- cups
- plastic ramps of different sizes
- water
- move
- obstacle
- ramp
- roll
- slide
MA Standards:
English Language Arts/Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1 Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
MA Draft STE Standards:
Physical Sciences/Motion and Stability; Forces and Interaction/PS2.A Plan and carry out investigations of the behaviors of moving things.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
Approaches to Learning/Cooperation Plans, initiates, and completes learning activities with peers.
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
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/Physical Sciences 21 Explore and describe various actions that can change an object’s motion such as pulling, pushing, twisting, rolling, and throwing.
Science and Technology/Technology and Engineering 23 Explore and describe a wide variety of natural and man-made materials through sensory experiences.
Waterways
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Skill Focus: Fine Motor Skills, Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Help children construct a set of ramps at the Sensory Table to explore how water travels along slanted inclines. Have children construct and connect the ramps. Have them pour cups of water down the ramps. Invite them to place different obstacles along the “waterways.” Ask children to notice what happens when the water hits the obstacles. How does the water move around the obstacle? How would children describe how the water moves? Does it slide or roll? Ask children questions to help them make comparisons between the water and the balls they’ve used to roll and slide down ramps.