Kindergarten Science practice sheet
Alabama Course of Study · from Gradelings · Name: ______________________
Question 1
How can you stop a rolling toy car?
🚗- 👀look at it
- 👏clap your hands
- ✋put your hand in front
✋ put your hand in front
Hint: Your hand pushes on the car and makes it stop.
Question 2
Two paper boats. One floats, one sinks. Which works better?
- They are the same
- The one that floats
- The one that sinks
- Neither one
The one that floats
Hint: A boat should float.
Question 3
Living or not living? Tap a picture, then its basket.
Sort into: 🌱 living · 🪨 not living
- 🪑chair
- ⚽ball
- 🐕dog
- 🧸teddy bear
- 🐦bird
- 🌳tree
🌱 living: dog, bird, tree · 🪨 not living: chair, ball, teddy bear
Hint: Living things grow and need water and air. Toys and spoons don't!
Question 4
Which one is living?
- 🌳tree
- 🪑chair
- 🪨rock
🌳 tree
Hint: A tree is alive. It drinks water and grows taller every year!
Question 5
A bee visits flowers. What do flowers give the bee?
🐝- a bed
- a house
- food (nectar)
food (nectar)
Hint: Living things help meet each other's needs.
Question 6
A pumpkin seed grows into a…
- bean plant
- corn plant
- pine tree
- pumpkin plant
pumpkin plant
Hint: Like its parent.
Question 7
Which one is found in nature?
🌲- 🪑a chair
- 🚗a car
- 🌲a pine tree
🌲 a pine tree
Hint: Trees grow by themselves in nature.
Question 8
A bird uses twigs to make a…
- dam
- web
- nest
- burrow
nest
Hint: A bird's home.
Question 9
Why do we sit under trees on hot days?
- The shade is cooler
- Trees make sunlight
- Trees are hot
- Trees make it rain
The shade is cooler
Hint: Leaves block the sun.
Question 10
Put the seasons in order. Start with spring.
- 🌷spring
- 🍂fall
- ☀️summer
- ❄️winter
spring → summer → fall → winter
Hint: Flowers grow in spring. Next comes hot summer, then leafy fall, then cold winter.
Answer key
- 1. ✋ put your hand in front (Push & Pull)
- 2. The one that floats (Make It Work)
- 3. 🌱 living: dog, bird, tree · 🪨 not living: chair, ball, teddy bear (What Living Things Need)
- 4. 🌳 tree (Living Things)
- 5. food (nectar) (What Living Things Need)
- 6. pumpkin plant (From Seed to Plant)
- 7. 🌲 a pine tree (Natural or Made)
- 8. nest (Where Animals Live)
- 9. The shade is cooler (Sun & Shade)
- 10. spring → summer → fall → winter (Weather & Seasons)
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