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Sound: Shake, Rattle, and Roll
This activity focuses on exploring, comparing, and identifying sounds. Ask children to close their eyes and focus on their sense of hearing while making different sounds and letting them guess the sound. Then give a set of clear sound containers to ...
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This activity takes the children on a sound walk around the school grounds or surrounding neighborhood to listen for different sounds. The children should walk without talking until they hear some sounds. Once back inside ask them to draw a picture o...
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This activity explores sound and vibrations using rulers. Children are asked to observe and describe how the ruler moves or “vibrates” as it makes sound. After noticing that different sounds are possible, children will change the position of thei...
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This activity is about reusing materials to make sounds. In the activity, children use their used cups and paper towels to make a noise maker that results in a very realistic duck sound! Children will want to continue this activity all day long. Inst...
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This activity focuses on identifying various materials by touch. The activity encourages children to touch and hold the various materials as they make a collage. When collages are finished, put them on tables and have children feel each collage and t...
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This activity uses the sense of touch to match objects. In the activity, each group of students is given a matching set of materials to observe and describe. After initial discussions, children are asked to consider how the objects feel and one set ...
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This activity is for observing that wind can make objects move. In the activity, children take a walk around the school grounds on a breezy day to look for things that are moving. Children are asked to describe the things they saw once back inside. ...
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This activity is for discovering what makes streamers move. On a breezy day, give each child a small stick with a streamer attached. Let children explore with their streamers and challenge them to walk in different directions and to hold the streamer...
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This activity is for testing how different speeds of wind make objects move. In the activity, students hold their streamers in front of an electric fan. By changing the speed of the fan, have the students describe and compare their streamers. A mater...
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This activity involves playing with a parachute to make discoveries about air. It is always a favorite activity as most children enjoy hiding under the parachute but limit the number who can hide at the same time. After they play with the parachute, ...
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This activity is for observing shadows and how they change. Take children outside on a sunny day and ask them to look at the ground next to where they are standing to see what they can see. As soon as someone notices his or her shadow, introduce the ...
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This activity is for observing that different objects make shadows of different shapes and sizes. Ask students to find the object that is making a shadow and to describe and compare the object with its shadow. When checking the same shadow an hour la...
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This activity focuses on discovering that on cloudy days, there may not be enough sunlight to cause shadows. If the clouds are intermittent, the shadows may come and go, but on an overcast day there may be no shadows at all. Encourage children to con...
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What Is the Weather Like Today?
This activity focuses on observing and naming different kinds of weather. In the activity, children go outside to determine the weather. Back inside the classroom, their findings are recorded on a weather chart. The typical weather chart has only one...
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The focus of this activity is on helping children begin to see that tracks and traces can tell stories about things that have not been seen. Let children describe the different tracks they made in the snow, encouraging them to discuss how each of the...