- chart paper
- marker
- flow
- puddle
- river
MA Standards:
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).
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
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.
English Language Arts/Language 3: Communicate personal experiences or interests.
Watch Together: “Making Rivers” #1 (PEEP live-action clip)
STEM Key Concepts: Water flows downhill; Different objects can be used to move water and change its direction; Water behaves differently on different surfaces: it gets absorbed on some surfaces and not on others and it gets absorbed differently on different surfaces
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Tell children they are going to watch a live-action clip about a girl who makes water rivers. Set a viewing focus by asking children to notice how the girl made the water flow out of the pool and to compare that to how they made the water flow out of their dirt puddles.
Play the video PEEP and the Big Wide World “Making Rivers” for children. After viewing, ask,
- What was similar about how the girl made the river flow out of the pool and how you made rivers flow out of your dirt puddle?
- Is there anything you saw in the video that you would like to try the next time we explore water outdoors? Record children’s responses.
Educator Tip: Watching and discussing the selected PEEP stories and live-action video clips can spark and extend children’s interest and understanding of water. We suggest that children watch the video clips after they have had an opportunity to do their own initial exploration of water. That way your children can compare their experiences and discoveries with those shown on the video clip and think about what additional water explorations they might like to try.
