- marbles
- track materials
- pictures of children's previous track explorations
- down
- move
- steeper
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.1: Demonstrate use of oral language in informal everyday activities.
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.
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: Trackways
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STEM Key Concepts: Understand that a ramp, or inclined plane, is a surface with one end higher than the other
ELA Focus Skills: Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Revisit children’s explorations building trackways. Use pictures taken of the children exploring or drawings made by children to help recall their trackway building explorations.
Ask children to share their observations about how the marbles move down the tracks. Have materials on hand so children can demonstrate their observations. Ask questions such as,
- Aran and Sophia, how did you change your track so the golf ball moved down the entire length of your track?
- Luis and Manuel, what happened to the big marble when you made the track a little steeper?
Tell children they will continue exploring tube tracks today.