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I am currently a pre-service teacher, and right now I am placed in a first-grade classroom for my field experience hours. I will be teaching a science lesson soon, and I know that scientific principles and ideas stuck much better in my mind as a student when I had a concrete example, and I feel that an experiment is one of the best ways to accomplish this. I was curious as to whether there were any tried and true experiments that could be conducted by kids with little to no background in science (or if I should even consider an experiment with such a young age group)?

Hi, you can teach students the parts of flower and have them plant a lima bean seed. At the school where I conduct my field service hours, my teacher is doing the same with her kindergarten class. Today they learned the names of the parts of a flower such as the roots, leaves, stem and the flower and tomorrow they will be planting the seed. I think it is possible to do this with first graders as well, it will be more memorable for them and they will actually learn something.  

That is a really great idea! I am a second year Kindergarten teacher and I am always looking for ways to show visuals and do hands on science activities with my students. I may do this in the spring time!