Pre-K Science Resources (by date, oldest first)

Students will cut out images of a butterfly in every stage of its life and paste the images in the correct order. This is a simple science lesson that will offer a visual to pair with a lesson on the life cycle. It could also be used as an assessment at the end of the lesson.

This no prep activity allows students to show what they've learned in the Parts of an Insect Emergent Reader or use it alone or as part of your own insect unit.

Students will sort crawly creatures into two categories: Insects or Not! A paragraph is included at the top to make sure the students remember just what makes an insect an insect.

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Choose between three versions of this "All about Insects" emergent reader! The booklet will have 8 pages total (including the cover). The first version has all words printed. The second has words printed in a dotted font so they can trace certain words. The third has fill-in-the-blank sections for students to answer as they follow along in your lesson (use the copy with all words printed as your guide). Mix and match the booklets to best fit the needs of your students. The clip art from David's Simple Teaching is the perfect blend of kid-friendly and realistic. Great for elementary and special education.

Use with my Parts of an Insect Worksheet for a quick, easy, and fun NO PREP assessment. Then, let them put their knowledge to work with an insect sorting activity!

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Turn Easter Peeps into a fun play dough! Includes recipe and investigation report. More information can be found in my blog post here!

We hope you enjoy our FREE Autumn Mindfulness Hunt. Get outside and connect with nature! Download our FREE Autumn Mindfulness Hunt now!

Ask the children to use this worksheet to to record what they SEE, HEAR, SMELL and FEEL as they walk outside on a nice Autumn day.

Recommended sequence

1. Review the 5 senses.

2. Take a moment to tune in, breathe, and just be.

3. Give instructions for how to quietly be in the outside world, using keen observation and a relaxed mind to fill in this chart.

4. Give plenty of time for students to draw or write their findings.

5. Come together as a group and find out what people observed and any impact it had on them.

Tips for your mindfulness nature walk

1. Walk at a natural, slow pace. Take your time to take in the beauty of nature around you. Look around you. Notice the trees around you. Are they starting to change colors? Are they losing their leaves?
2. Take in deep breaths through your nose. Shift your awareness to your smell. What do you smell? Does it smell earthy? Do you smell the leaves around you?
3. Listen. What do you hear? Are there animals bustling around? Do you hear the leaves crunching underneath your feet?
4. Pick up a few leaves. How do they feel? Are they starting to decompose? Are they crunchy? What color are they?
5. Shift your attention back to walking. Feel the physical sensation of walking. One foot up, one foot down. Notice your feet touching the ground. How do you feel?
6. At the end of your walk, pause and take a moment. Stand still and take in a deep breath. Take a look around and notice your feelings.

Looking for fun, no-prep activities to add to your classroom or homeschool? These cut, sort, and paste activity worksheets are perfect for learning about animal habitats, practicing scissor skills, for sorting centers, as morning work or for early finishers!

Part of the "What Belongs?" Series, the Places unit covers 6 places/habitats. Each place/habitat comes with a full color sorting worksheet, two versions of the worksheet in black and white, plus a "what is missing" worksheet where students complete a picture. This set also includes multiple place/habitat sorting worksheets so students can compare two or four places or habitats at once. Please see the preview above for a look at all the included worksheets!

Includes activities for the following places or habitats: forest, ocean, Arctic, farm, beach, and pumpkin patch.

*Note: this resource will be updated in the future to include other habitats and places and any purchases now will include the future update for free*

Includes:

• 6 "What Belongs in..." cut and paste sorting worksheets (one for each place)
• 6 "What is missing in..." complete the picture cut and paste worksheets (one for each place)
• 5 multiple place/habitat cut and paste sorting worksheets for students to compare two or four places (i.e. forest or ocean, farm or beach, etc.)
• Two black and white versions of each "What Belongs in..." and multiple place/habitat worksheet for easier printing. One version instructs students to color pictures before cutting and pasting.

*Total of 17 different worksheets, plus black and white versions*

This unit is part of the What Belongs? Series. Find all of the units in the series below or check out the all inclusive bundle to save 20%!

What Belongs? Holidays

What Belongs? Places/Habitats

What Belongs? Seasons

What Belongs? Rooms of the House

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Looking for fun, no-prep activities to add to your classroom or homeschool? These cut, sort, and paste activity worksheets are perfect for practicing scissor skills, for sorting centers, as morning work or for early finishers or for special education classrooms!

This bundle includes all What Belongs? units: Rooms of the House, Seasons, Places and Habitats, and Holidays. Each one of these units comes with full color sorting worksheets, black and white versions of the sorting worksheets for easier printing, "What is missing" worksheets where students complete a picture, and comparison sorting worksheets in full color and black and white. Please see below for full descriptions of each unit, and check the preview above for a look at all included worksheets!

