Kindergarten Classroom activity
The Soak Test at Clovergate School: Grass Against Pavement
A kindergarten activity where the class pours the same cup of water on a tilted grass tray and a tilted pavement tray, then compares what runs off each one.
These materials teach earth science, chemistry, biology, and physics through water systems, from the water cycle to treatment chemistry.
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Kindergarten Classroom activity
A kindergarten activity where the class pours the same cup of water on a tilted grass tray and a tilted pavement tray, then compares what runs off each one.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A kindergarten lesson across four short sittings where the class checks the grass on three mornings, charts which ones had dew, and finds where the dew goes.
Kindergarten Reading passage
A kindergarten read-aloud about a fictional town whose crew fills the hilltop tank before a storm, so taps still run after the wind knocks the power out.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A kindergarten activity where the class acts out a town water tank filling all night from one slow pump and emptying fast when six houses wake up at once.
Kindergarten Reading passage
A kindergarten read-aloud about a fictional town whose class rain chart runs almost empty in July, the creek drops, and neighbors find ways to use less water.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 35-minute kindergarten lesson where the class catches the cold water that runs while a sink warms up, counts the cups it fills, and finds a use for it.
Kindergarten Writing prompt
A kindergarten draw-and-dictate prompt where students make a park sign telling visitors one way to keep a fictional duck pond clean, and why that action helps.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students read clues in three jars of brook water, sort what floats in one of them, and name one way to keep the brook clean.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students compare a sunny puddle and a shady puddle measured in paper squares at two times of day and say where the water went.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students trace rain downhill across a fictional schoolyard, decide whether a leaf-covered drain can work, and get ready for a big storm.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A kindergarten activity where students stand in a line as a water pipe, pass cups from the well tub to the tap tub, and find out what one gap in the line does.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A kindergarten station activity where partners wash hands two ways at a fictional school, pour the water they used into two clear jugs, and compare which jug holds more.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 40-minute kindergarten lesson where students build a tall block water tower and a short one, test which sends water farther down a tube, and count the blocks in each.
Kindergarten Reading passage
A kindergarten read-aloud about a girl whose grandpa washes the car on the grass so soapy water sinks in instead of running to the creek where ducks swim.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students sort six morning picture cards from a fictional school weather chart into cold and warm piles, count each pile, and compare them.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 40-minute kindergarten lesson at a fictional school where students set out two rain catchers overnight, compare what each caught, and water the class plants with it.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 35-minute kindergarten lesson at a fictional school where students compare clear and painty rinse water, learn where the drain goes, and make a wipe-first rule sign.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet on a fictional town where students compare Cobbin Creek before and after a day of rain and work out where all that water came from.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A kindergarten movement game where students act out four water cycle stations, choosing which stations to play based on that day's real weather chart.
Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten science worksheet where students trace and count the steps of a fictional reservoir's water path to the tap, from Clearwater Hill to a kitchen sink.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A kindergarten relay game where two teams race to collect only the litter scattered near a fictional pond, then count and compare their totals.
Kindergarten Reading passage
An original kindergarten read-aloud story that follows a single water drop from a fictional reservoir through a treatment plant and tower to a school sink.
Kindergarten Lesson plan
A 30-minute kindergarten lesson where students sort trash from natural objects found near a fictional creek and draw one way to help keep it clean.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
A kindergarten activity where small groups test two cardboard channel designs, racing a cotton-ball raindrop into a cup drain to compare which design works better.