Kindergarten Science Lesson - Push and Pull Marble Experiment

If you are looking for a complete lesson and materials to engage your kindergarten students in meaningful science instruction on pushes and pulls, then look no further!

This resource is a great introduction to the concepts of push and pull. If you need a full unit, however, I encourage you to check out my Kindergarten Push and Pull Bundle, as it includes this intro lesson, 3 more connected lessons and a decodable book on pushes and pulls and it is a much better value than purchasing each item individually (see link below).

This lesson will engage your students from the very beginning. It gets them thinking about how to increase the speed of an object and it has them recording data and writing about their findings and their thinking. There are 2 options for recording sheets (one with a challenge question and one without). You will need to supply some materials to make this experiment work, so let me get that out of the way for you:

YOU will need to supply:

- a marble

- 4 shoebox sized sterilite type totes WITH their lids

- a ramp or something you could use as a ramp

- masking tape

- a timer or stopwatch

- I find clipboards to be helpful for students but not 100% necessary

Included in this resource, you will RECEIVE:

- 2 recording sheet options: one has a challenge question at the bottom, one does not- choose the one that works best for you based on your students and your instructional style

- a Scientist's Log that asks students to make a claim based on their observations from the experiment and support it with some evidence from their data (a simpler, more kindergarten friendly version of a CEI- Claim, Evidence, Interpretation).

- an answer key for the recording sheet

- a full materials list with more details than above and set-up instructions as well as tips and tricks

- step by step lesson instructions including dialogue ideas, questions to ask, and entry points for connecting to prior knowledge

- this resource is activated in TPT Easel so you can project the student pages in Student View to model the recording for your students

- The number of pages is listed as 3 + 5 because there are 3 student pages and 5 lesson plan pages (there are also 2 pages detailing the set-up and 1 page detailing the materials)

This is meant to be an introductory lesson and connects beautifully to the remaining lessons in my Push and Pull Bundle. This lesson primarily deals with pulls and with increasing the speed of an object. This lesson CAN stand alone and CAN work with other lessons you may already have in your own push and pull unit. Year after year, students ask me to repeat the experiment over and over again. They are captivated by pushes and pulls and by their chance to be scientists.

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