- 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).
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
Watch Together: “Fish Museum” (PEEP show) #2
STEM Key Concepts: Objects behave differently in water; Some things float; Some things sink; If you add enough weight to a floating object, it will sometimes sink; Solids have physical characteristics that can be observed and described
ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Compare and Contrast, Comprehension (Main Idea), Listening and Speaking, Making Connections, Predicting, Recall and Retell, Story Comprehension, Story Sequence, Vocabulary
Tell children they are going to watch the PEEP and the Big Wide World video “Fish Museum” again.
Before You Watch
Review and discuss what children recall from the first viewing. Ask questions such as,
- What did Fish Jr. want to do? How did Quack help him?
- What happened to some of the things Quack sent down to Fish Jr.?
- How did Quack stop some of the things from floating back up to the surface?
Provide a viewing focus before you watch the video by having children think about why objects float or sink in the Fish Museum.
As You Watch
Help children connect to the story by pausing to talk about the things from "up there" that float or sink. Discuss objects that they experimented with and whether or not they would make good additions to the Fish Museum. Ask questions such as,
- Why was a balloon a good thing to have in the Fish Museum?
- Why do you think Quack could not make the balloon stay down under the water? Did you have any objects that would not stay down at the bottom? Why do you think that is?
- What was similar or different about what happened to Quack’s balloon and what happened to the ping pong ball we pushed down under the water and then let go of?
After You Watch
Ask children what they learned from the video that they would like to try in their next water explorations. Make a list and try some suggestions at another time.
Educator Tip: Watching and discussing the selected PEEP stories and live-action video clips can spark and extend children’s interest and understanding of water. We suggest that children watch the video clips after they have had an opportunity to do their own initial exploration of water. That way your children can compare their experiences and discoveries with those shown on the video clip and think about what additional water explorations they might like to try.
