Kindergarten Explores Science

By Constance Maxwell

The excitement of sparks flying from a Wimshurst machine, the mystery of toy spiders crawling down a wall, the temptation to pick up a pig thats only an image, and the sight of overlapping images in Iceland spar all are shown with photographs and accompanying descriptions.
The beauty of science and the power of the Creator are revealed as your child:
Watches light navigate the curves in a light tube
Touches a vibrating tuning fork
Balances a toy bird on its beak
Floats coins on water
Hears the Doppler effect
Watches red, blue, and green lights produce white light
Kindergarten Explores Science reveals the delights of the physical world that God has given us.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 10, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481759854

Constance Maxwell

At the close of her forty-nine years as a science teacher, Constance Maxwell has written “Kindergarten Explores Science.” A graduate of Belhaven University, Maxwell earned advanced degrees from Troy University and from the University of Southern Mississippi. After traveling from place to place with her Army husband, she now lives with her adult grandson, Jamie, in Lafayette County, Mississippi.

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CONTENTS

Preface

Forward Or Backward?

The Bouncing Dart

Double Cone And Ramp

Loop-The-Loop

Sound

The Doppler Effect

Can You Pick Up The Pig?

Refraction Of Light

Reflection

Iceland Spar

Polaroid Lenses

Spectra

Mirrors

Radiometer

Thermometers

Solar Energy

Fluorescence

Color Addition

Newton’s Cradle

The Penny In The Balloon

Inertia Ball

Tops

Pull-Back Toys

Happy/Sad Balls

The Coriolis Effect

Gyroscope

Water

Surface Tension Of Water

Tornado

Test For Starch

Fulgarite

Static Electricity

Wimshurst Machine

Lodestone

Bar Magnet

Doughnut Magnets

Magnetic Globe

The Revolution Strobe

Electromagnet

Gravity

Pendulum

Radiation

Alpha, Beta, And Gamma

Unusual Rocks

The Drinking Bird

Balance

Mr. Woody

Suppliers

To the 2012 Graduating Class

of

Regents School of Oxford

Sara, Ryan, Devin

They loved science.

Preface

This volume is a collection of science activities that I prepared during the school years 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 for the Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten students at Regents School of Oxford, Mississippi.

Constance Maxwell

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Forward or Backward?

When the Israelites wanted to go somewhere, either they walked or they rode a donkey. Today we can travel on bicycles or in cars and trucks.

When you went somewhere with your family, perhaps the driver had to slam on the brakes at an intersection. What happened to the parcels on the car seat? They moved forward very fast. We can investigate what happens if we use a toy truck with a shirt button in the center of the truck bed.

Push the truck forward, and let it bump into something. What happened to the button? It slid forward, didn’t it? Now let’s see what would happen if the moving truck were hit from the back. Push the truck forward. While it is still rolling forward, hit it from behind. What happened to the button this time? It moved backwards in the truck.

Sir Isaac Newton understood why buttons, packages, and other objects shift position in a moving object. He explained that things in motion tend to stay at the same speed. The button moved forward when the truck stopped because it was trying to continue at the same speed as before. The button moved backward when the truck was hit from behind because the button was trying to move at the same speed as before.

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The Bouncing Dart

Car manufacturers know that safe cars need elastic parts that bounce in case of a crash. If there weren’t any bouncing parts, a car could be terribly crushed.

One way to make these bouncing parts is to use rubber. Rubber, or course,