This is a really fun preschool and Kindergarten Learning Activity!  It’s a fun science experiment for kids and teaches about measuring, observations and making a hypothesis.

Supplies:

• 1-2 cups flour
• Pan with 1 or 2 inch sides
• 3 size balls
• Tape Measure
• Newspaper or try this experiment outside
• Notebook
• Pen or pencil for marking your observations and measurements in notebook

Steps:

1. Measure 2 cups of flour and put in a hill on the corner of pan
2. smooth out to cover the other parts of the pan.
3. Explain to your children that you are going to drop the balls from different heights, and record information about each time you drop it.  Ask them to form a hypothesis about what might happen with different size balls and when they are dropped from different heights.
4. Measure up 10 inches, drop first ball from that height, measure how wide the hole was and if it rolled, hopped etc.
5. Mark down if this was the largest, smallest or middle size ball.
6. Repeat at that height with the other 2 balls, smoothing flour after each one. Make sure to record the measurements and your observations.
7. Pick two different heights, and record the same information as above.
8. Talk about what you observed and if your hypothesis was correct.

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