Engage your Grade K child in fun hands-on projects that develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
Topics within each STEM challenge target earth, life, and physical science.
Each unit covers a specific scientific concept and includes:
- Science Story: Introduces each science concept
- Practice Activities: Support children’s understanding
- STEM Story: Fictional story with a problem to solve
- STEM Challenge: Hands-on activity to solve a problem
- STEM Journal: Provides a planning outline to help complete the challenge activity
Kindergarten STEM skills include:
- Comparisons
- Letter formation
- Fine motor skills
- Cause and effect
- Visual discrimination
- Sequencing
- Inference
Kindergarten activities incorporate these scientific concepts: Physical science
- Shapes, Sizes, and More
- Solids and Liquids
- Does the Magnet Stick?
- Wheels Do the Work
Life science
- What Plants Need
- What Animals Need
- Plant Parts
- Living Things
- People Grow and Change
Earth science
- Bodies of Water
- Seasons
- Rocks
The STEM challenges and activities encourage your child to think creatively and explore different ideas to solve problems. Parents act as facilitators, guiding their children through the problem-solving process.
Each unit includes stories and practice pages that help children understand science concepts and provide a foundation for completing each STEM challenge. A STEM journal activity helps guide children through the engineering design process: plan, create, test, and record.
Includes answer key.
Be sure to check out the entire Smart Start series for early learners that includes Reading & Writing, Phonics & Spelling, Sight Words, Phonics & Spelling, and Coding activity books!
