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

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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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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Are you searching for captivating activities that not only entertain but also educate? Look no further than our Space Themed Finger Puppet Crafts! Designed to spark curiosity and ignite imaginations, these crafts offer an immersive journey into the depths of outer space.

IN ADDITION, this resource includes an information handout about "The Earth." Through this resource, students will develop a better understanding of how the Earth works and why it is important to protect it.

Are you searching for captivating activities that not only entertain but also educate? Look no further than our Space Themed Finger Puppet Crafts! Designed to spark curiosity and ignite imaginations, these crafts offer an immersive journey into the depths of outer space.

Whether you're a homeschooling parent looking for engaging learning experiences or a teacher seeking interactive classroom activities, these crafts are the perfect solution.

Immerse yourself in an array of astronaut, alien, and robot finger puppets, each meticulously crafted to bring the wonders of the universe to life. From exploring distant planets to encountering extraterrestrial beings, these finger puppets provide endless opportunities for storytelling and imaginative play.

In addition to the creative fun, our resource includes a planet research report worksheet, adding an educational component to the adventure. This worksheet encourages young learners to delve deeper into the mysteries of the cosmos, fostering research skills and scientific inquiry.

With our Space Themed Finger Puppet Crafts, you can inspire a love for learning and exploration while embarking on an intergalactic adventure right from the comfort of your own home or classroom. So, get ready to blast off into a world of imagination and discovery!

IN ADDITION, this resource includes an information handout about "The Earth." Through this resource, students will develop a better understanding of how the Earth works and why it is important to protect it.

WHAT IS A DIORAMA?

A diorama is a 3D scene designed to depict a particular topic or concept. These miniature scenes are assembled using various materials layered together, often within a shoebox or similar container, to visually represent different aspects of the chosen subject.

Students can construct a diorama by cutting, coloring, painting, and gluing different components inside the box. This allows them to create models that convey specific scenarios like historical events or animals in their habitats. They can enhance their scenes by incorporating natural elements like grass, sand, or twigs.

While these dioramas don't come with strict assembly guidelines, students should familiarize themselves with the subject first and then creatively use provided materials to design their unique diorama. This hands-on activity encourages learning in a fun and engaging way.

SIMPLY PRINT - Print the pieces on sturdy cardstock and allow students to explore as an extension of their lesson plans.

We can eat all kinds of plants. This parts of a plant sort includes real photographic images to sort. This sort includes flowers, seeds, leaves, stems, roots, and fruits. There are six pictures for each plant part.

Pictures Included:

Flowers: broccoli, cauliflower, artichoke, squash blossom, dandelion, honeysuckle

Fruits: raspberry, apple, lime, pepper, banana, blueberry

Leaves: lettuce, kale, mint, purple cabbage, spinach, parsley

Roots: radish, sweet potato, parsnip, carrot, onion, garlic

Seeds: corn, almonds, beans, peas, sesame seeds, coconut

Stems: leek, asparagus, celery, rhubarb, scallions, bamboo shoots

This product includes two different types of sorting activities. One set has full page size sorting mats for students to organize each plant picture. The second set has header cards in two sizes (one large sized for table top activities and a smaller size that can fit inside a task box). The picture cards work with both sets of sorting activities.

Posters, Anchor Charts and Answer Keys

This set also includes a set of posters or anchor charts. These charts can be used to check the answers of the pictures sorted or as an instructional tool to teach about the plants we eat before students begin the sorting activity. These posters also allow teachers to differentiate this activity for students. Those who need more support can use these posters as a guide to filling out their sorting mats.

How to Use:

Students will place the sorting mats on a table or on the floor. They will look at each plant picture and place it on the correct mat.

Where to Use:

• Science Center
• Morning Tub or Basket
• Small Group Activity
• Wall display or anchor charts

The real photographs in this set provide students with easy to recognize images of different edible plants.

More Science Sorting Activities

Natural and Manmade Resources

Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

Nocturnal and Diurnal Animals

Living and Nonliving Animals

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

This bundle includes all of my plant themed science activities all in one place.

Science Experiments:

Experiment 1: What happens when a seed gets wet?

