- “Making Things Float and Sink” (PEEP live-action clip)
- paper
- crayons
- float
- sink
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).
Language/L.PK.MA.4: Ask and answer questions about the meanings of new words and phrases introduced through books, activities, and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
Language Development/Expressive Language: Uses different forms of language.
Literacy Knowledge/Early Writing: Uses scribbles, shapes, pictures, and letters to represent objects, stories, experiences, or ideas.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 5: Listen to and use formal and informal language.
English Language Arts/Composition 16: Use their own words or illustrations to describe their experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information about a topic of interest.
“Making Things Float and Sink” #2 (PEEP live-action clip)
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Skill Focus: Active Viewing and Listening, Vocabulary
Invite children to watch “Making Things Float and Sink” independently. After they view, talk about what the children on the video discovered about floating and sinking. Ask, Did you know that would happen? Did anything surprise you? How did that surprise you?
Have each child draw a picture about the discoveries the children in the video made.
