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Design Your Own Planet
Design Your Own Planet
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Design Your Own Planet
Pre-K
Earth and Space Science
In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.
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Design Your Own Planet
Design Your Own Planet
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Design Your Own Planet
In this activity, children will let their imagination run wild as they design and build a new planet in the solar system.
Pre-K
Earth and Space Science
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Design Challenge: Making a Boat
Design Challenge: Making a Boat
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Design Challenge: Making a Boat
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.
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Design Challenge: Making a Boat
Design Challenge: Making a Boat
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Design Challenge: Making a Boat
In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge
In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Growing Jack-o'-Lantern
Growing Jack-o'-Lantern
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Growing Jack-o'-Lantern
Pre-K
Physical Science
In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.
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Growing Jack-o'-Lantern
Growing Jack-o'-Lantern
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Growing Jack-o'-Lantern
In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.
Pre-K
Physical Science
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Corn Maze STEM Challenge
Corn Maze STEM Challenge
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Corn Maze STEM Challenge
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!
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Corn Maze STEM Challenge
Corn Maze STEM Challenge
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Corn Maze STEM Challenge
Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.
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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower
In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Air Pressure Science Experiment: Balloon and a Jar
Air Pressure Science Experiment: Balloon and a Jar
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Air Pressure Science Experiment: Balloon and a Jar
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.
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Air Pressure Science Experiment: Balloon and a Jar
Air Pressure Science Experiment: Balloon and a Jar
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Air Pressure Science Experiment: Balloon and a Jar
In this air pressure science experiment with a balloon and a jar, children will use heat to create a partial vacuum and suck a balloon into a jar.
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Discovering the Best Water for Plants
Discovering the Best Water for Plants
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Discovering the Best Water for Plants
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?
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Discovering the Best Water for Plants
Discovering the Best Water for Plants
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Discovering the Best Water for Plants
Water, along with soil and light, is a necessary component for plant growth. So what's better for promoting plant growth: tap water, or rain water?
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Halloween Potions
Halloween Potions
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Halloween Potions
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.
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Halloween Potions
Halloween Potions
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Halloween Potions
Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Skeleton Hand Print
Skeleton Hand Print
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Skeleton Hand Print
Kindergarten
Life Science
Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws
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Skeleton Hand Print
Skeleton Hand Print
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Skeleton Hand Print
Create a three-dimensional X-ray of your child's hand in this simple modeling activity. All you need to get started are black paper and drinking straws
Kindergarten
Life Science
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult
In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg
Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg
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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.
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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg
Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg
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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg
In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Exploring Taste: Sweet, Sour, Salty, and Bitter
Exploring Taste: Sweet, Sour, Salty, and Bitter
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Exploring Taste: Sweet, Sour, Salty, and Bitter
Kindergarten
Life Science
In this science fair project, young children will become aware of and have the opportunity to experience the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.
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Exploring Taste: Sweet, Sour, Salty, and Bitter
Exploring Taste: Sweet, Sour, Salty, and Bitter
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Exploring Taste: Sweet, Sour, Salty, and Bitter
In this science fair project, young children will become aware of and have the opportunity to experience the four basic tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.
Kindergarten
Life Science
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Density Experiment
Density Experiment
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Density Experiment
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This is a quick, easy science fair project that conveys the idea of density to preschool and early elementary children.
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Density Experiment
Density Experiment
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Density Experiment
This is a quick, easy science fair project that conveys the idea of density to preschool and early elementary children.
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet
Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet
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Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.
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Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet
Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet
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Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet
Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Balloon Greenhouse
Balloon Greenhouse
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Balloon Greenhouse
Kindergarten
Life Science
Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.
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Balloon Greenhouse
Balloon Greenhouse
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Balloon Greenhouse
Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.
Kindergarten
Life Science
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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Pre-K
Life Science
Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!
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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Roasting pumpkin seeds makes for a great Halloween activity, and a healthy snack!
Pre-K
Life Science
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Making Rain
Making Rain
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Making Rain
Kindergarten
Earth and Space Science
Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.
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Making Rain
Making Rain
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Making Rain
Help your kindergarten science maven explore the water cycle without getting everything wet.
Kindergarten
Earth and Space Science
