There are 31 total animals. If you correctly place 28 or more, you can print out a gold medal certificate with one of the animals. There are 31 total certificates you can earn, so play often and trade with your friends to collect them all. Solar System Maker. Description: This fun game allows students to create and print their own solar systems. They can specify planets, planet names, planet sizes, planet order, and whether or not planets have rings or moons.
Format: Online Activity. Dinosaur Maker - Online. Virtual Butterfly Garden - Online Game. Description: Design and name your butterflies and release them into the wild? How fast can you catch them? The twisting and turning butterflies are difficult to catch. Loads of fun! Space Quake. Description: In this fun game a spacequake occurs, which shuffles the order of the planets. Students must rearrange the orbiting planets in their correct order from the sun.
If students successfully complete the game, they can print out a collectible certificate featuring one of the planets. Students can try to collect all eight planetary certificates plus Pluto or can trade with friends. Grade Levels: 2, 3, 4, 5. Setting the Periodic Table. Description: This interactive periodic table has two functions: First, it allows students to scroll over the entire table and click on any element to learn all about it. Second, it includes a game that requires students to identify as many elements based on their abbreviations as possible in two minutes.
It allows students to choose their skill level. Grade Levels: 4, 5, 6. Insect Generator - Online Game. Description: This game allows students to mix and match the parts of six different insects to create their own superbug. Students can enter text to name their bug and to describe it.
It prints out beautiful and works on all devices. Description: This is a "jeopardy" like game on United States Presidents. It's super fun for classrooms, individuals, or small teams, totally customizable. Uncheck "teams take turns" to make it more exciting for kids.
Type: Social Studies Fun. Firefly Nights - Online Game. Description: Firefly Nights in a mesmerizing game that requires students to build and identify the flash pattern of their personal fireflies, among an ever-increasing number of flashing fireflies. Type: Math Game. Grade Levels: 3, 4, 5, 6.
Animal Idol - Online Game. Description: Welcome to Animal Idol. In this game, your knowledge of the animal and plant kingdoms will be tested like its never been tested before. Each round has a different theme and the questions are tough. Instead of listening to the kids whine, send them on a treasure hunt! Ditch the workbooks and printables! Teach counting, math facts, and more with these hands-on preschool math activities.
There are so many benefits to gardening with kids. With this amazing collection of ideas and activities, your kids can learn about plants, try new foods, and tend their own garden spots.
I love being able to incorporate the holidays into our homeschool lessons. This easy candy science project is perfect for St. Find Skittle science, walking rainbows, catapults and more in this collection. Spring is the best time of year to learn about butterflies. Come discover how you can celebrate Learn About Butterflies Day! Making a rain cloud in a jar is a great way to explore weather with your preschoolers and young learners.
Do your preschoolers love being outdoors? Do they love exploring nature? Combat summer boredom with five simple science experiments for kids. Take advantage of all the new that spring has to offer, and incorporate as many of these spring science experiments for preschoolers as you can!
Engage your preschoolers this summer with one or more of these jar science experiments! Easy science experiments for young learners! Follow this simple recipe for homemade frozen sidewalk chalk for kids. Follow this simple tutorial to make a frog life cycle candy science craft! Bring science to life with this fun, educational activity. Add one or more of these science activities to your apples preschool theme. The kids will love it! Honey bees for kids!
While walking the neighbourhood with my 3 year old, playing a game of recognizing numbers on the doors as we were waking by and learning the order in which to read them. My son is almost 2 and very curious. Ive always loved science and cant wait to share it with him! Would love this book. Thanks for the giveaway! A lot of these look like fun, especially the color mixing and the sun-sensitive paper and are on our science bucket list! We are experimenting with blowing air and making bubbles in water with my 2 yr old.
He thoroughly enjoys the forming and bursting of the bubbles. As an expansion of a sink or float experiment, we added salt to a tall glass and found things that would float in the salt water and not the fresh water. My three year old loved it because we related it to the ocean and sharks! Neat idea. We may have to try that one soon. Magic milk and the bubbling baking soda!!
She loves to try out different objects and see if her predictions are right or not. We do whole science and math, and literacy unit on the life cycle of monarch butterflies. I generally goes on for about weeks. Fascinating study with tons of learning opportunities! We are going to try the sun prints!
Living in sunny Florida, this would be perfect! I like the idea of laminating the prints for other activities matching, puzzles. The tree blocks experiment sounds like a great one to add to our tree activities!
