasons and match signs like flowers in spring, heat in summer, falling leaves in fall, and snow in winter.

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Students observe and describe daily weather using words like sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy, and snowy, and choose clothing and safe actions that match conditions.

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Students notice fur, feathers, and scales and sort animals into simple groups such as mammal, bird, fish, and insect with picture support.

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Students investigate rocks, soil, sand, and water as Earth materials, naming places they are found and simple uses for each.

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Students discover that magnets attract some metal objects, test classroom items safely, and sort magnetic versus not magnetic with teacher support.

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Students predict and test whether common objects sink or float in water, then record results using simple charts and sorts.

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Students explore water as a liquid and ice as a solid, and describe melting and freezing with everyday classroom examples.

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Students learn simple ways to help Earth: recycle, reuse, avoid litter, and save water.

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Students explore light sources and learn that shadows appear when light is blocked.

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