Engage your class in a selection of grade-specific, standards-based activities! All activities and lessons were carefully crafted with an eye towards Next Generation Science Standards for Kindergarten students.
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Transform your kindergarteners into scientists as they look for patterns in what plants and animals need to survive. Explore how keepers care for animals at the California Science Center to understand the relationship between what living things need and the environments in which they live.
K-LS1-1, K-ESS2-2, K-ESS3-1, and K-ESS3-3
Join our educators to discover different enclosures in the World of Life Discovery Room and the Ecosystems gallery and learn how our keepers provide all the things necessary for plant and animal survival in different environments.
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Students will play a game as a keeper to determine what the animals at the California Science Center need to stay alive. Through the game, students will discover patterns in how animals receive food, water, shelter, and air from their environment.
Take your kindergarten scientists on a virtual field trip to the California Science Center to figure out what happens when the sun shines on an object. Students will be given a variety of scenarios to explain their thinking.
K-PS3-1 and K-PS3-2
Join our educators to figure out what’s causing different temperatures around the California Science Center.
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Students will paint with water to explain what they think happens when the sun shines on a surface.