Some one gave me some sun-senstive paper so we are going to try out making sun prints. I love projects where I can mix science and art. We still love baking soda and vinegar here, especially when my guy integrates hotwheels into the mix! We loved watching the seed grow. My little girl loves coming back throughout the day and week to gasp periodically, even if nothing noticeable had changed I think she genuinely enjoys gasping, haha.
It also helped show what was going on under the soil in the garden in a way that she could actually see. My son loves balloons we have only done water balloons and this will be both fun and educational!
My 4 year old really enjoyed the classic sink or float game. We played it outside, and he kept looking for more things to test. Did the baking soda balloons- did it for the science fair. It was fun to let the ballon go after it inflated, plus it was another opportunity to talk about physics. Wil do the colour mixing next. My son is still young but he loves banging different objects in the floor so i have a few homemade shakers filled with different materials to produce different sounds.
We also like sink and float objects in the bath tub! She loves learning the different stages of a seed to a plant! We love the make your own bubbles experiment in our house. However, we add two different colors of food coloring to our water and guess what color the water will turn for added fun!! My little ones love any experiment involving water, bubbles or sand. Just from the experiments listed above, this looks like a fun book.
These excerpts look amazing. I have 3 grandkids who pretty much watch TV, play video games, and play outside. I like to do interesting things with them. My grandson 4 loves balloons so the experiment to blow balloons up with the reaction of vinegar and baking soda would be a great one for him.
I would love to get a book to find out other interesting things to do with the kids. I would love to make those giant bubbles that you can put over kids. I think my kids would get such a kick out of it. My son loves cars so it was fun to add some learning to his imaginative play. I work for an after school program for at-risk youth called After-School All-Stars.
Each year we try to incorporate more and more STEM activities. Last year we had a whole 8 week session called Wacky Science for our 3rd graders.
They LOVE anything with baking soda and vinegar :. I love to make play dough with my son. We have now collected a container with various magnets and sometimes we take it out to explore. Balloon rockets on a string most certainly appeals to the testosterone filled little boys too — fast and furious!
We have done the incline with cars before and they just loved it ages 4 and 2. I want to try the color change flow one soon with them. I am a big supporter of using familiar items found around the house for science exploration! Simple things like cardboard, twinkle lights and an old plastic bin can make for a day full of fun! Then I punch holes in the cardboard following his pattern. We can gaze up at the starlit sky above! Twinkle lights are also great inside a clear plastic container, the kind you would use for under the bed storage.
Pile the lights in the bin and snap on the lid. Just drill a hole in one side to allow the cord to poke through so that you can plug it in. Now you have a very cool light box that you can play with at home! I remember doing sink and float science when I was a little girl! Those were some of my favorite science lessons in school.
I love doing sink and float experiments with my kiddos. The bubbles just add to their excitement! We have a chart that they keep circling which items may sink and which will float and they end up giggling each time they are right. My son loves the Go Cars, Go, with inclined planes.
Good news for me! We like melting ice with slat, making play-dough and doing the milk , food coloring and soap experiment. My boys are 6, 3. My kids love doing experiments and our nanny is constantly looking for new ideas. I am going to plan on doing the Bubbling Baking Soda this weekend.
Yesterday my kids discovered film canister rockets, so those are currently the favorite. My oldest assigned jobs to his little sibs, so one fills the canisters with water, one opens the alka seltzer packets, one wraps the toilet paper, and they must have set off 20 yesterday!
I think we need to do the balloons next. THanks for the chance to win! I have a 2year old boy and anything to do with cars is his favorite activity.
Or anything messy. I have been wanting to try the balloon experiment with baking soda and vinegar. I keep forgetting where I hid the leftover balloons from his birthday party! Love this site! There are so many fun activities to do. Thanks for all of our fun!!! I have two toddlers and their favorite thing to do is mix colors. We often mix paint while finger painting or use different colors in ziploc bags.
Always love making the 2 liter bottle tornado as well. Students love to make the tornado go. Instead of vinegar, we mix Koolaid with baking soda, then drip water in to make fizzy eruptions. Smells better, many colors, and turns into oobleck for a second experiment if you get the soda to water ratio right. So much to do and so natural too. I have used magnets with my kids to do science experiments — a fun activity for children and adults! We love the volcano exploding experiment.
But I am excited to try out the ivory soap experiment. I liked one where we mixed baking soda and carbonated beverage to make it explode. My son loved it. My daughter is still pretty young but we love to play with bubbles and count different objects, like beads and toys. We look all over the house preparing for the fun we will have when play scientist! Our fav experiments are colour changing flowers or celery, expanding foam, colour coffee filters to name a few x.
