- chart paper
- clear plastic tubing
- marker
- tools
- tube
- water
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: New Water Tools
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STEM Key Concepts: You can use different objects to move water
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Show children the clear plastic tubing. Tell them that they will be able to use the tubing today with their other water tools to move water. Ask them to think about what might happen as water is poured through the tube: Will it go fast or slow? Will there be a sound? Have children compare the tubing to other tools they’ve used. How is it like the funnel? How is different from a cup? Encourage children to think of how they will get water into the tube and how they might use the tubing with the other tools to move water. Record their ideas on chart paper.