- bucket with water
- funnels
- pipettes or eyedroppers
- plastic cups
- soda bottles
- sponges
- squirt bottles
- absorb
- pour
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: Make It Move
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STEM Key Concepts: You can use different objects to move water
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Discuss with children how they have made water move in their explorations. Ask children to describe one way they made water move. Then focus children’s attention on the materials. Hold up a bottle and ask children to describe it. Then ask, How do you think you can use the bottle to make water move? Ask a volunteer to demonstrate filling the bottle and pouring it into another container. Say, How did you move the water from the bucket to the bowl?
Then hold up a sponge and ask a volunteer to demonstrate how he or she could use the sponge to move water. Have children think about what happened to the water when they poured it on the dirt earlier. Guide children to use the vocabulary word absorb in their response. Ask, What happens to the water when you pour it on a sponge? So, how do you think you can move the water with a sponge?
Describe other materials that children may not be familiar with (funnel) and invite them to demonstrate moving water. You may want to review the basic water rules at this time.
Things that are okay to do while exploring water:
- Explore water with your hands and various tools
- Observe water with your eyes and ears
Things that are not okay to do while exploring water:
- Drink any water that we are exploring
- Purposely spray, splash, or pour water on any child (or on yourself)