The science center in my classroom is always a busy place. Students can observe, experiment, create, construct, classify, compare, and question. Students are natural-born scientists. They are curious and eager to explore the world and everything in it! As teachers, it is our job to nurture their scientific spirit and help students form questions, investigations, collect data, and share their conclusions. Make your science center amazing to enhance their experiences! Plus, I have a few freebies for your center too!
These 5 Senses Activities for Preschoolers will get little learners exploring science using all five senses.
The science center in my classroom is always a busy place. Students can observe, experiment, create, construct, classify, compare, and question. Students are natural-born scientists. They are curious and eager to explore the world and everything in it! As teachers, it is our job to nurture their scientific spirit and help students form questions, investigations, collect data, and share their conclusions. Make your science center amazing to enhance their experiences! Plus, I have a few freebies for your center too!
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The science center in my classroom is always a busy place. Students can observe, experiment, create, construct, classify, compare, and question. Students are natural-born scientists. They are curious and eager to explore the world and everything in it! As teachers, it is our job to nurture their scientific spirit and help students form questions, investigations, collect data, and share their conclusions. Make your science center amazing to enhance their experiences! Plus, I have a few freebies for your center too!
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Explore different materials and their properties with this engaging unit. Activities and printables for the Foundation and Prep Year chemistry strand.
Hi teacher friends, Are your elementary students studying Earth Science this year? I’ve always dreaded trying to hunt down lab supplies and equipment for science activities, but during the last few years I’ve been able to come up with little-to-no prep activities to teach Earth Science! These hands-on activities allow students to experiment and learn
I might have missed last week's Ten Pin but I am back in action for this one! Leave it to the linky parties to keep me blogging this Summer! Ashley at Just Reed combined Science and Social Studies and I am glad she did! I am seriously lacking in these subjects on my Pinterest boards! I'm hoping this linky will help beef them up! Be sure to leave me links to your science and social studies boards below so I can follow for more inspiration! Here are my top 10 Science and Social Studies pins! My top 5 science pins from my spectacular science pinboard! 1. I am obsessed with this nature table! What a perfect way to bring nature into the classroom and inspire budding scientists! Source cannot be found. Let me know if it is yours so I can credit! 2. Mr. Potato Head senses. I love the idea of using Mr. Potato Head to teach the senses! This craft goes great with playing with the actual toy to learn senses! Source cannot be found. Let me know if it is yours so I can credit! 3. Dancing Oobleck to teach sound waves! This was one of the coolest things I have ever seen! It is a must do in the classroom! Your kiddos will be amazed! Source: http://www.housingaforest.com/dancing-oobleck/ 4. Scientist bulletin board. I love driving home the fact that even the youngest of children are true scientists. This bulletin board is just an adorable way to do so! Source: http://www.pre-kpages.com/science/ 5. This steps the traditional celery trick up 10 notches! Look how amazing the colors are on this Napa cabbage! Can't wait to try it out in the Spring! Source: www.flickr.com/photos/mslaura/4023084459/ My top 5 social studies pins from my superb social studies pinboard! 1. Teaching diversity using eggs. Such a genius idea that is effective for conveying this important message to the youngest of children! Source: http://kidsactivitiesblog.com/23747/what-is-diversity 2. Classroom timeline in pictures. This is such a smart idea to document important events in the classroom. This will definitely be making an appearance in my future classroom! Source: mrstsfirstgradeclass-jill.blogspot.com/2011/10/first-grade-timeline.html 3. Creating a community wall mural. I love this idea! One of the first units we do is our neighborhood. This would be the perfect addition to the unit! I know the children would have fun with it as they love anything involving art! Source: http://aplacecalledkindergarten.blogspot.ca/2011/11/welcome-to-our-community.html 4. Personalized guess who! The possibilities are endless! I could see it being perfect using the historical figures from a 5th grade wax museum. It would be great to use to introduce the faculty at your school. You could use it for all the children in the classroom to get to know each other. Love this one! Source: http://mandydouglass.blogspot.com/2012/04/more-details-on-segment.html 5. I am all about free! I have so many collected paint samples that I wasn't sure what to do with them. Well now I am! These thankful turkeys are too cute for words! Love how simple and low prep they are! Source: http://preschoolalphabet.blogspot.com/2011/11/thanksgiving-is-just-around-corner-i.html Well there you have it! A small collection of some of my favorite science and social studies pins! I'm off to find some more fabulous pins out there and get those pin boards growing!
