- chart paper
- clear plastic container
- marker
- pitcher of water
- white construction paper
- flow
- pour
- settle
- shape
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Language/L.PK.MA.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language: Uses language to express ideas and needs.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Talk Together: Introduce Water
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STEM Key Concepts: Water takes the shape of its container; You can use different objects to move water
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Tell children that today they will be exploring water together. Ask children to describe the ways they use water at home or in school. Then ask children to:
- Tell you something they know about water (wet, flows, etc.)
- Name someplace where you can find water (pool, river, etc.)
- Name something you can do with water (splash, swim in, etc.)
Write children’s responses on chart paper with the title “What We Know About Water.” Track the print as you read back the title. Then, hold up a clear pitcher of water and ask,
- What do you think will happen if I tip this pitcher of water over the plastic container?
- How do you think the shape of the water will change?
Pour the water as you describe how it flows out of the pitcher and into the container. Encourage children to closely observe and describe their observations of water as it flows and as it settles in the container. Ask,
- How did its shape change from the pitcher to the container?