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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.
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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers
In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.
Pre-K
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Bubble Science
Bubble Science
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Bubble Science
Pre-K
Life Science
This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!
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Bubble Science
Bubble Science
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Bubble Science
This recipe makes bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! How do you do it? It's not a secret, it's science!
Pre-K
Life Science
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Popcorn Science for All Five Senses!
Popcorn Science for All Five Senses!
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Popcorn Science for All Five Senses!
Kindergarten
Life Science
Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!
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Popcorn Science for All Five Senses!
Popcorn Science for All Five Senses!
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Popcorn Science for All Five Senses!
Use popcorn in this tasty experiment to explore the five senses at home with your kindergartener!
Kindergarten
Life Science
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Drinking Gourd Window Cut-Out
Drinking Gourd Window Cut-Out
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Drinking Gourd Window Cut-Out
Kindergarten
Earth and Space Science
This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.
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Drinking Gourd Window Cut-Out
Drinking Gourd Window Cut-Out
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Drinking Gourd Window Cut-Out
This craft is an excellent way to learn about African-American history, and it also provides fine motor practice.
Kindergarten
Earth and Space Science
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Make a Parachute Toy
Make a Parachute Toy
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Make a Parachute Toy
Kindergarten
Physical Science
This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.
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Make a Parachute Toy
Make a Parachute Toy
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Make a Parachute Toy
This homemade parachute toy is incredibly easy to build. Plus, it gives kids an excuse to investigate and experiment...the backbone of kindergarten science.
Kindergarten
Physical Science
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What Is the Best Way to Wash Your Hands?
What Is the Best Way to Wash Your Hands?
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What Is the Best Way to Wash Your Hands?
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.
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What Is the Best Way to Wash Your Hands?
What Is the Best Way to Wash Your Hands?
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What Is the Best Way to Wash Your Hands?
This science project teaches young students about germs, bacteria, and the importance of washing their hands. Students will test what is the best way to wash.
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Create a Hibernating Bear Den
Create a Hibernating Bear Den
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Create a Hibernating Bear Den
Kindergarten
Measurement
Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.
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Create a Hibernating Bear Den
Create a Hibernating Bear Den
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Create a Hibernating Bear Den
Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.
Kindergarten
Measurement
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Craft the Frog Life Cycle
Craft the Frog Life Cycle
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Craft the Frog Life Cycle
Kindergarten
Life Science
Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.
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Craft the Frog Life Cycle
Craft the Frog Life Cycle
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Craft the Frog Life Cycle
Here's a simple craft activity that can help your youngster better visualize the life cycle of a frog as a circle.
Kindergarten
Life Science
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Make a Sensory Cloud
Make a Sensory Cloud
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Make a Sensory Cloud
Kindergarten
Life Science
Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!
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Make a Sensory Cloud
Make a Sensory Cloud
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Make a Sensory Cloud
Make scented sensory cloud dough. Add it to a sensory table, activity station, or put it in a baggie for extra at-the-park entertainment!
Kindergarten
Life Science
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Feeding Plants
Feeding Plants
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Feeding Plants
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.
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Feeding Plants
Feeding Plants
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Feeding Plants
This project explores whether plants can live and grow when "watered" with juice, soda, or milk.
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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Where Do I Live? An Animal Habitat Game
Where Do I Live? An Animal Habitat Game
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Where Do I Live? An Animal Habitat Game
Kindergarten
Life Science
Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.
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Where Do I Live? An Animal Habitat Game
Where Do I Live? An Animal Habitat Game
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Where Do I Live? An Animal Habitat Game
Check out this silly game that will put your kid's animal habitat knowledge (and acting skills) to the test.
Kindergarten
Life Science
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Plants Need Sunlight and Water
Plants Need Sunlight and Water
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Plants Need Sunlight and Water
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.
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Plants Need Sunlight and Water
Plants Need Sunlight and Water
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Plants Need Sunlight and Water
This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.
Kindergarten
Engineering and Science Inquiry
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About Kindergarten Science Activities

On Education.com, kindergarten science activities explore initial concepts of life science, physical science, and chemistry through hands-on experiments and explorations. These activities are designed to foster early scientific thinking by engaging children with practical, age-appropriate experiments like planting seeds, observing nature, or exploring buoyancy with water and objects. This helps young learners develop curiosity, observation skills, and an understanding of the natural world. Parents and teachers can access printable worksheets, lesson plans, and structured activities that make learning fun and accessible.

Discover a variety of classroom-ready resources on Education.com, including differentiated science worksheets, investigation activities, experiment guides, and downloadable lesson plans. Each resource emphasizes experiential learning with materials that are safe, simple, and tailored to 4- to 6-year-olds. Educators can use these materials to support structured lessons or parents can incorporate hands-on experiments into home learning routines. This collection makes beginning science engaging and manageable for young children.

Browse kindergarten science activity pages on Education.com to find planning resources that save time and make science accessible. Worksheets and printable experiments provide step-by-step guides that promote active learning, critical thinking, and probably exploration. Whether teaching instruction or fostering at-home curiosity, these tools provide a comprehensive, practical way to bring kindergarten science to life.