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This activity is about looking through empty cups and water-filled cups to see how things appear. Give each child an empty cup and one half-filled with water. Ask them to look through their cups at each other and at objects around the room. Have chil...
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This activity is about discovering that water evaporates. On a sunny day, give children buckets of water and wide paintbrushes for painting the outside tables and benches. Have them to also paint something that’s in the shade. Encourage them to not...
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This activity is for finding out which items absorb water and which do not. Give each child a variety of items to experiment with to see what happens when they put some water on them. Use the word absorb when discussing with the children what they fo...
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This activity is for finding out what happens when various foods are placed in colored water. Have a variety of vegetables available and let each child select one to put in water to see what happens. After a few hours or longer of soaking, let the ch...
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This activity is for discovering what happens when different materials are mixed with water. Give children five cups, each filled halfway with water. Show them the materials you have—sand, salt, sugar, flour, pepper—and explain that they are goin...
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This activity is for finding out how drops of different liquids behave. Give the children each a piece of waxed paper and ask them to try dropping a small amount of water onto their paper in order to make drops. Ask children to describe what they fou...
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This activity is for finding out what happens when materials stay in water for a long time. Give children an egg carton and let them put water in each compartment. Then choose different items for each compartment and predict which items will change. ...
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This activity is for making and testing different bubble makers. Put out materials listed and ask children how they could use the materials to create a bubble maker. Children love making bubbles! They will test all the materials you make available. E...
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This activity is for making things with sand and water. At a sand table or in a sandbox, let the children begin by exploring dry sand and then add water to the sand. Wet sand allows children to try out many more ideas than dry sand does. Encourage th...
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This activity is for mixing two primary colors to create a secondary color. When introducing mixing of colors, always start with the primary colors and choose only two. Point out the different shades that children are producing as they use more of on...
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This activity is for dipping paper towels and other materials in colored water to make designs and test absorption properties. Give children paper towels and encourage them to fold any way they want, and then to dip corners or sections into the diffe...
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This activity is for dropping water on a semi-absorbent surface to see what happens. Children can work in pairs with one dropping colored water from an eyedropper into a box, and the other one tilting the box to see what happens to the water. When ...
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This activity involves mixing water with cornstarch and exploring the result. Have children measure two cups of cornstarch and one cup of water into their bowls. Then have them compare oobleck, water, and cornstarch and describe how each feels and lo...
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This activity involves observing properties of a new material. Away from children, make a batch of snappy with recipe provided and put on table for them to use. Children will work with the snappy for a long time—pushing, pulling, rolling, and stre...
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This activity involves looking for seeds in fruit. Put out fruit for children to see and give them an opportunity to touch and smell each of them. Then cut the fruit and give each one. When one of them uses the word seeds, repeat the word and encoura...