What are some good science projects for a kindergardener?

Question

I am looking for some science projects to do with my daughter who is presently in kindergarden I am looking for kindergarden and 1st grade projects..

Answer 1

Here are 3 projects:

1. (Biology) Collect different kinds of leaves from trees. See how many different kinds she can find in the neighborhood. Divide them into groups. Identify them (Go to the nursery?) and which trees lose their leaves over the winter, which bear fruits, etc.

2. (Psychology) How many random numbers can your daughter memorize? How many letters, how many "things" can she memorize. Why does she think some are easier to memorize?

3. (Chemistry) Make a fulcrum using a ruler placed over a pencil. On one end place a candle and on the other end place pennies until it is balanced. When the candle is lit, it will go up. Why does it go up? What is different between a candle unlit and lit that makes the lit candle go up? Note that the difference is the flame that produces light you can see, heat that you can feel, and smoke that can be captured above the flame with something that is white.

Answer 2

a great project :

Frightened Pepper

Objective: To demonstrate cohesion – the force that holds a material, like water, together.

Materials:
• Bowl
• Black pepper
• Dish soap


Procedure:

1. Fill the bowl with water.
2. Sprinkle some pepper on to the surface of the water.
3. Rub soap on your finger, then touch the water where the pepper is.
4. The pepper will appear to "run" from the soap

The explanation as to why this happens can be found here:

http://www.aahom.org/pdf/dl_WaterWondersExtensions.pdf

I always though that trick was neat.

Answer 3

Here is the one my son did at your daughter's age: Showing how color is drawn up the xylem to appear in the petals of a flower. Purchase some daisies or chrysanthemums, place freshly cut stems in several containers with water and food coloring, and after a few days, the color will begin to appear in the petals of the flower.

For an added experiment, use colored sugar water (such as from a jar of Maraschino cherries.) Don't tell your daughter this, but that flower will not thrive. When we did this (I thought it was easy red coloring!) my son and I learned that the sugar molecules are too large to travel through the xylem.

Have Fun!

Answer 4

my sons class did this at xmas time u could just change it into a face doesnt have to be santa but they were cute and the kids had fun making them

You will need:

* Styrofoam Coffee Cup
* Potting Soil
* Red Felt, Beige felt
* White Cotton Balls
* Grass or Oat Seeds
* Scissors
* Glue
* Markers



1) Turn cup upside down and carefully punch two small holes into the bottom using a pencil or other pointed object.
2) Cut a strip of Red felt wide enough to cover the cup from middle of cup to bottom of cup. The strip should be long enough to wrap around the cup. Glue into place (This is Santa's suit). The place where the fabric meets will be the back of our Santa.
3) Draw a circle for Santa's head on the Beige felt. It should be approximately 2 1/2- 3 inches high--depending on the size of you cup. Draw a face on this circle with markers. Glue onto cup with top of circle at the brim of the cup and bottom of face touching the red felt already on cup.
4) Stretch out cotton balls until thin. These will be Santa's beard and hair. Glue these around the sides and bottom of face.
5) After glue is dry, carefully fill cup with potting soil. Lightly tamp down soil and moisten with water.
6) Sprinkle seed on top of soil and water in slightly. Soil should be moist, but not dripping wet. Place Santa cup in a window with good light. You may want to place a saucer or something under the cup to catch any excess water.
7) Water whenever soil begins to look dry. You may cover with plastic to help seeds start faster. Remove this plastic when the seeds start to sprout.
8) As grass grows, you can give Santa a hair cut with a scissors.
Santa's green hair is fun and kind of silly, but kids like it

Answer 5

Lisa Murphy, also called the Ooey Gooey lady, has the most awesome workshops on science and art projects for preschoolers and kindergarteners. I added a link from her website that has some ideas shown. If you ever have the opportunity to go see her, I would highly recommend it! She is high energy and has TONS of awesome, easy to do activities for kids of this age. She also has books available, they are probably on that site as well.

Answer 6

This one is.

pour 1 1/2 cups of milk in to a pan
let the kids put 5-10 drops of food coloring in it(don't stir)
then put out a little cup of dish soap
give them each a toothpick
let them put soap on the end of the toothpick a put it on a dot of color

they will be amazed

Answer 7

Maybe trying which color dissolves faster in water or glue
it might get sloppy with kindergardeners but they love colors and glue...so combine them into a project

Answer 8

well this is what i am doing in science and i am in 6th but anyways it is really fun and you have to help him or her!!
well you will make an edible cell!!
it sounds hard but it is not!
all you do is like make a cake or something and then make a nucleus which the nucleus should be a resse cup and the ribosomes should be tic tacs and the lysosme should be a cookie and the chloroplast should be gel!!
\and also you can look at pics at http://images.google.com/images?q=edible+cell+model&ndsp=20&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&start=0&sa=N&filter=0
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Answer 9

1. Plant two flowers in small planters - 4" or so. Put one in sunlight and another in darkness. See the differences in how they grow.
or
2. Get 4 flowers to demonstrate how each part is important. Cut the roots off of one and replant it. Cut the stem off of another and put the top back on top of soil. Cut the petals off of one and finally, cut the leaves off of the last one. Water them as needed and leave them in sunlight.

Answer 10

Using a ruler, growing a plant, growing a frog from a tadpole, or chicks from eggs (would take some $ for an incubator, though)