Kindergarten light and sound
How light travels and makes shadows and colours, and how sound is made and heard. Here is what we have for Kindergarten.
Lessons
Light and Shadows
Why does my shadow follow me, and why is it so long in the morning? Young scientists chase their shadows, track the Sun across the day and test which things let light through.
Sound: Can You See a Sound?
Can you see a sound? Young scientists make rice dance on a drum, talk through a string telephone and build a rubber-band guitar to find out that every sound starts with something shaking.
Earth and Sky at Home
Make a rainbow on the kitchen floor, grow crystals on a windowsill and build a cloud in a jar. Three classic home experiments that actually work, with the real science explained for grown-ups.
Online practice
- Sounds of consonant letters
- Sounds of short vowels
- Pick the letter for a sound
- Hear the first sound
- Hear the last sound
- Hear the middle vowel sound
- Blend sounds into a word
- Say a word without its first sound
- Add a sound to make a new word
- Spell a CVC word from its sounds
- Sun warms the ground
- Warm places and cool places
- Shade stays cool
- Hot and cold objects
- Protect from the sun
- Tools that block sun
- When to cover up
Light and sound in other grades:Grade 1Grade 2Grade 3Grade 4Grade 5Grade 6Grade 7Grade 8All grades