Children are provided varied opportunities and materials to learn key content and principles of science such as
- the difference between living and nonliving things (e.g., plants versus rocks) and life cycles of various organisms (e.g., plants, butterflies, humans).
- earth and sky (e.g., seasons; weather; geologic features; light and shadow; sun, moon, and stars).
- structure and property of matter (e.g., characteristics that include concepts such as hard and soft, floating and sinking) and behavior of materials (e.g., transformation of liquids and solids by dissolving or melting).
During the year we complete many different types of investigations. Some past topics have been colors, animals, weather, sound, gardening, seasons and water. We tend to focus on the children’s interest. During the spring we hatch baby ducks & chicks, the children learn about the life cycle of the animals and how to take care of them after they are born.
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Children are provided varied opportunities and materials that encourage them to use the five senses to observe, explore, and experiment with scientific phenomena.
The sensory table offers the children many opportunities to use their five senses. The items in the table are rotated weekly. The children have explored flour, water, rice, soil, cotton and pasta. We also have monthly cooking projects where the children learn to observe and experiment with are creations.
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Children are provided varied opportunities to use simple tools to observe objects and scientific phenomena.
The children enjoy using the magnifying glasses, light table & clip boards to better help with their observations.
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Children are provided varied opportunities and materials to collect data and to represent and document their findings (e.g., through drawing or graphing).
The children often draw pictures to document and represent their findings. 
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Children are provided varied opportunities and materials that encourage them to think, question, and reason about observed and inferred phenomena.
The children often have spontaneous conversations about current investigations. We also have large group discussions during circle time.
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Children are provided varied opportunities and materials that help them learn and use scientific terminology and vocabulary associated with the content areas.
The children are provided with books and magazines to better help them learn about scientific terminology.