Usborne Big Book of Experiments – I love this science resource book! My copy is fairly old, but check with your favorite Usborne representative to grab the newest version. So much vocab can be taken from it and the book elaborates beautifully. This was a great book for teaching kids about chemistry, atoms and molecules. We read a few pages one day and a few pages the next. It is a book we read from multiple times during our chemistry activities for kids unit. I was very happy with how it presented the periodic table, the history of chemistry, and went into detail on each element. It’s a board book!”Ī Kids’ Guide to the Periodic Table – This book is really comprehensive. I was surprised that Let’s Learn About Chemistry really did do a nice job explaining the same concepts to my older kids in a way that would make them think, “This will be easy. I read this as a read aloud to specifically explain these concepts to my first graders. ![]() I know you are thinking, “A board book for 4 th and 7 th grades?!” This was perfect for engaging my first graders and also great for clearly explaining the foundations of chemistry to my fourth grader and seventh grader. Let’s Learn About Chemistry by Stephanie Ryan, PhD – This book inspired my entire chemistry activities for kids unit! I shared about it in a recent Mom Meetup Monday chat (replay on Facebook or IGTV).Ī board book, it takes multiple chemistry concepts and vocabulary terms and explains them simply. I combined books we had, books I ordered for this learning unit, and books I found at the library to round out our learning.Įach book is linked so you can read more about it. Reading to children helps make learning calm, fun, and can often explain big concepts in simple ways. Our chemistry activities for kids incorporated read aloud, hands on learning, free printable worksheets, and some fun hands on experiments. That was my goal when creating this chemistry unit for multiple grades. Switching to curricula that was developed for multiple grade instruction helped. Trying to teach 3 different grade levels, and give each of my kids the one on one that I wanted to give them, was causing me to feel too spread out. ![]() I started teaching more subjects in a whole group format to save time in our homeschool days. Chemistry Activities for Kids in Grades K-7
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