Kindergarten students can learn to identify water in liquid and frozen form. Fill a large bowl or sensory table with water. Encourage students to place their hands in the water and describe how it feels. Next, ask students to help you fill ice trays with water, enough for each student to have one ice cube. When the water in the ice trays is frozen, give each child a plastic bowl and an ice cube. Ask students to compare the ice cube to the water they touched earlier. Use student observations to discuss solids and liquids.
Use pictures to help students find shapes all around them, recommends the website Education. Take kindergarteners outside and take pictures of your school and the surrounding area. Make copies of the pictures and ask students to work in groups to identify shapes, such as rectangles in buildings or circles and ovals in the clouds. Give the children paper and markers to use simple shapes to draw a picture of their homes.
Help students discover the different ways that objects move with dominoes. Invite the children to help you set up dominoes in a row around the classroom. Ask them to predict what will happen if you knock down the first domino, and see if their predictions apply when one domino goes down. Set up the dominoes again and try knocking down a domino in the middle; ask students to watch to see if the dominoes fall differently. Let students work in groups to set up and knock down the dominoes.
Ask students to hit two wooden blocks together and observe the sound they make. Next, ask students to hit the blocks against a table or carpet to see how the sound changes. Move to different areas of the school to see if the sounds change: For example, take students to a hallway or empty classroom to listen for an echo.