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Included in the bundle:

What Belongs? Holidays Unit:

• Includes activities for the following holidays: Halloween, Remembrance Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, Chinese New Year, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, Earth Day, Ramadan, Independence Day, and Canada Day.
• 15 "What Belongs in..." cut and paste sorting worksheets (one for each holiday)
• 15 "What is missing in..." complete the picture cut and paste worksheets (one for each holiday)
• 9 multiple holiday cut and paste sorting worksheets for students to compare two or four holidays (i.e. Halloween or Thanksgiving, St. Patrick's Day or Easter, etc.)
• Two black and white versions of each "What Belongs in..." and multiple holiday worksheet for easier printing. One version instructs students to color pictures before cutting and pasting.

*Total of 39 different worksheets, plus black and white versions*

What Belongs? Places/Habitats Unit:

• Includes activities for the following places or habitats: forest, ocean, Arctic, farm, beach, and pumpkin patch.
• 6 "What Belongs in..." cut and paste sorting worksheets (one for each place)
• 6 "What is missing in..." complete the picture cut and paste worksheets (one for each place)
• 5 multiple place/habitat cut and paste sorting worksheets for students to compare two or four places (i.e. forest or ocean, farm or beach, etc.)
• Two black and white versions of each "What Belongs in..." and multiple place/habitat worksheet for easier printing. One version instructs students to color pictures before cutting and pasting.

*Total of 17 different worksheets, plus black and white versions*

What Belongs? Seasons Unit:

• Includes activities for fall, winter, spring, and summer
• 4 "What Belongs in..." cut and paste sorting worksheets (one for each season)
• 4 "How do we dress in..." cut and paste sorting worksheets (one for each season)
• 4 "What is missing in..." complete the picture cut and paste worksheet (one for each season)
• 5 multiple season cut and paste sorting worksheets for students to compare all four seasons at once
• Two black and white versions of each "What Belongs in...", "How do we dress in..." and multiple season worksheet for easier printing. One version instructs students to color pictures before cutting and pasting.

*Total of 17 different worksheets, plus black and white versions*

What Belongs? Rooms of the House Unit:

• Includes activities for the following rooms: kitchen, living room, bathroom, dining room, bedroom, office, laundry room, baby nursery, garage, and backyard.
• 10 "What Belongs in..." cut and paste sorting worksheets (one for each room)
• 10 "What is missing in..." complete the picture cut and paste worksheets (one for each room)
• 10 multiple room cut and paste sorting worksheets for students to compare two or four rooms (i.e. bedroom or bathroom, laundry room or backyard, etc.)
• Two black and white versions of each "What Belongs in..." and multiple room worksheet for easier printing. One version instructs students to color pictures before cutting and pasting.

*Total of 30 different worksheets, plus black and white versions*

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Set of 10 printable coloring pages or posters DIGITAL DOWNLOAD for kids to learn the responsibility of taking care of Earth, and nature, reusing, reducing, and recycling, family or classroom activity for Earth Day or for ecology and save the planet science lessons.

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Bundle of coloring resources for Earth Day, or to teach ecology lessons and environmental responsibility with inspirational slogans for keeping our planet green.

10 coloring pages and 4 coloring bookmarks in two different sizes.

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Looking for a fun to identify colors in everyday objects? These Color Sorting Mats are the perfect activity to get your students recognizing and identifying colors in objects around them. Featuring real photos of objects, these Color Sorting Mats are the perfect activity to explore and learn about colors in a hands-on and engaging way.

Encouraging exploration of 11 colors, this engaging Kindergarten math center features age-appropriate images of objects to allow learners to connect the colors to the world around them. Perfect for use during kindergarten math centers or with small groups of students, these color math mats are simple to prepare and can be used again and again.

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What is included in the Color Sorting Mats Activity?

- 11 Color Sorting Mats

- 66 Picture Cards with Real Photos

- 11 Black and White Mats

These color sorting mats make for a great hands-on sorting activity.

The activity mats are ready to go, just print, laminate, & cut. Children sort the cards by color. The color pictures are real photographs of colored objects.

Makes a great center activity!

Colors Included:

• red

• pink

• orange

• yellow

• green

• blue

• purple

• white

• gray

• brown

• black

How do learners complete this Kindergarten Color Sorting Center?

• Present learners with the color sorting mats and color picture cards with the photos.
• Learners match each picture card to the corresponding color mat.

Preparing this Kindergarten Color Sorting Activity:

• Print the color sorting mats and picture and laminate. For a printer-friendly version print the sorting mats onto colored paper, or color in the box at the top.
• Cut apart the picture cards and laminate.
• Attach velcro dots to the picture cards and the sorting mats for a fun file binder activity as well.

How to best use this Back to School Color Match and Sort Center:

• Explore during morning work 
• Assign as supplemental math centers 
• Implement these centers in an independent way or use them with small-groups.

