- chart paper
- marker
- sink with a faucet
- drip
- drop
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: Drip Drop
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STEM Key Concepts: Water can flow quickly or slowly; Water in small amounts forms drops; Water drops stick together; Water behaves differently on different surfaces
ELA Focus Skills: Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Gather children around a faucet. Ask children to describe what they learned about water as they watched it drip from the faucet. Guide children to talk about how they watched a drop form as it dripped from the faucet. Ask them to describe how the drop formed. Then ask, How does water flow? Prompt them to talk about how water sticks to itself. Say, When water flows more slowly, it begins to drip, and drops are formed. How does that show that water sticks to itself?
Then tell them that they will continue to explore how water sticks to itself (and other things) today.