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

Are you studying about the farm or where our food comes from? This science activity for making butter is an easy and fun experiment for students to get hands on experience on what making butter consists of. An easy to follow instructional page, child friendly recording sheets and a journal page are including with this packet. The instructional page includes tips for a successful experiment!

What is included:

Instruction sheet for how to make butter.

2 recording sheet options for making observations, predictions and conclusions.

1 journal page to draw a picture and write about what they did and learned.

Let students explore the science around transportation with this packet that contains two experiments.

Experiments Included:

Does it roll?

Sink the boat!

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.

Are you looking for a Christmas themed science experiment? This candy cane science activity is an easy and fun experiment for students to practice making predictions, observing, and recording their observations and results. An easy to follow instructional page, child friendly recording sheets and a journal page are including with this packet.

What is included:

Instruction sheet for the candy cane experiment

3 recording sheet options for making observations, predictions and conclusions.

1 journal page to draw a picture and write about what they did and learned.

This packet contains one observation activity and two experiments. Students will observe a pumpkin, noting its appearance, feel and measure it's height and then use different parts of a pumpkin for a sink and float experiment. There is also a pumpkin volcano experiment to observe two different types of eruptions. It is part of my Let's Be Scientists series!

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.

Compare the mass of different solid objects with this packet of three mass comparison activities. Each activity uses easy to find objects that fit in a typical balance so students can compare their masses.

Activities Included

• Activity 1: (Materials: Random objects, balance, page 2 of this packet) Each student or group of students will look around the room for objects to weigh in a balance. The will draw the objects on the recording sheet then fill in the symbols to make the comparison correct.
• Activity 2: (Materials: Page 3 of this packet, a toy car, a block, a coin, a key, a shell, a button, a pine cone, a ball and balance for each group.) Students will place the two objects in the balance. They will fill in the correct answer on the recording sheet.
• Activity 3: (Materials: balance, picture cards, page 2 and objects represented on the picture cards) Students will choose two picture cards and use a balance to compare the mass of the two objects, recording the results on the recording page. Large Activity Cards with Words are on pages 4-9. Small Activity Cards without Words are on pages 10-11.

More Science Activities

Science Sorts

Plants Activity Bundle

This packet contains two experiments aligned with a plant theme. It is part of my Let's Be Scientists series!

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.

Practice preschool skills with this full year of seasonal and holiday themed preschool activity bundle. This bundle includes a wide variety of center activities, worksheets and games specifically for preschool and pre-k. This bundle includes activities for seasons and holidays.

What is Included:

Letter Sound Game

• Catch the Penguin (Winter)

Color Hunt

• Valentine's Day (Hearts)
• St. Patrick's Day (Rainbow)
• Easter
• Spring (Flowers)

Counting Mats 1-20 (All Themes)

Dot Painting

• Fall

Letter Cards (All Themes)

Letter Clip Cards (All Themes)

Letter Puzzles (All Themes)

Line Tracing Card (All Themes)

Letter Recognition Games (All Themes)

Alphabet Playdough and Tracing Mats

• Winter Themed Mats A-Z
• Spring Themed Mats A-Z

Worksheets and Centers Packet (All Themes)

Color Sorting

• Thanksgiving

Shapes Activity

Class Books for each season

Craft Activity

• Spring (B is for Butterfly)
• Thanksgiving (Turkey Centerpiece)

Fun Playdough Mats

• Halloween

Shape Game

• Christmas

Science

• Christmas

Themes Included:

Christmas

Easter

Fall/Autumn

Fourth of July

Groundhog's Day

Halloween

Spring

St. Patrick's Day

Summer

Thanksgiving

Valentine's Day

Winter

Related Links:

Winter Themed with Real Photographs

Valentine's Day with Real Photographs

Fall/Autumn Themed with Real Photographs

Christmas Themed with Real Photographs

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

What is Included:

Alphabet Clip Cards

Alphabet Game

Alphabet Magnet Mats

Alphabet, Number and Shape Sorting Mats

Alphabet Puzzles and Cards

Alphabet Tracing Cards

Candy Cane Science

Christmas Tree Letter Sorting

Counting Mats with Tens Frames 1-20

Decorate the Christmas Tree Number Mats 1-20

Number Magnet Mats

Number Puzzles and Cards

Number Sense Mats

Number Sense Sorting

Number Tracing Cards

Order By Size

Patterning

Seek and Find Mats

Syllable Sorts

Tracing Lines Center

Vocabulary and Tracing Cards

Worksheets for Math and ELA

Related Links:

Winter Themed Preschool Bundle

Groundhog's Day Themed Preschool Bundle

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.