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Learn all about bees with this information packed Bees Non Fiction Insect Unit for students in kindergarten, first and second grade. Featuring over 90 pages, this bees study unit is filled with information on bees, beekeeping, honey and the life cycle. More specifically, students will read about the parts of a bee, its behavior, social activity, food, reproduction, jobs, how honey is extracted and a detailed view of its life cycle. The printable contains real photos which your learners will love and helps students make connections with what they see in their environment.

For a detailed view of the contents of this non-fiction unit on bees, please view the preview above.

This bees literacy unit includes the following activities and printables:

• Poster/Booklet - All About Bees: Print individual pages as posters or bind pages to create a booklet. - 27 pages.
  Topics covered include:

  • What are bees?
  • What is pollination?
  • Where do bees live?
  • What do bees live in?
  • Honeycomb
  • General Anatomy of a Bee
  • Compound Eyes
  • Mouth
  • Antennae
  • Stinger
  • Hairs and Pollen basket
  • How do bees communicate?
  • What do bees eat?
  • Beehive
  • Hive frame
  • Honey bee colony
  • Queen Bee
  • How is the queen bee chosen?
  • Drone Bee
  • Worker bee
  • Activities of the Worker bee
  • Pollen
  • Honey
  • Beekeeper
  • Entomologist
  • Beeswax

• Non Fiction Reader: How do we get honey from beehives? A simple book featuring real pictures and explaining the process by which honey is harvested from beehives - 17 pages

• Non Fiction Reader: Life Cycle of a Honeybee Booklet: Includes a puzzle, and sequencing activity. Related 3-part cards are also available in the 3-part card document.

• Vocabulary 3-part cards: A set of vocabulary cards relating to the life cycle of bees, beekeeping and related equipment - 29 vocabulary words

• Parts of a bee: Poster and labeling activity - 1 poster, 1 worksheet

• Sorting Mats: Sort the bees and bee nests - 2 mats

• Worksheets: Engaging worksheets to help students reinforce their knowledge of bees - 5 pages

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Recognize 2D shapes in real life with these Shape Sorting Mats. Practice sorting shapes and recognizing shapes with this fun and hands-on printable. The printable uses real photos of objects for each shape.

**This packet is also available in the Sorting Mats (with real photos) Bundle!**

What is in this packet?

- 12 Shape Sorting Mats with real photos.

These shape sorting mats make for a great hands-on sorting activity. There are 6 sorting cards for each mat.

The activity mats are ready to go, just print, laminate, & cut. Children sort the cards by shape. The shape pictures are real photographs of everyday objects.

Makes a great center activity!

Includes 12 shapes:

- Oval

- Octagon

- Rhombus / Diamond

- Rectangle

- Square

- Triangle

- Heart

- Trapezium

- Circle

- Hexagon

- Pentagon

- Star

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Your students will have a blast learning about adult and baby animals with these hands-on animals and babies activities for kindergarten! This printable contains adorable real photos of adult and baby animals. Including both wild and farm animals, they make the perfect addition for your kindergarten science centers. This bundle contains 8 printables and activities including matching games, puzzles, posters, labels and graphic organizers. Each activity will help learners to associate the young one with its respective parent. For a detailed look at all activities included in this resource, please see the preview above.

The bundle is split into wild and farm animals due to the number of animals included. For a complete list of animals included check the list at the bottom of the description.

The activities and printables included in this bundle are:

- Flashcards

- Picture and Label Cards

- Posters

- Puzzles

- What Goes Together?

- Dominoes

- Memory Game

- Labels and Graphic Organizers

How to use: Adult and Baby Animals Science Activities for Kindergarten

The center activities are best used when printed on cardstock and/or laminated. You can choose to implement these centers in an independent way or use them with small-groups.

All the photos are real life photos. The baby animal photos are absolutely adorable and learners will simply love these photos!

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"Perfect for our unit on animal offspring. Great variety and organized well. Thank you!"

Farm Animals included are:

• Sheep (lamb)
• Goat (kid)
• Cow (calf)
• Dog (puppy)
• Horse (foal)
• Chicken (chick)
• Goose (gosling)
• Duck (duckling)
• Pig (piglet)
• Donkey (foal)
• Rabbit (kit)
• Cat (kitten)
• Rat (pup)
• Cockatoo (chick)
• Guinea pig (pup)
• Ferret (kit)
• Frog (tadpole)
• Squirrel (kit)
• Turkey (poult)
• Camel (foal)

Wild Animals included are:

• Tiger (cub)
• Lion (cub)
• Elephant (calf)
• Polar Bear (cub)
• Cheetah (cub)
• Panda (cub)
• Fox (cub)
• Crocodile (hatchling)
• Leopard (cub)
• Hippo (calf)
• Rhinoceros (calf)
• Hedgehog (hoglet)
• Raccoon (kit)
• Seal (pup)
• Deer (fawn)
• Herring gull (chick)
• Giraffe (calf)
• Zebra (foal)
• Sea lion (pup)
• Hyena (cub)
• Penguin (chick)
• Vulture (chick)

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These Dental Health Sorting Mats are the perfect Dental Health Center activity for your Kindergarten students to explore dental health in a fun and engaging way. Learners will explore different foods and determine which foods are good or bad for the health of their teeth.

