Kindergarten Science

Nature-related activities include studies of plants and animals include parts of various plants, vertebrates, habitats and weather conditions that support particular plants and animals and for the kindergarten level children, studies of the planets.

• Observation of animals in nature.

• First puzzles representing the biological parts of flowers, root systems, and trees, along with the anatomical features of common animals.

These are first used by very young children and puzzles, then as a means to learn the vocabulary, then are related to photos and/or the "real thing," then traced onto paper, and finally with labels as a reading experience.

Nomenclature Cards:

• Botany: identifying, naming, and labeling the parts of plants, trees, leaves, roots, and flowers.

• Zoology: identifying, naming, and labeling the external parts of human beings, insects, fish, birds, and other animals.

• Introduction of the families of the animal kingdom, and identification and classification of animals into the broad families. We also introduce the basic characteristics, lifestyles, habitats, and means of caring for young of each family in the animal kingdom.

• Introduction to ecology: habitat, food chain, adaptation to environment and climate, predator-prey relationships, camouflage, and other body adaptations of common animals.
• Advanced elementary biology study: the names and functions of different forms of leaves, flowers, seeds, trees, plants, and animals. This usually begins with considerably more field work collecting specimens or observing.

• Study of the parts of vertebrates: limbs, body coverings, lungs, heart, skeleton, reproduction.