Practice preschool skills with this bundle of 16 themed preschool activity sets. This bundle includes a wide variety of center activities, worksheets and games specifically for preschool and pre-k. Students practice handwriting, letter recognition, number recognition, counting, shapes, syllables and more with these various themes.

Please note that this bundle is not yet complete and items will be added as they are completed.

What is Included:

Alphabet Cards

Alphabet Clip Cards

Alphabet Game

Alphabet Puzzles

Alphabet Tracing Cards

Counting to 10 Centers

Counting to 20 Mats

Dot Painting

Magnet Matching Mats

Number Cards

Number Puzzles

Prewriting Lines Tracing Cards

Science Activities

Seek and Find Mats

Shapes Centers

Sorting Activities

Syllable Sorting

Worksheets

Themes Included:

Apples (13 Activities)

Back to School (8 Activities)

Beach (2 Activities)

Community Helpers (Coming Soon)

Dental Health (2 Activities)

Earth Day (4 Activities)

Farm (1 Activity)

Fire Safety (2 Activities)

Gingerbread (4 Activities)

Insects (1 Activity)

Ocean (2 Activities)

Pets (1 Activity)

Space (4 Activities)

Sports (1 Activity)

Transportation (8 Activities)

Weather (1 Activity)

* These sets are a work in progress. Please note that you only pay for the items already included in this set. The price of this bundle will increase as the rest of the activities are added. Each of the 16 themes will have at least 10 different activities when competed.

Related Links:

Winter Themed with Real Photographs

Valentine's Day with Real Photographs

Fall/Autumn Themed with Real Photographs

Christmas Themed with Real Photographs

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

Do fun and engaging science experiments with this science bundle. Each experiment includes a detailed instruction page with materials needed to complete the experiment. Each experiment comes with its own making predictions page, recording page and journaling page.

The following experiments are available in this packet:

Apple Experiments

1. Sink or Float
2. What happens to an apple under different conditions?

Comparing Mass

Making Butter

Pumpkins

1. Pumpkin Observation
2. Sink and Float
3. Pumpkin Volcano Comparison

Seeds and Plants Experiments

1. What happens when seeds get wet?
2. How do seeds grow?

Transportation Experiments

1. Does it Roll?
2. Sink the Boat!

More Science Activities

Living and Nonliving Sort

The Plants We Eat

Have fun on your 100th day of school with these hands-on, inquiry based science experiments! Included are a week's worth of activities, all based around the theme of "100".

*"100 Pennies in a Boat"

*"100 Melting Crayons"

*"100 Magnetic Paperclips"

*"100 Dancing Chocolate Chips"

*"100 Licks" Experiment

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Students will learn about the concepts of magnets and magnetism through these fun and engaging investigations.

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.

This packet 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:

• An explanation of the Scientific Method

• Printable recording sheets for investigations

• Guide for helping students develop independent investigations

• Tips and helpful suggestions

Students will learn about reflection and mirrors through engaging and fun investigations.

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.

Activities include:

*Sorting reflective and non-reflective materials

*Double Mirrors

*Triangular Mirrors

*Symmetry

*Concave and Convex Mirrors

*Sensory Play on a Mirror

*Final Project- Create a Mirror Sculpture

Click to see my entire Science Curriculum

Students will investigate the states of matter of water as it changes from frozen to liquid states. 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.

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.)

This first unit in the "Science Kids" series helps students learn how to be scientists. Every activity in this packet is aligned with one of the five stages of scientific inquiry. 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.

The packet includes:

• Color posters of the five stages of scientific inquiry (Click here for free sample)

• 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

Click to see my entire Science Curriculum

Students will learn about buoyancy and water displacement through these engaging investigations. 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.

Included in this packet are:

★Explanation of the Scientific Method for teachers

★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

Click to see my entire Science Curriculum

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.

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