Experiment 2: How do seeds grow?

Each experiment includes a detailed instruction sheet with materials lists and step by step directions for the experiment. There is a recording page for students to make predictions and record the results of the project. Also provided are journal pages for students to write why they think the results happened the way they did. Journal pages are differentiated where appropriate.

Plants We Eat Sort:

We can eat all kinds of plants. This parts of a plant sort includes real photographic images to sort. This sort includes flowers, seeds, leaves, stems, roots, and fruits. There are four pictures for each plant part.

Plants Interactive Notebook Pages:

1. Parts of a Flower - This page covers flower, stem, leaf and root. Use the flower provided or have students draw their own to go under the flaps.

2. We Eat Plants - This page covers all parts of plants and the foods we can eat from each part. Students draw or find pictures in magazines/grocery fliers to put under each flap.

3. What do plants need? - This page shows plants need air, water, food and light to grow. Use magazines to cut out pictures or draw pictures to represent each under the flaps.

These pages can fit in a composition book or spiral notebook.

Plants and Seeds Activities

Match pictures of plants and their seeds. Complete cut and paste activities to sort plants and seeds as well as to match the parent plant with its seed.

Students will make a life size model of the human body as they learn about the systems of the body. This Unit supports the Next Generation Science Standards.

The “Science Kids” series 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. All activities can be differentiated to meet the needs of your students.

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)

Children learn what animals need and how to care for pets through the hands-on lessons and activities in this unit. This packet supports the Next Generation Science Standards.

The “Science Kids” series 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. All activities can be differentiated to meet the needs of your students.

Through the activities in this packet, children will explore the things that animals need, including:

❤ Food and Water

❤ Habitat

❤ Body Coverings

❤ Exercise

❤ Companionship

Also included are 8 full-color (half page sized) habitat posters, printable pages for students to record their activities, and lots of ideas for extension activities.

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The science and literacy activities in this "From Caterpillar to Butterfly" packet are a terrific complement to a hands-on observation of caterpillars in your classroom or outdoors. Be sure to download the preview to see everything that you will get in this packet. This Packet Includes: Original printable book: "A Caterpillar Came to School" (10 pages... color) Caterpillar to butterfly life cycle sequencing cards (in color and b/w) Pocket chart word cards Parts of caterpillar labeled picture (b/w) Parts of a butterfly labeled picture (b/w) "From Caterpillar to Butterfly" printable board game Caterpillar and butterfly songs and poems.

The Science Kids curriculum 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. All activities can be differentiated to meet the needs of your students.

This year long bundle includes 16 Science Units:

• “What do Scientists Do?”

• “Floating and Sinking”

• “Color Mixing”

• “Magnets”

• “Kitchen Chemistry”

• “Ramps”

• “Mirrors”

• “Gingerbread Science”

• “Freezing and Melting”

• “My Human Body”

• “Music and Vibration”

• “Shadows and Light”

• “Weather and Temperature”

• “Taking Care of the Earth”

• “Taking Care of Pets”

• “Taking Care of Plants”

This packet includes enough lessons for 32 weeks of hands-on learning. While 32 weeks is a bit shorter than a typical school year, this curriculum is designed to be flexible in order to give children the time they need to learn, so extra days are allowed for each unit. Additional, optional activities are also included for many of the units, and these can be used to help fill your days if needed.

This curriculum supports the Next Generation Science Standards for kindergarten.

Please see my other Science products if you want to supplement this curriculum.

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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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 fourth quarter of the school year (About 8 weeks)

ode:

Weather and Temperature

As they work through the experiments in this packet, students will explore the following concepts:

1. The weather changes.

2. Weather includes cloud cover, wind, precipitation and temperature.

3. The sun warms the Earth.

4. We can use tools to measure the weather.

5. The weather determines some of our actions and activities.

Taking Care of the Earth

As they work through the experiments in this packet, students will explore the following concepts:

1. Human beings cause pollution on the Earth.

2. Pollution is harmful to the land, air and water of the Earth.

3. People can help reduce and prevent the amount of pollution on the Earth.

Taking Care of Pets

Through the activities in this packet, children will explore the things that animals need, including:

1. Food and Water

2. Habitat

3.Body Coverings

4. Exercise

5. Companionship

Taking Care of Plants

As they learn about what plants need, the students will explore the following topics:

1. Life Cycle of a Seed

2. Plants Need Water

3.How Plants Absorb Water

4. Plants Need Soil

5. Dark or Light? (Plants need sunlight)

6. Parts of a Plant

Be sure to download the preview, or see each individual packet for more detailed information about what they contain.

