“Round and Round” (PEEP game)
- change
- grow
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2 Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
MA Draft STE Standards:
Life Sciences/From Molecules to Organisms: Inheritance and Variation of Traits/LS1/3.D Recognize stages of the life cycle of plants and animals they have observed and discuss ideas about what happens at each stage. [Patterns, Change]
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
Science and Technology/Life Sciences 10 Observe and identify the characteristics and needs of living things: humans, animals, and plants.
“Round and Round” (PEEP game)
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Skill Focus: active viewing, sequencing
Invite children to play “Round and Round,” a PEEP and the Big Wide World interactive online game about how some living things grow and change over time. Guide them to understand that they are to choose a plant or animal and find out how it changes and grows over time by picking up and moving pictures to put them in the right order. As children play, ask questions such as,
- Which picture shows the baby turtle coming out of the egg?
- What happens after the caterpillar goes into its cocoon?
Adaptation: Since some younger children may not be familiar with natural life cycles, play with them one-on-one or allow older children to help them tell the story of each cycle.
