www.tennessee.gov/education/ci/sci/2009_10/grade_k.pdf

This site gives a link to inquiry for kindergarten

Conceptual Strand,
Understandings about scientific inquiry and the ability to conduct inquiry are essential for living in the 21st century.
Guiding Question
What tools, skills, knowledge, and dispositions are needed to conduct scientific inquiry?

Grade Level Expectations
Checks for Understanding

In kindgergarten the students are learning measurement using inches and centimeters through cubes. They also have an unit in Science on animals. I would like to do a lesson on scale using animals and have them think about animals in comparison to others. I would start with asking them to name different animals and then put them in order from smallest to largest. Next I would have them make an observation about how many inches and centimeters each animal is. I would then  using life size shapes of some of the animals they name,  measure each animal using the centimeter cubes and large rulers. The students could compare themselves and me to the animals. They also can draw pictures of the new order, they can also measure other living objects.

Brielle Stark, 2009