- chart paper
- completed graphs and charts from Week 1
- marker
- flow
- path
- water
- waterway
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: Waterways
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STEM Key Concepts: Water flows downhill; Water can flow quickly or slowly
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Tell children that they will go outdoors to make waterways in the dirt and sand. Tell them that you want them to work together to plan their waterways. First, review with children what a waterway is. Talk about the waterways that they have already made when they dug paths for water to flow. Ask, What happens to the water when we dig a path for it to flow? Review with children their graphs from Week 1 that shows how far they made water flow. Say, Why did the water flow so far? What have we learned blocks, or stops, the flow of water? Talk with children about how they might build a waterway full of channels and obstacles. Ask, What would you like your waterway to look like? How would you like the water to move through it? What will you do to make the water move that way? Record their ideas on chart paper.