- containers
- cups
- pipettes or eyedroppers
- sponges
- squirt bottles
- turkey basters
- water pumps
- wide-mouth bottle
- move
- tools
- 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: Using Tools to Move Water
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STEM Key Concepts: You can use different objects to move water
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Display the water tools for children. Tell children that today they will try to transfer, or move, water from one container to another. Open a free discussion with them about what tools they might combine to transfer water. Guide them to reflect on the special features of each of the tools, including the openings, and how they carry, absorb, and/or release water. Encourage children to use vocabulary such as squirt, pump, carry, and absorb as they think of ways to use the tools.