Kindergarten - Science
6 printable versions - Building Confidence - About 6 minutes each
Kindergarten - Science - Building Confidence
Worksheet 1Is the pictured milk a solid or a liquid?
Which clue shows the wood block is a solid?
How should the wood block be sorted?
What happens when the metal coin moves to a new container?
Is the pictured water a solid or a liquid?
Which clue shows the milk is a liquid?
How should the water be sorted?
What happens when the milk moves to a new container?
Solids and liquids behave differently when they are moved. A solid keeps its own shape, although a soft solid may bend or squash. A liquid flows and takes the shape of its container while keeping the same material. Kindergarten children often classify by hardness, which can make a soft sponge seem liquid, or by wetness, which can make an ice cube seem liquid. The sequence models on this worksheet focus on observable behaviour instead: pick up or pour the sample, move it to a new place, and notice what happens to its shape. Support pages contrast blocks with water or milk. Challenge pages add ice and oil, requiring children to use the property rather than everyday temperature or texture. Read the three cards from left to right before choosing. If possible, follow the page with a safe investigation using a block and water in two containers. Ask what changed and what stayed the same, keeping the explanation concrete rather than introducing particle theory.
Water is poured from a cup into a bowl and takes the bowl’s shape. That flowing behaviour shows that water is a liquid.
Calling ice a liquid because it is made of water, even while the cube keeps its own shape.
Ask whether it keeps its shape or flows into the container’s shape.