With Christmas right around the corner, my students are getting excited for the holidays – I am too! For my science class today, I decided to keep with the Christmas theme and did a holiday science experiment. Students became surgeons/doctors/scientists for this activity. I later did the activity at home with my own kids and...
I tried this experiment in the past when I taught science for kids in grade 2, but it was just as much fun for my kindergarten kids today. It is a great hands-on experiment for kids to learn about liquids and solids. It helps young kids gain an understanding that not all liquids are the...
I really enjoy doing simple science experiments with kids. They learn so much from the experiments and it gets them excited about science. Some students recently asked how water gets into a tree. They knew that leaves don’t ‘drink’ the rain, but wondered how the water got into the leaves and tree. I decided to...
My students often ask me when we are going to do our next (STEM) challenge. They love building and being challenged to create something. I am always impressed by how hard they work, and how determined they are to succeed. These are my top 10 STEM challenges that I have done with over 100 young...
This activity was such a fun, hands-on way to teach math. Students have been learning about shapes in kindergarten. (We did a shape hunt, a math talk and even some shape art.) Today we used popsicle sticks and worked together as a big group to create shapes. I handed out 10 popsicle sticks to every...
Today, I taught 3-6 year olds about friction! I love taking fundamental science topics and teaching them to young kids in a way that they can understand and learn from. To me, kindergarten is all about kids being introduced to as many things and ideas as possible. I find that science experiments for kids,...