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Alejandra as a pre-service teacher I am also learning what are effective ways to teach science to young learners. I recommend that you include the 5 Es into your science lesson: Engage, Explore, Explain, Elaborate and Evaluate. Using each of them in your science lesson will ensure that you engage your young learners in the science lesson. 

This is a great question and I am wondering the same thing as I am also a pre-service teacher. I have read from a few other discussions that using plants and nature is a great way to implement science into student learning. I really like the idea of explaining how certain plants grow, such as flowers and fruits! I think this would be very fun for the kids too, as they can see how their favorite fruits/vegetables to eat and/or favorite plants have a life cycle of their own. I hope you found this helpful, it helped me visualize how I can introduce science in a fun and engaging way to my future students!

Hello, I agree with the previous post, using the 5's is a great way to have structured science lessons. I believe that as long as you have a well organize, prepared, and clearly state expectation you can effectively teach any lesson. Some activities that I do in my kindergarten class include, density activities that have to do with sink or float, plant activities such as part of plants by exloring actual plants and their parts, how plants grow by planting seeds in soil and exposing some to the sun and other with no sun exposure then recording observations, animal activities such as how do animals adapt in the winter having students explore textures. There are many simple and easy ways to teach science to young learners. 

Science is fun!

Hello!

I believe the most important thing to remember and to incorporate into your science lessons are hands on activities. Students have to be engaged and working with science materials while experimenting in order to really understand the content you are trying to teach them. Below are a couple science lessons I have completed in the past. 

I have completed multiple science lessons throughout my student teaching career. One topic that my second grade students have absolutely loved is Chemical vs Physical Changes. In order to help teach this concept, we read about physical changes then we placed food coloring into water and watched the food coloring physically change the water. After this we read about chemical changes and completed the experiment of placing Mentos into diet coke. My students absolutely loved this activity and they really understood the content because of the experiments. 

Another lesson that my third grade students loved was creating 'dirt' pudding in order to learn the different layers of soil. For this activity we read and talked about the four main layers of soil and added each 'layer' to our pudding cup. The students could at last eat their cup after they individually told me each layer of soil in the correct order. 

Hopefully this is helpful! Good luck!