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Explore Together (indoors): Shake and Listen
Have children choose materials and containers to explore making sounds. Challenge children to make loud and soft sounds with the shakers.
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): Tap and Scrape Sounds
Invite children to select from a set of materials to make and describe tap and scrape sounds.
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): 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): 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 (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): 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 Water on Surfaces
Have children explore how water behaves on different surfaces outside.
Explore Together (outdoors): Flowers and Vegetables
Take children outside to explore flowering plants. Have them compare these plants to other plants they observed.
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): Grocery Store Visit
Visit a grocery store or farm stand and explore and compare fruits and vegetables.
Explore Together (outdoors): Hunt for Materials
Review materials used in building houses in the book Houses and Homes. Go outside and look at different materials used in neighborhood buildings.