This good vs. bad food sorting activity is a great way for students to learn about the food items that are good and bad for their teeth.

Color and black and white versions for both the sorting mats and picture cards are provided.

What’s included in this Kindergarten Dental Health Sorting Activity resource?

• Good and Bad Poster and Labels
• Small picture cards
• Flashcards with picture and words
• Reference sheet
• Black and white copies

Prepping this Good vs Bad food sorting activity:

• Print and laminate the pages. Both color and printer friendly BW versions are included so print whichever version you prefer.
• Cut apart to create the cards and the headings.

How to best use this Kindergarten Dental Health Sorting Activity?

• Put the headings into a pocket chart.
• Learners can sort the picture cards under the respective headings. You can also choose to use the picture cards with the text on them as well.
• This activity can be done in a pocket chart, or in a small group setting with 2 to 3 students working together.

When to Use this Good vs Bad food sorting activity:

• Great for dental health month.
• Incorporate this activity into a science or health unit.
• Can be used as a morning bin activity.
• Great for a dental themed sensory bin activity.

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These cards will intrigue your little learners as they try to match the patterns to the correct animals. There are a total of 30 animals featured here, all of which have exquisite patterns or distinct features that will enable them to match up the skin covers to the animals.

Pair this set of matching cards with animal figurines that are available and allow them to explore and talk about the different patterns and textures visible. Its a suitable addition to an animals unit for kindergartners and preschoolers.

This set includes:

- 30 animal skin covers / patterns

- 30 animals (full image)

- 30 control cards with the skin covers, animal and the name. (complete list is included below)

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Animals Included are:

- zebra

- tiger

- bee

- black swallowtail caterpillar

- clown fish

- snail

- peacock

- macaw

- hedgehog

- burmese python

- emerald tree boa

- jaguar

- giraffe

- spotted deer

- poison dart frog

- ladybird

- elephant

- leopard

- cheetah

- monarch butterfly

- tortoise

- bald eagle

- crocodile

- dalmatian dog

- lion

- chameleon

- okapi

- porcupine

- mandrill baboon

- cow

- sheep

- tiger salamander

- rainbow lorikeet

Free space emergent reader about an Astronaut. Suitable for incorporation into a space unit.

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Children love learning about fruits, and how they look like. This set provides them with all the information they need about fruits. It includes a few details about the fruits, such as the outer appearance, the inside appearance, taste and their uses.

This material consists of:

- 27 cards with fruits and their labels

- 27 cards with information about the fruits

I have made two versions, the information remains exactly the same for both versions. There are two versions for the pictures, one with just the fruit whole, while the other version contains the picture of the fruit whole along with the inside of it, allowing them to correspond the picture to the information presented. Just choose which one you like before printing.

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Children are familiar with the fruits outer appearance, however, they are sometimes unfamiliar with how the fruits look on the inside. This montessori inspired matching activity is ideal for teaching children about how the inside of the fruits look like. Just ask to match and let them examine the pictures!

This material consists of:

- 27 cards with fruits

- 27 cards with fruits inside

- 27 control cards with fruits, their insides and names

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3-Part cards are a wonderful way to introduce children to new vocabulary. This set of 3-part cards covers the common household fruits. It contains a total of 27 fruits. A wonderful activity to do with kids both in the classroom and at home.

This set includes:

• 27 pictures with labels
• 27 pictures without labels
• 27 labels

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Your students are bound to have endless fun with this extensive bundle of sorting mats for kindergarten centers and it’s the perfect resource to keep your students engaged during morning work or literacy and math centers. These kindergarten sorting mats combine five sets and feature real photos to ensure students are able to make connections between their learning and the world around them. Themes vary and are not season-specific which makes them great for use at any time during the school year.

What is included in this Sorting Mats for Kindergarten Centers - Bundle?

- Community Helpers Sorting Mats - 26 Mats

- Fruits Non-Identical Sorting Activity - 26 Mats

- Color Sorting Mats - 11 Mats

- 2D Shapes Sorting Mats - 12 Mats

- Vehicles Sorting (Air, Land, Water Transport Sorting) - 24 picture cards

How to use: Sorting Mats for Kindergarten Centers - Bundle

The centers are best used by printing on cardstock and laminating to allow for repeat use and durability. You can choose to implement these centers during independent centers or with teacher guidance in small groups.

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