Kindergarten pictures from the STEAM Lab

Pattern blocks are always a good choice to encourage students to be creative. They enjoy making patterns as well as two-dimensional and even three-dimensional shapes!

Believe it or not, our kindergarten students understand capillary action! For this activity, they placed a paper towel across two cups filled with water.  The ends of the towel had color drawn on them with markers. When the students slightly submerged the tips into the water in each cup, capillary action made the colors seem to move across the towel producing a beautiful rainbow.

Students loved designing ramps for these pull back cars!  They experimented with the ramp being at a high angle and at a lower angle.  Admittedly, the cars can sometimes take turns without our permission! That could be both exciting and frustrating.

This activity brought amazement to the faces of our kindergarten students! They observed how you can color without using crayons, markers or paint. Instead, they added food coloring to plates with milk in them. Next, they dipped a cotton swab in dish soap and placed it gently in the middle of the plate. Ask your student what happened next.

It wasn't all just about creating art, but also introducing them to the Scientific Method. Each plate had a different type of milk-whole milk, 2% milk and fat-free milk. Students predicted if the food coloring and dish soap interaction would be the same or different for each of the milks. I wonder what would happen if we used chocolate milk or another type of milk?