And here is my tweet. Scientific thinking enables children to gain an understanding of the world in which they live. Encourage them to ask questions and use simple tools as they make comparisons.
As we respond to youngsters, answer their questions, and show examples, we can help develop their ability to draw conclusions from observations. It is crucial for children to be exposed to science and math. It helps them to grow and learn on many different levels. My boys love putting together rockets to see how they work! They love the science behind the fact you can make something go shooting up in the air :.
My almost 4 yr old loves playing with ninegar,baking soda,and colored water. I set up serving platter with the ingredients and small bowls and let her have at it. Lots of fun! I can still remember making homemade ice cream with my mom in our kitchen as a kid! This will always be one of my favorite science experiments and desserts!
Right now we are learning about air and bubbles.. We analyzed how the fake blood splattered on different surfaces, in motion and not, and from differing heights. His teacher loved it and kept it for future classes to see. My degree is in forensics and the lab manufactured blood was left over from labs I had I school so reacts exactly as real blood would. He had fun and learned a lot. I home educate my three children ages 7, 8 and Thanks for the review post….
I love to discover new resources for our upcoming year. This is entering for the book giveaway. They loved it and could wait to blow gazillions of bubbles in the bathtub each nite. We have also repurposed crayons. We peeled the labels off the old crayons that were small and rarely used. We put the in a mold that was sprayed with Pam. Now, we have new crayons that are multi colored and even taught the kids about mixing colors each time they use them.
I enjoy doing the Sink and Float activity with my two year olds. I incorporate this into different themes throughout the year and use different materials.
Our family did the bubbling baking soda together. These experiments are so much fun. The learning just happens. We have a 9 and 12 year old.
They are still fascinated by this stuff. We are too : Then we made all kinds of shapes out of the balloons while they were still attached to the top of the bottles. And then we tried making noises when taking the balloons off the bottles. The fun kept going. Of course, we did talk about solids, liquids and gases and how it worked while we were doing it.
The boys tied it back into what they had learned it school and added some of their own thoughts. I tweeted my response! My daughter loves blowing up balloons with baking soda and vinegar. My 3 year old daughter loves adding and subtracting cheese fishes. So do I , Yummy! Our favorite one so far though is filling colored vinegar in suringes and squirting baking soda on a baking sheet. We also love blowing colored bubbles!
Great ideas! Im going to try the blow up balloon and erupting volcano with the kids! Would love to have the book for more inspiration! My toddler loved the ivory soap in the microwave and we painted on black construction paper afterwards!
I am going to make the bubble solution, mixing colors, and blow up the balloons this week! Thanks I needed some new activities to do. My little girl, almost 4, loves science and I struggle to find things she can do and understand. We love to do science activities, especially anything that involves water! We love the bubble experiments! They love trying to see who can get the biggest bubbles. Our favorite math activity is playing with a deck of cards, we play math match for my older son and memory match with matching numbers for my younger son.
We love making soda explosion! We have learned that regular coca cola makes the highest soda stream compared to diet soda and sprite. We constructed a plastic tube with a pull out bottom so we pour in the mentos, pull the string and run! This summer we have been practicing being scientists, studying dinosaurs a favorite of the kids , stars, rocks and water to name a few.
We have done quite a few on this list together, however; he can never seem to get enough of the Erupting Volcano! Its so fun! The last time we did it, we build the volcano at the beach and added lava red food coloring too! Needless to say, our sandcastle with an Erupting Volcano was a hit with ALL the children on the beach that day…we definitely drew a crowd over :. My three year old never tires of this! Now that they are older the volcano experiment is their favorite! My favorite science activity to do with preschoolers is liquid, solid, gas.
Add a little bit of Dawn dish soap. Then, using tongs, place a small block of dry ice into the tank. The children can see the dry ice turning into gas which in turn makes the dish soap in the aquarium bubble! Our favorite recent experiment was using pH paper to test every liquid we could find in the house. I am happy to have found you guys through Hands on as we grow. Does observation count as an activity? We had an amazing time watching ants carry off sprinkles it looked like the dinosaur-shaped sprinkles were walking away on their own and disappearing into the crack on our porch!
We also observe what we hear and sometimes what we smell. He loves learning the special names for different flowers, animals, and all manner of things, and I love sharing them with him!
