Preschool - Kindergarten

Practice inquiry skills by experimenting with how balls bounce and roll.

Explore the needs of living things and animal habitats through hands-on activities, including tie-ins to math and literacy.

This is a great hands-on activity for large-scale community events or even in class visits. Students build spider webs out of toothpicks, thin, flexible wires, and beads. This can act as a supplement to other bug-related activities or even to discussing elements of mathematics in nature.

This activity discusses Optics/Perception and teaches about the persistence of vision.

This activity will introduce younger audiences to what science is.

The students will identify and recognize their 5 senses when completing these activities. This activity goes well with the "Feast for the Senses" lending library kit.

This activity will teach us about magnets and how they can overcome gravity by creating a magnetic kite!

In this activity, participants will explore the functioning of their circulatory system and how different activity levels impact it!

Try out some additional activities that explore solids, liquids and gases!

This activity introduces pre-school / kindergarten aged students to the different steps in the life cycle of a butterfly from egg, to caterpillar, to chrystalis / cocoon, to butterfly. The students also get to create and take home a butterfly or caterpillar craft.

Students will learn about stars and create a "constellation viewer" where they can create a constellation to look at.

Read "My Hero is You" and learn about germs and the importance of washing your hands.

Read "Who Likes the Wind?" and learn about wind and renewable energy.

Read "Curious George and the Hot Air Balloon" and learn about the properties of light.

Read "The Cloud Spinner" and learn about the water cycle in nature.