Transcript Science and Sensory

SCIENCE
Understanding the
World Around Us
Polar Bear, Polar Bear
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Clap your hands and stomp your feet
after each of the Polar Bear’s tricks.
Preparation: Bear shaped bottle;
yellow, blue, red, food coloring; magic
cleaner; water.
Children have a natural interest about
the world around them and
Children act as scientists as they
question their surroundings.
Science is BEST LEARNED
THROUGH:
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Experiences of the senses:
– eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and touch
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First hand experiences
Simple experiments
Unplanned discoveries
Observations
Predictions
Exciting discussions
– Effective questioning
transformation
Effective Questioning
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CLOSED-ENDED QUESTIONS:
– Single answer or Yes/No answers
• What color is it?
• What shape is it?
• Do you like to look at the fish?
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OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS:
– Promotes discussion - requires decision-making skills
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** What are you observing?
How could you group these?
What happens when you ….?
** What do you think will happen if….
What can you do to make that happen?
How does it look the same or different than it did yesterday?
** How did you do that?
I wonder how _______ works?
What can you change to make ______ work/happen out?
When did this happen? What happened afterward?
** I don’t know either. Let’s see if we can find out
THE SCIENTIFIC PROCESS?
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Observe: notice, wonder explore.
 Ask questions
 Create a hypothesis
 Predict outcome
 Perform experiment
 Analyze results
 Evaluate hypothesis
The SCIENCE AREA
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Allow the child to explore the world around them
through hands on, activities, displays, and simple
science experiments.
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Place it near a window and away from active play
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Have a table set up where a variety of materials are
available for the child to examine with his/her senses.
real and
plastic
animals
magnifying
glasses
Sorting
containers
Balance
scale
Building
materials
Microscopes globe
Pictures
Plants
Leaves
Seeds
insects
Seashells
water
Rocks
Sensory Table
-Provide children opportunities to explore
using their senses.
-Sensory tables should be located near a
sink for quick clean up.
-Contain water wheels, funnels, plastic
beakers, cups etc.
GAK
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1/8c (2Tbl) Glue
1/8 c (2Tbl) –Liquid Starch
– a little less than this amount so it is not gooey.
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1 drop food coloring
Combine in a bag and mix until all
absorbed.
CHEMISTRY
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Suspension:
Chemical reaction:
Chemical change:
CHEMISTRY
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1. Suspension
– **Fireworks in a Glass
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2. Chemical reaction
– **Volcano
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3. Chemical change
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Shiny Penny
Dinosaur Egg:
Ice cube and salt
Oobleck Video
FLUBBER / Real Silly Putty
In a zip lock bag, place 1 tablespoon
Elmer's glue, 1 tablespoon water and 2
drops of food coloring Mix well. In a
container mix 1/2 cup water and 1
tablespoon Borax. After the glue, water
and food coloring have been mixed, add
1 tablespoon of the borax mixture. Close
Ziploc and mix well. The result is a very,
very close resemblance to the real silly
putty.
PHYSICAL
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Balance
Weight and Size
Movements
Gravity
Water: Sink or Float
Magnets
Machines: wheels,
gears, lever, etc.
PHYSICAL
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Conductor/Insulator
– Ice cubes on a metal baking sheet vs. ice cubes on a piece of cardboard, which
melts faster?
– **Electricity Static on hair with balloons.
– Crayon Melt on a hot plate
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Balance
– **Does air have weight? 2 balloons and a ruler.
– **Dominoes falling in a chain reaction
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Weight and Size
– **Lift a bottle with a stick
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Gravity
– Drop various objects to see how they fall
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Water:
– Test Sink or Float
– **Scuba Diver or
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**Dancing raisins
Magnets
– **Dancing Socks
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Machines:
– wheels, gears, lever (nutcracker)
BIOLOGY
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Living and non-living things
Animals
Habitats and Diets
BIOLOGY
Studying Living and non-living things
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Animals
– Care of pets
– Habitats and Diets
– Seashells, pet fish, watch tad poles develop, hatch
chickens.
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Your Human Body
– Our 5 senses
• **Smelling jars, tasting table, sound cans, touch gel
bags, hearing.
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Germs and Bacteria
– **Germy Hands (2 volunteers for this)
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Non-living things
– Does it breath? Does it move on its own?
BOTANY
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Plants
Germination
Photosynthesis
Purpose of plants:
food, building,
clothing, etc.
BOTANY
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Plants and trees
– **Do leaves breath? Place a leaf in a glass of
water and watch as bubbles form on the leaf.
– Matching leaves with the tree.
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Germination
– Sprout seed in plastic bag
– Grass Head Guys. Grow grass in a stocking and
potting soil.
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Photosynthesis
– **Carnation /Celery in colored water
– Place one plant in sun, one plant in dark.
ASTROLOGYMETEOROLOGY
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Sun
Light and Dark:
Shadows
Stars
Weather
ASTROLOGYMETEOROGY
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Sun, Moon and Stars
– Make a sundial, sun prints on paper.
– Shapes, chart phases of the moon
Light and Dark
– Shadow tracing
– Outdoors with the sun, indoors with the
flashlight.
The water cycle
– Make a cloud in a jar.
Weather
– Tornado in a bottle.
– **Thunder in a brown bag
Season changes
ECOLOGY
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Conservation
Recycling
Erosion
Care of the
Environment
– Worms in soil
Science Activities
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List preschool DAP
science activity for
each type of
science. Use
resource books if
needed.