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Sound: Shake, Rattle, and Roll

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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 maki...

A Sound Walk

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A Sound Walk

This activity takes the children on a sound walk around the school grounds or surrounding neighborhood to listen for different sounds. The children sh...

Vibrations

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Vibrations

This activity explores sound and vibrations using rulers. Children are asked to observe and describe how the ruler moves or “vibrates” as it makes...

Noise Makers

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Noise Makers

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 res...

A Touch Collage

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A Touch Collage

This activity focuses on identifying various materials by touch. The activity encourages children to touch and hold the various materials as they make...

Matching by Touch

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Matching by Touch

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 de...

A Wind Walk

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A Wind Walk

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 loo...

A Windy Day

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A Windy Day

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 expl...

Air That Moves

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Air That Moves

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 fa...

Parachutes

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Parachutes

This activity involves playing with a parachute to make discoveries about air. It is always a favorite activity as most children enjoy hiding under th...

My Shadow

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My Shadow

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...

Shadows on My Playground

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Shadows on My Playground

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 sha...

Where Did the Shadows Go?

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Where Did the Shadows Go?

This activity focuses on discovering that on cloudy days, there may not be enough sunlight to cause shadows. If the clouds are intermittent, the shado...

What Is the Weather Like Today?

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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 t...

Snow Tracks and Traces

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Snow Tracks and Traces

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 child...

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