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Explore Together (indoors): Taste and Compare
Have children compare plant foods by having them taste, smell, feel, and look at fruits and vegetables.
Explore Together (indoors): The Huff and Puff Test
Build straw, stick, and brick houses and try to blow them over. Encourage children to document their observations by drawing, writing, or dictating to you.
Explore Together (indoors): Using Building Materials
Allow children to freely explore the building materials. Invite them to make different structures they have learned about.
Explore Together (indoors): Vary the Obstacles
Children continue to explore ramps and objects that can be obstacles. Have children experiment with using different objects to use as obstacles.
Explore Together (indoors): Vary the Steepness
Have children figure out what they need to do to the steepness of a ramp to make a ball knock over an obstacle.
Explore Together (indoors): Voice Pitch
Children explore the concept of pitch using their voices. Have them say and listen to high and low sounds, and record them on a chart.
Explore Together (indoors): Voice Volume
Have children focus on exploring volume and timbre with their voices, and then create patterns of sounds for others to repeat.
Explore Together (indoors): Walls and Roofs
Have children work in small groups to freely explore materials as they build different parts of a house.
Explore Together (indoors): Water Tools: Introduce Tubing
Have children continue to explore moving water. Add plastic tubing to the set of materials that children can use to move water.
Explore Together: Map Colors
Review how different colors communicate different things to children as they make a neighborhood map.
Explore Together (outdoors): Animal Signs
Take children outside to explore plants and look for evidence that animals have been eating the plants.
Explore Together (outdoors): Building Dams
Take children outdoors again to continue exploring the flow of water, this time to make dams.
Explore Together (outdoors): Building Shapes
Go outdoors and look for shapes in neighborhood houses and buildings. Have children draw shapes they find and dictate or write what part of the building the shape was found.
Explore Together (outdoors): Changing Water Flow
Have children observe how water changes directions and slows down or speeds up as it flows down a hill.
Explore Together (outdoors): Colored Lenses
Have children explore looking at the world through colored transparent plastic sheets.
Explore Together (outdoors): Colored Light
Have children explore what happens to light cast through different transparent objects.
Explore Together (outdoors): Colors Outside
Have children explore colors in the outdoor environment.
Explore Together (outdoors): Disappearing Water
Children paint with ice cubes and trace puddles with chalk to observe the water evaporate.
Explore Together (outdoors): Down the Slide
Bring children outside and have them explore how different objects move when they are sent down the playground slide.
Explore Together (outdoors): Explore Float and Sink
Provide an assortment of objects for children to test whether they will float or sink. Have them record the results on a chart.