- recycled food trays and containers
- plastic bottles with caps
- plastic containers with lids (butter, yogurt, etc.)
- plastic plates
- pebbles
- marbles
- cubes
- paper clips
- toothpicks
- craft sticks
- sponge pieces
- bin with water
- marker
- chart paper
- paper towels (for spills)
- absorb
- boat
- float
- sink
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: Review Float and Sink
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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: Cause and Effect, Compare and Contrast, Listening and Speaking, Predicting, Vocabulary
Invite children to talk about and demonstrate new ideas they have learned this week about things that float and sink. Encourage them to share their learning about:
- How they made floating objects sink
- What objects float first and then sink, and why they think so
- Why some objects floated and others sunk
- How they made and tested boats by adding weight
- What objects made their boat sink the fastest
Tell children they are going to continue exploring floating and sinking.