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Science · Kindergarten
Kindergarten scientists choose the right tool for a job (magnifier, cubes, balance), measure and compare lengths with cubes laid end to end, compare weights with a balance, and learn to back up what they say with evidence: 'I know because I saw, measured or felt it.'
Science · Kindergarten
Children find out that pushes and pulls can start something moving, stop it or change its direction, including when a ball bumps into a wall. They compare strong and gentle pushes, read a simple bar chart from a ramp investigation, and use test results to decide which design really turns a marble into a cup or slows a toy car down.
Science · Kindergarten
Children describe materials by their properties (strong, bendy, waterproof, soft, see-through) and explain why things are made of the materials they are: windows of glass, boots of rubber, pillows of soft cloth. Then they test paper, foil and cardboard as a bridge for toy animals, count how many blocks each holds, and choose the best material using the data.
Science · Kindergarten
Children run a plant investigation in a simulation, changing the hours of light and whether the plant gets water, and read the results to find that plants need both light and water to grow well. They sort animals by whether they eat plants, other animals or both, and find the big pattern: all living things need water, plants use light to make their own food, and animals must eat.
Science · Kindergarten
Squirrels dig holes to hide acorns, beavers dam streams, tree roots crack sidewalks and people build roads. Children find out how living things change the places they live to meet their needs, use a picture model to match living things to places that meet their needs, and choose everyday actions that reduce the harm people do to land, water, air and other living things.
Science · Kindergarten
Children describe the weather from clues and a thermometer, record it on a chart, and read a month of weather records to find patterns, such as more snowy days in January than in July where winters are cold. They learn how weather forecasts help families prepare for severe weather and practise the safe action for thunderstorms, tornadoes, floods and blizzards.
Science · Kindergarten
Why is the slide hot on a sunny afternoon? Children observe that sunlight warms the things it shines on, compare thermometer readings for sand and water in the sun and in the shade, and then design shade structures. They test which cover keeps an ice cube from melting longest and learn which materials block sunlight and which let it through.
Science · Kindergarten
The class bean plant will be alone for a long weekend. Who will water it? Children work like engineers: they ask questions to understand the problem, draw and label a design (a string that carries water from a jar into the soil), explain how its parts help it work, and compare test results from three designs to choose the one that keeps the soil damp.
