- cardboard and plastic tubes and hoses
- plastic containers with lids (for example, food storage containers, yogurt containers, plastic eggs)
- small objects to place inside of the containers (for example, dried beans, beads, paper clips, pompoms, cotton balls, buttons, rubber bands, packing peanuts, tissue paper)
- different
- loud
- louder
- medium
- quiet
- same
- shake
- sound
MA Standards:
Mathematics/Measurement and Data/PK.MD.MA.3: Sort, categorize, and classify objects by more than one attribute.
Head Start Outcomes:
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving: Recognizes cause and effect relationships.
MA Draft STE Standards:
Physical Sciences/Matter and Its Interactions/PS1.A: Describe, compare, sort and classify objects based on observable physical characteristics, uses, and whether it is manufactured as part of their classroom play and investigations of the natural and human-made world.
Life Sciences/From Molecules to Organisms/LS1/3.B: Identify the 5 senses as ways animals (including themselves) gather different kinds of information about the world around them. [Structure and Function]
Life Sciences/From Molecules to Organisms/LS1/3.C: Use their sense in their exploration and play to gather information. [Structure and Function]
PreK Guidelines:
Mathematics/Patterns and Relations 8: Sort, categorize, or classify objects by more than one attribute.
Science and Technology/Living Things and Their Environment 15: Use their senses of sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste to explore their environment using sensory vocabulary.
Science and Technology/Physical Sciences 18: Manipulate a wide variety of familiar and unfamiliar objects to observe, describe, and compare their properties using appropriate language.
Loud, Medium, Quiet Sounds
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Skill Focus: Compare and Contrast, Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Have children continue exploring making sounds with their shakers in the Science and Math Center. Have children make loud, medium, and quiet sounds with the shakers. Ask children to make a sound and identify it as a loud, medium, or quiet sound. Have children explain how they made the loud, medium, and quiet sounds, and then have them make the sounds either louder or softer.