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Enhance your students' understanding of the five senses with this comprehensive 10-page worksheet pack! Perfect for preschool and early elementary students, these interactive activities promote sensory exploration and literacy skills.

Included Activities:

1. Trace and Color: Students trace the word "senses" and color the corresponding picture.
2. Match It Up: Match the sense words to their respective pictures.
3. Connect the Dots: Draw lines connecting body parts to their associated senses.
4. Likes and Dislikes: Tick the senses they enjoy and cross out those they don’t.
5. Understanding Senses: A short explanation of the function of the five sense organs.
6. Sensory Lists: Write three things they can touch, taste, smell, see, and hear.
7. Fill in the Blanks: Complete sentences using the correct sense organs from a word bank.
8. Cut and Paste Activity: Match senses to images through a fun cut-and-paste task.
9. Creative Drawing: Use each sense to inspire drawings of items or experiences.

Engage your students with this comprehensive Living and Nonliving Sort activity! Perfect for helping young learners differentiate between living and nonliving things, this resource includes a variety of worksheets and sorting activities tailored for your classroom.

Looking for a fun and educational activity for your frog or pond unit?

This interactive life cycle chart helps young children understand the fascinating transformation of frogs! Featuring vibrant illustrations of frog eggs, tadpoles, tadpoles with legs, and adult frogs, this full-page chart allows students to attach illustrations while discussing each stage.

Included is a black and white worksheet for kids to cut, paste, and color, reinforcing their learning. Perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, homeschooling, special education, speech therapy, or occupational therapy settings, this activity seamlessly fits into thematic units on frogs, ponds, spring, or summer. Check the product preview for sample pages!

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Explore the wonders of metamorphosis with this Butterfly Life Cycle Activity Pack, a perfect blend of fun & education for spring. This resource offers engaging, hands-on learning experiences & worksheets ideal for preschool, kindergarten and first-grade.

This pack includes:

• Life Cycle of a Butterfly Crown Craftivity: Your students create a crown depicting the life stages. (Black and White & Color version available)
• 3D Mobile Craft: A visual, hanging display of the butterfly transformation.
• Life Cycle Sequencing Worksheet: A black and white activity for reinforcing sequence understanding.
• Spinner Game: An interactive and fun way to review the life cycle stages.

Perfect for teachers seeking effective and creative science resources, this Butterfly Life Cycle Activity Pack enhances understanding through craft and game activities. Get yours now and bring life cycle learning to life.

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Dive into the captivating journey of a sunflower's life with our comprehensive "Life Cycle of a sunflower plant " printable worksheets! Perfect for teachers, homeschooling parents, and young learners, this engaging resource offers an interactive and educational way to explore the fascinating stages of a sunflower's metamorphosis.

What's Included :

• PAGE : 10 PAGES
• FILES : PDF + PNG
• SIZE : 11'' x 8.5''

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Dive into the captivating journey of a Frog's life with our comprehensive "Life Cycle of a Frog" printable worksheets! Perfect for teachers, homeschooling parents, and young learners, this engaging resource offers an interactive and educational way to explore the fascinating stages of a Frog's metamorphosis.

What's Included :

• PAGE : 7 PAGES
• FILES : PDF + PNG
• SIZE : 11'' x 8.5''

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Dive into the captivating journey of a Bean's life with our comprehensive "Life Cycle of a Bean Plant" printable worksheets! Perfect for teachers, homeschooling parents, and young learners, this engaging resource offers an interactive and educational way to explore the fascinating stages of a bean's metamorphosis.

What's Included :

• PAGE : 10 PAGES
• FILES : PDF + PNG
• SIZE : 11'' x 8.5''

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• Life Cycle of a Butterfly
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