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Explore Together (outdoors): Listening Walk: Animal Sounds
Take children outdoors on a listening walk to listen for animal sounds. Have them focus on the source, volume, and pitch of the sounds.
Explore Together (outdoors): Making Waterways
Take children outdoors again to continue exploring the flow of water, this time to make waterways.
Explore Together (outdoors): Milk Carton Boats
Have children make milk carton boats. Have them collect things outside to use as weights and see how many objects their boats can hold.
Explore Together (outdoors): Outdoor Listening Walk
Pair children, have them track down outside sounds, and help them record their observations.
Explore Together (outdoors): Outdoor Plant Walk
Discuss how to treat outdoor plants with care. Go outside and observe plants in their environment.
Explore Together (outdoors): Plant Environment
Take children outside to explore soil in different areas and to compare tree roots and plants’ roots.
Explore Together (outdoors): Plants on the Ground #1
Collect plant parts that have fallen to the ground. Have children use magnifying lenses to explore plant parts.
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): Seed Scientists
Take children outside to collect seeds. Discuss with children the relationships between seeds, animals, and nature.
Explore Together (outdoors): Shaded Colors
Explore and describe colors with and without sunglasses on.
Explore Together (outdoors): Sound Map
Have children record on a map sounds they hear outside. Talk about the source of each sound.
Explore Together (outdoors): Turns and Pools
Explore the flow of water. Have children collect materials to change the water flow and form pools.
Explore Together (outdoors): Visit Plants
Plan a visit to a fruit and vegetable farm. Allow children to freely explore the plants.
Explore Together (outdoors): Water Rivers
Make water rivers and streams of flowing water in the dirt and on other surfaces outside.
Small Group: Change the Flow
Collect materials outside with children to experiment how to change the direction of water flow.