Kindergarten Science Lesson Plans

All About Our Senses

Length of Time: About 40 Minutes

Students will use their senses to try to identify common objects found in or around the classroom.

All About the Moon

Length of Time: About 45 Minutes

This lesson is designed for help students understand the importance of the moon. Through multiple
activities and demonstrations, students will learn the phases of the moon, what they look like, how it’s lit,
and how long it takes for the moon to revolve around the earth.

Astronauts
Length of Time: About 45 Minutes

This lesson is designed to help students understand the concept of outer space and astronauts. Through
multiple activities and discussions, students will learn who astronauts are, where they go, and how they
get there.

Bird Feeder Fun

Length of Time: 10-15 Minutes

Students will create an all natural bird feeder to hang near the school to feed birds during the various
seasons.

Classroom Garden From Trash

Length of Time: 10-15 per day for several weeks

Students will create several plants (a garden) from parts of a plant that are normally thrown away.

Keeping Warm in Winter

Length of Time: About 30 Minutes

Students will understand why animals store fat for the winter or colder months and how this affects how
temperature is felt. How does the environment and our protection of it help this?

Learning About Plants

Length of Time: About 45 minutes
This lesson is designed to teach students understand the elements of what a plant needs to grow, plus the
maintenance involved for upkeep.

Learning About Sand

Length of Time: About 45 minutes

This lesson is designed to help student’s discover what sand look like, how it’s made, and how can we
describe it.

Learning About The Sun

Length of Time: About 45 Minutes

This lesson is designed for help students understand day and night; daily changes in the length and
direction of shadows; and different positions of the sun, moon, and stars at different times of the day,
month, and year.

Learning About the Five Senses

Length of Time: About 45 Minutes

This lesson is designed to help students “observe common objects by using the five senses, describe the
properties of common objects, compare and sort common objects by one physical attribute,
communicate observations orally and through drawings.

Salt Water and Fresh Water

Length of Time: About 45 minutes

This lesson is designed to help students Communicate observations orally and through drawings.

Solar System
Length of Time: About 45 Minutes

This lesson is designed to help students understand that “the orbits of Earth around the sun and of the
moon around Earth, together with the rotation of Earth about an axis between its North and South poles,
cause observable patterns.

The Earth
Length of Time: About 45

This lesson is designed to help students understand Earth in relation to the Solar System. Through a series
or activities and interactive teaching, students will learn that the orbits of Earth around the sun and of the
moon around Earth, together with the rotation of Earth about an axis between its North and South poles,
cause observable patterns.

Weather In A Bottle
Length of Time: About 20 Minutes

Students will discuss types of weather and create their own tornado in a bottle.

Window Garden
Length of Time: About 20 Minutes. Several more days to watch growth process.

Students will plan, experiment, and observe as seeds grow in a window garden. Students will explore why
this is important to the sustainability of our environment.