Kindergarten space inquiry

Space Activities for Preschool, Pre-k, and Kindergarten. This post includes 20+ of the best space-themed activities and centers for your early childhood classroom or homeschool. Ideas include literacy, math, fine motor, gross motor, sensory bins, sensory bag, art, and STEM. Your little astronauts will LOVE this unit if they love learning about space. Add these to your lesson plans and have fun learning about space! #preschool #prek #kindergarten

The kids have been asking a lot of questions about space. I started out by setting out some invitations to learn around the room for them to explore the Earth and the moon during Thinking, Learning and Dicovering Time, inviting them to look closer and document what they noticed. We looked closer at maps and the kids created their own maps of a community complete with symbols, a key, and a rose compass. They kept asking what the earth was made of so we investigated the inside of the earth and…

Space activities and centers (literacy, math, fine motor, stem, blocks, sensory, and more) for preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten students.

The last two weeks, we've been focusing on our Space unit. I always start with the moon. They always love learning about the moon. We made our Schema chart (I always use 2 different color sticky notes to show the old vs. new learning) and added to it throughout the first week. Here are some of the books we read throughout the unit... And throughout the unit, I showed some videos on YouTube about being in space, as an astronaut. I have a few different videos saved on my {SPACE CHANNEL} if you…

Math and literacy space activities for kindergarten. Have fun with these engaging centers while learning about stars and planets.

In the last couple weeks of school, we decided to do an inquiry about the sky. Our Driving Questions were, "What do we see in the daytime sky? What do we see in the nighttime sky?" The sun, moon and stars are in Ohio's science standards, but the students always end up being fascinated. The things they said they see were the pretty colors of the sky, clouds, rainbows, the sun, stars and moon. After we listed these, they started telling me things they noticed that happens in the sky, and then…

These edible constellations are easy peasy and perfect for tot school, preschool, or the kindergarten classroom.

How planets orbit the sun: This super simple Montessori-inspired activity gives kids a hands-on and concrete way to understand how planets orbit the sun in a large circle || Gift of Curiosity

Star Stamping! A fun hands-on way to talk about stars and the solar system with toddlers and preschoolers. Great activity for a space unit! #teachingspace #solaractivities #spaceactivities

The kids have been asking a lot of questions about space. I started out by setting out some invitations to learn around the room for them to explore the Earth and the moon during Thinking, Learning and Dicovering Time, inviting them to look closer and document what they noticed. We looked closer at maps and the kids created their own maps of a community complete with symbols, a key, and a rose compass. They kept asking what the earth was made of so we investigated the inside of the earth and…