Lean how to spark curiosity in kids with easy to set up preschool science centers and science tables. Kids learn to think like scientists!
These 5 hands-on ways to sort by color are a great way to engage students in this essential early learning skill!
Turn your Kmart train table into a beautiful small world table. Perfect for imaginative play and learning activities for the classroom or home!
Brain Hemisphere Hat This is the “world-famous” Brain Hat. This humble little hat has been distributed around the world (even at some famous science museums) and has been translated in…
Learn the five ocean layers & which sea animals live in each zone with this colorful science experiment and habitat project for kids, tweens & teens!
After noticing children were building ramps for the trucks in the block center, I decided to set up this display in the science center to encourage more
If you have been following my blog this year since September, you may have remembered me mentioning that I have been trying to keep an ...
These 5 Senses Activities for Preschoolers will get little learners exploring science using all five senses.
One thing readers most request is inexpensive (or free) teaching materials. Here is the first "Teach with Trash" idea, and I plan to have more to come.
Ignite your child’s curiosity in geology with a rock exploration center! Collect some rocks from outside and gather a few materials, and your’e ready to encourage all kinds of rock investigation. It’s such an easy and fun way to foster a love of science within young children! Follow our Science for Kids Pinterest board! …
The science center in my classroom is always a busy place. Students can observe, experiment, create, construct, classify, compare, and question. Students are natural-born scientists. They are curious and eager to explore the world and everything in it! As teachers, it is our job to nurture their scientific spirit and help students form questions, investigations, collect data, and share their conclusions. Make your science center amazing to enhance their experiences! Plus, I have a few freebies for your center too!
Teach your young kids that they are natural scientists with by using the scientific method for preschoolers'. This simple guide and printables makes it fun and easy for young kids to engage with
This pine cone science experiment is something students are sure to remember. Students measure the size and shape, watch it sprout, and more!
As I have shared in a few other posts, in my classroom we work on a different theme for science every month at our "science" station (see this post for picture of the science station). In today's post, I mostly wanted to share if with you how I created this station and how I organize my materials. Creating this station was not easy or quick. It probably took me one full year to get everything done. But, now I am so glad I did, because I am able to use the same materials every year (although I still add a few new things each year too). The first thing I did was brainstorm as many science themes as I could and assigned them to different months that seemed appropriate. For example, I started with body parts because this is pretty easy (and an important concept) and my students would need to know body parts before working on the 5-senses (which we work on in April). I came up with 9 vocabulary words for each theme and created a matching sheet and writing worksheets for the vocabulary. Then, I started searching the internet for worksheets related to each topic. I used a lot of enchanted learning and boardmaker share worksheets. For everything I didn't find online, I created my own. For the first year, I focused most of my worksheets on learning the vocabulary associated with each topic. Once my kids got this down, I created worksheets that covered actual science concepts and learning facts about the topics. So, for each topic, I am now able to create an advanced packet and beginner packet. To organize all of my worksheets, I have put them into two binders. They are categorized by month. I have the vocabulary matching sheet in a toploading sheet, then the worksheets related to the theme (including science tests--a newer addition to the science station). Next, I started writing grants through donors choose, because I knew my kids would be bored crazy if we only did worksheets every week in science. So, using my science topics, I wrote grants for puzzles, games, hands-on activities, books, etc. Check out this post to see some tips on Donorschoose. I organize all of these in plastic tubs I got at Target in a closet. Each tub is labeled with the topic and month, and filled with hands-on activities for the theme. Each month, it is now super easy to set up our science unit...just make some photo copies of packets and pull out a tub of activities!
Explore different materials and their properties with this engaging unit. Activities and printables for the Foundation and Prep Year chemistry strand.
How can you stand on a paper cup without breaking it? The secret is in how you place the cups. Paper cup STEM Challenge for kids.
Learning about our amazing solar system is fun and easy with this printable memory game. Perfect for your homeschool science curriculum.
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