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Connecting Cube Train Races
Have children build connecting-cube trains to send down ramps, and use nonstandard measuring tools to mark how far the trains travel.
Explore Together (indoors): Build Ramps
Continue to explore ramp materials, build ramps, and move objects down the ramps. Children discuss and compare how objects move.
Explore Together (indoors): Build Steeper Ramps
Have children build and freely explore sending objects down ramps of different steepness.
Explore Together (indoors): Build Trackways
Have children work in pairs to build a trackway and observe how a marble moves down the track.
Explore Together (indoors): Building Tube Tracks
Have children build tube tracks and explore changing the tracks to make their ball move in different directions.
Explore Together (indoors): Indoor Ramp Rolling
Allow children to freely explore ramps materials and building ramps. Encourage them to record their observations.
Explore Together (indoors): Move Along
Discuss how things with and without wheels move down ramps. Have children work in groups to construct ramps.
Explore Together (indoors): Rolling Around
Challenge children to build a tube trackway and send a marble down the entire length of the trackway. Encourage children to draw or write to record their observations.
Explore Together (indoors): Rolling on Different Surfaces
Explore how different floor surfaces affect how far a ball travels after leaving a ramp. Divide the group onto different surfaces to see on which the ball will go farthest.
Explore Together (indoors): Steeper and Steeper
Have children explore how the steepness of a ramp will affect how far a ball travels. Use two ramps with one being steeper than the other.
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 (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): Free Exploration
Take children outdoors to build obstacle courses and explore how objects react when they hit an obstacle.
Explore Together (outdoors): Free Ramp Exploration
Have children continue to explore ramps and how objects move down a ramp. Encourage children predict how an object will behave on a ramp.
Explore Together (outdoors): Hunt for Slides, Ramps, and Tracks
Have children explore ramps, slides, and trackways outdoors and record their observations. Ask children to reflect and share their observations.
Explore Together (outdoors): Ramps All Around
Have children explore ramps in their outdoor environment. Encourage them to draw to record their observations.
Explore Together (outdoors): Ramps with Different Surfaces
Take children outside to compare how objects with varying textures move on ramps with different surfaces.
Explore Together (outdoors): Roll, Slide, or Stay Put?
Take children outside to the playground slide or a preassembled ramp to explore objects that roll, slide, or stay put on the ramp.
Explore Together (outdoors): Steeper and Steeper Outside
Have children continue to observe rolling objects down ramps as they adjust the steepness of the incline.