I really enjoy the bubbles and so do the kids! The books seems to have a lot of different ideas that would work great for my age ranges! Too cool! My 2yo loves cars, so I made her a giant parking lot with coloured spaces and we sort her many! My kids love anything that involves mixing baking soda and vinegar! A new favorite is whipping a squirt of dish soap with a cup of water in my mixer and watching the bubbly foam form. Then they MUST play in it! To prepare for garden work and learning colors we experimented with celery in a variety of colored waters.
My little one loved mixing the colors and she was so patient waiting to see what the results were. Also, at 2. I am excited to do more bubble activities as blowing is one of the skills she has been working on to prepare for our swim lessons this summer. Since I will be teaching her to swim we can also incorporate the sink or float into our lesson days. Learning through play is really the only way!
She is floating in the tub all on her own and it will be fun for her to compare and guess what will float better or worse than her and why. Thanks for this chance to win a great tool! We love doing the experiments with baking soda and vinegar like the balloon one. Our favorite science experiment is kool aid, baking soda, and water.
However, I think my students would especially love the activities in Chapter 3! I love that these are hands-on activities for younger children.
We like to make our own percussion instruments with glasses filled with different levels of water, different materials of boxes and containers, as well as empty tin cans etc. My boys love water balloons so to make the sensory play a bit more educational, I wrote the alphabet out with sidewalk chalk and then they had to find a certain letter to pop their balloon on it also gave me a bit more time for filling balloons; BONUS!
Thanks for all the great ideas!! I love doing sink and float activities with my daughter- it never gets old. She can almost guess the right answer for every object.
Thank you for all the brilliant and fun ideas! This book sounds cool. Blowing bubbles in the bubble solution is fun! These are great by the way. My favorite science demo is probably bottles filled with oil and water with food coloring. This post reminded me to get out the vinegar and baking soda and all the activities that can go with those ingredients!
The volcano is definitely my favorite idea. My daughter and I grow strawberries and tomatoes in the back garden, and each season we have three different tubs for each, all with different levels of sunlight, water, fertiliser and regular hands-on attention. We keep a journal to track which set of conditions work best, and then tweak them next season. It makes gardening even more fun and the resulting food taste even better! My daughter and I have done the Rainbow milk explosion, long story short the milk fat content reacts with food coloring and Dish soap creating a explosion of color.
Our all time favorite science experiment is liquid and solid play with Oobleck! We made oobleck at the end of a Dr. Seuss author study and explored different states of matter in my kindergarten class! My class always LOVE the baking soda and vinegar exploding volcanoes or in pumpkins in the fall. These are so fun!!! Now that I have read them and I see that we had done the recommended sink and float on our own. And he loved it he played for hours and I made a chart with drawing of the items so he could stripe them sinker or floater and he loved that too, I think it made him feel like a grown up.
So I will try the others. No tweet but did share on my FB. We had lots of fun building boats from household products and seeing how much weight they would hold. My boys definitely love anything involving baking soda and vinegar! Some favorites have been exploding ornaments at Christmas time and fizzy drops with droppers. This book looks wonderful, thanks for the opportunity!
We love baking soda and vinegar eruptions! Your email address will not be published. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. My little one loves water! My favorite experiments are color mixing with water or paint! We love anything to do with bubbles! My boys love bubbles. Anything to do with bubbles is mesmerizing. Love it we keep looking for science experiment for our school fair my son 4 th grade. My son loves science experiments. We plan to do them all.
Thanks for sharing!! I love anything with baking soda and vinegar…my girls love watching it fizz! My kids love to play with bubbles. She often asks to wash together with me for that. I like the sink or float experiment. Perfect for bathtime or playing in the pool. We love the sink or float! We love to put flowers in water and food dye and watch them change colors. My son is volcano mad so we love do the erupting volcano!! He loves it every time.
My kids probably enjoyed the naked egg experiment the most! Bubble Blowing is always fun with toddlers!
We enjoy doing soda bottle science projects. Like baking soda blowing up a balloon. I would like to try the balloon and the baking soda experiment. My kids love the bubbling baking soda experiment.
They love watching the balloon inflate. I did the sink and float but modified it using fruits and vegetables. We love to make flubber white school glue, borax, water and food coloring. My 3 year old son loves the volcano. We are trying the ivory soap next.
Cant wait! Great fun for all ages! Baking soda, dish soap and vinegar in a bottle. This summer we love to watch our garden grow and play with cornstarch and water!
Love all the water experiments for the hot summer. Fun and cooling! I love the classic sink or float experiment. My 2 year old enjoyed this very much. So, being able to make our own solution is wonderful.
I would love to try the volcano experiment! We would have so much fun with that!
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