Science Homeschool Curriculum Skills List | Secular Preschool

Science concepts create the themes for some of the units within Preschool Complete. The activities and experiments teach the grade-level skills in a fun and engaging way.

• Engage in sensory play activities.
• Participate in a sensory walk.
• Describe the weather.
• Identify a fragrance using the sense of smell.
• Use observation skills: make an observation and describe what was observed.
• Describe the texture of an item.
• Describe the feel of an object.
• Discuss healthful foods.
• Develop listening skills and repeat a pattern.
• Locate stars in the sky.
• Color a rainbow.
• Recognize the correct order of colors in a rainbow.
• Take a color walk and identify items of a given color.
• Make a prediction, and experiment to test the prediction.
• Make a boat.
• Discover objects that float and objects that sink.
• Test to see if an item will float.
• Test to determine how much weight a boat can support before sinking.
• Distinguish between different sounds.
• Combine colors to create new colors.
• Understand that some animals are appropriate as pets.
  
• Distinguish between living and non-living things.
• Understand what a plant needs to grow.
• Make a balloon terrarium.
• Learn how a hot air balloon flies.
• Make a paper mache hot air balloon.
• Learn about worms and their habitat.
• Learn about flowers.
• Learn the parts of a plant.
• Understand the stages of plant growth from seed to seedling.
• Understand what a plant needs to grow.
• Participate in a nature walk.
• Learn about types of bees and their jobs within the beehive.
• Learn the body parts of a bee.
• Use a sensory bin to model how bees make honey.
• Observe, taste, and describe a variety of apples.
• Grow apple seeds.