- books that feature roads and tunnels (optional)
- building blocks
- toy cars
- tubes of various materials (smooth metal, paper, cardboard, etc.)
- hear
- listen
- tube
- tunnel
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Language/L.PK.MA.6 Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
MA Draft STE Standards:
Physical Sciences/Matter and Its Interactions/PS4.A Investigate different sounds made by different objects and different materials and reason about what is making the sounds. [Cause and Effect]
Head Start Outcomes:
Logic and Reasoning/Symbolic Representation Represents people, places, or things through drawings, movement, and three-dimensional objects.
Science Knowledge/Scientific Skills and Method Uses senses and tools, including technology, to gather information, investigate materials, and observe processes and relationships.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
Science and Technology/Inquiry Skills 1 Ask and seek out answers to questions about objects and events with the assistance of interested adults.
Road Tunnels
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Skill Focus: Hand-Eye Coordination, Vocabulary
Invite children to build a roads-and-tunnels structure. Explain that some roads go through tunnels so that the roads can go under water. Ask children to recall any times they’ve driven through tunnels and what it sounded like. You might want to gather books about roads to look at pictures of roads and tunnels. Suggest that children make their own roads with tunnels connecting them. Give them toy cars to play with. Say, What do you think it will sound like when the car goes through the tunnel? Do you think the sounds will be the same in the plastic and cardboard tunnels? Why do you think so?