- blocks
- cardboard boxes
- clay
- drinking straws
- nonfiction books about houses and construction
- toothpicks
- writing and drawing materials
- build
- materials
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.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.C Explore the strength and stability of buildings as they build structures with different materials. [Cause and Effect, Stability and Change]
Head Start Outcomes:
Logic and Reasoning/Reasoning and Problem Solving Classifies, compares, and contrasts objects, events, and experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
Science and Technology/Technology and Engineering 23 Explore and describe a wide variety of natural and man-made materials through sensory experiences.
English Language Arts/Language 2 Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Will It Fall Down?
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Skill Focus: Hand-Eye Coordination, Spatial Relationships, Vocabulary
Invite children to create structures out of different materials, such as drinking straws, toothpicks, paper, building blocks, and clay. Ask, What do you think will happen if you “huff and puff” and try to blow this house down?
Have children predict and record which houses they think will fall down before they “huff and puff.” Encourage them to discuss the results with other children.