MAKE CYCLONES
Use round plastic water bottle (no
curves in bottle).
Fill 2/3 full with water. Drop few drops dish soap, blue food coloring
, and glitter. Replace top and scure with tape.
Child swirls bottle to make a cyclone inside.
TEACHING
ABOUT GASES
Take
a latex glove ( I buy a box of 50 at Smart and Final) pour baking soda
into the thumb. You can make a lot of these ahead of time. Holding
the thumb to prevent the child pouring liquid into it have the child
pour vinegar into the fingers. Knot the top of the glove. The child
shakes it to mix the baking soda and vinegar. The carbon dioxide released
will blow up the glove like a balloon. The child can draw a face on
the glove with markers.
Do this when teaching states of matter (gas). You could also use it if you teach
about acids and bases.
PLANT SUNFLOWERS
Have
children sponge paint the
outside of a styrofoam cup. After it dries, fill it with
potting soiland plant sunflower seeds. If you have room in your classroom,
grow them at school.
As a group activity, show what happens if you don't water,
what happens if you don't have light. Place several plants
away from the light and watch how plants reach for the light.
BUBBLES
Mix one gallon of water with one cup liquid detergent
and 50 drops of glycerine.
Blow bubbles and have the children pop them.
GOOP
Mix 2 cups water with a little food coloring, add 6 cups of cornflour/cornstarch
to make goop. A great outdoor summer activity.
RAMP IT!
Provide the children with an inclined plane. (Can be made with a propped
up board.) Have each child pick an item from the class room and sit
down, before you explain what you are going to do. Show the children
a few basic items, like a car with wheels, a marble and a book. Ask
the children if the item will roll down or slide down the ramp, or
if it will not move. Then try it with each item. Have each child guess
what the item that they picked out will do.
PAINTING WITH WATER
You just need a paint brush, and water in a bucket, oh yeah,
and a nice warm summer day. Let your child "paint" with the water,
and watch how the water evaporates in the warm sun. Paint rocks, trees,
the sidewalk anything!!!
BALANCE PLAY
Part of science is weighing items. Provide your children with a scale
or balance for them to experiment with, and plenty of various items.
This can usually be tied in with your theme. If you are doing winter,
let them weigh snow vs water. Which weighs more? If you are doing valentines
day have them weigh heart shaped beads.
MEASURE IT
Another part of science is measuring. Provide the chidlren with plenty
of opportunities to measure things. Provide measuring cups in your
sand and water table, and containers of various sizes.
SALT ART
Saturate hot water with salt. Let the water cool, and have the
child use the salt water to paint on black paper. Then after
it dries, have the child look at the crystals of salt on the paper.
PLANTS WE EAT
Show the children some common plants we eat. Name the different
parts of the plants, while you show the plants to the children. Help
the children sort the plants. By types of fruit, and veggies. Sort
again by the part of the plant we feats, like we eat the roots of carrots
and potatoes, and we eat the leaves of lettuce, and spinach.
FLOAT OR SINK
Have serval different items on a tray, and a dish pan of water. Ask
the children if they think an item will sink or float. Try it!
OCEAN BOTTLE
Clean out an empty plastic pop bottle. Add water, blue food coloring,
and glitter, and maybe a few pebbles. Seal the bottle closed using
a little hot glue, allow to completely dry before the children can
play with it. Tip the bottle back and forth. roll the bottle on the
floor.
SENSORY FISH
You need:
Blue Hair Gel
Ziplock Bag small
Plastic fish
Glitter
Place the fish, glitter and gel into the baggie. Seal the bag, and then tape
it shut. Let the children feel and play with the bag at a table. Observe closely
so the bag is not punctured.
MAKE A TELEPHONE
Poke a hole in the bottom of two strofoam cups. Place
a piece of string in the bottom of one cup and tie a knot at the end
of the string to prevent the string from coming completely out of the
bottom of the cup. Then thread the string through the bottom of the
other cup and tie another knot. The } is a cup on it's side and the
---- represents the string. It should look like this: }-----{ Have
one child talk in one cup while another listens with the other cup.
How long can the string be before the phone won't work?
SUN PRINTS
Spully the child with a dark piece of paper. In the morning, on a very
sunny day, with little or no wind, havethe children find items to place
on their paper. Every child should recieve one rock, to keep the paper
from blowing away. Have the children arange sticks, grass, acorns and
such on the paper. At the end of the day see how the sun made a picture
for them.
ABSORPTION
Supply the children with pieces of material to test like pieces of
cotton, plastic, wool, tin foil, etc. Supply the children with eye
droppers and a cup of water. Which materials absorb water and which
do not?
STAR VIEWER
Wrap a black piece of paper on the end of a paper towel tube. Seal
it with tape. Poke pin hole in the paper, then look into the tube at
a bright light, to see the stars.
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