Lessons by Material

A Hot Day

Aluminum Foil

Bag

Balloons

Balls

Bar Magnet

Baskets

Beads

Beanbag

Blocks

Book: Oscar and the Bird: A Book about Electricity

Books

Boxes

Cardboard

Cardboard Boxes

Cardboard cores from paper towel rolls

Carpet

Chart Paper

Clay

Clay,  Popsicle sticks, Pictures of 2D and 3D shapes A cube, pentagon, pentagonal prism, prism, pyramid, rectangle, square, triangle

Clear Bucket

Clipboard

Clock

cloth

Clothespins

Coffee Filters

Coins

Counting Bears

Craft Sticks

Crayons

Cups

Dandelion Field

Dice

Dishpan

Dishwashing liquid

Divided condiment tray with six sections and a circle center

Duct Tape

Duplos

Fan

Feathers

Felt

Flat Objects

Floral Gems

Flour

Flowers

Foam

Foam Building Blocks

Foam Cups

Glass

Glue

Glue Sticks

Grasses

Hair

HEXBUGS (or similar simple battery-powered machines that move)

Horseshoe Magnet

Index Cards

Items to Measure

Jump Rope

Laundry Baskets

Leaves

Lego Base Plate

Lego Bricks

Legos

Lettuce

Linking Cubes

Magnatiles

Magnetic Tiles

Marble maze pieces

Marbles

Mardi Gras Necklaces

Markers

Masking Tape

Measuring Spoons

Measuring Tape

Measuring Tools

Measuring with LEGO Bricks chart

Mesh bag

Muffin Tins

Newspaper

Notebook

Oscar and the Bird: A Book about Electricity by Geoff Waring

Outdoor Space

Packing Tubes

Paint

Paper

Paper Bags

Paper Cups

Paper Plates

Parachute

Parent Volunteers

Pebbles

Pencils

Pens

Permanent Markers

Photos of Different Animals

Pipe Cleaners

Pipettes

Plastic Cups

Plastic Easter Egg

Plastic Spoons

Plastic Tub

Playdough

pom poms

Popsicle Sticks

Recycled cans and empty food boxes

Ribbon

Rocks

Rubber bands

Ruler

Salt

Scissors

Scoop

Screws

Seashells

Shape cards

Shipping Tubes

Sleds

Small Toys

Snow-covered slope or hill

Stepping Stones

Sticks

Stopwatch

Straws

String

Sugar

sweater

Table

Tablecloth

Tablespoon

Tape

Teaspoon

The book, Cece Loves Science: Push and Pull, by Kimberly Derting and Shelli R. Johannes 

The book, Everything You Need for a Treehouse, by Carter Higgins

The book, Forces: Physical Science for Kids by Andi Diehn

The book, Fraydo the Dragon: A Very Big Problem!, by Courtney Spain Aragon

The book, If I Built a House, by Chris Van Dusen

The book, Look at That Building: A First Book of Structures, by Scot Ritchie

The book, Mama Built a Little Nest, by Jennifer Ward

The book, Motion: Push and Pull, Fast and Slow by Darlene Stille

The book, Not a Box, by Antoinette Portis Boxes of all sizes Cardboard cores from paper towel rolls and toilet paper rolls, Construction paper, Glue sticks/tape, Markers/crayons

The book, Pull, Lift and Lower: A Book About Pulleys, by Michael Dahl

The book, Room on a Broom, by Julia Donaldson

The book, Scoop, Seesaw, and Raise: A Book About Levers, by Michael Dahl

The book, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, by Paul Galdone

The book, When a Line Bends, a Shape Begins, by Rhonda Growler Greene

The Three Little Pigs by Kidsbook Publishing (or the version of your choice)  

Throw-down bases

Timer

Towel

Towels

Tree

Tree, playground equipment, stairwell

Twigs

Twine

Unit Blocks

Water

Water Table

Weather Chart

Whiteboard

Winter Outdoor Gear

Wire

Wire Hanger

Wood Building Blocks

Yarn