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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): Water Drops
Search outdoors for water flowing down or dripping off surfaces. Have children explore dripping water with their hands.
Explore Together (outdoors): Water Rivers
Make water rivers and streams of flowing water in the dirt and on other surfaces outside.
Float and Sink Art
Have children choose some objects to test whether they float or sink. Glue the floating items on one part of a paper plate, and the sinking items on another.
How Much Water?
Have children count how many little cups it takes to fill a bigger cup of water.
Ice Art
Explore art and science with your child. See what happens when she paints a picture with frozen colored ice cubes.
Living Under Water
Help your child learn about animals that live in or around water by looking at pictures and imagining life under water.
Small Group: Bag of Objects
Give each child an object to describe and predict if it will float or sink. Test the items and place them in bins labeled “Float” or “Sink.”
Small Group: Change the Flow
Collect materials outside with children to experiment how to change the direction of water flow.
Small Group: Drops on a Penny
Have children continue to explore how water drops stick together, and how water drops behave on different surfaces.
Small Group: Measure the Flow
Have children measure how far the water flowed with nonstandard measuring tools.
Small Group: No Shape of Its Own
Explore the idea that liquids do not have their own shape, but take on the shape of their containers.
Small Group: Sink the Boat
Have children place pennies on their boats and count how many pennies are on the boats before they sink.
Small Group: Water Drop Races
Have children use eyedroppers to squirt and drip water drops on a smooth, vertical surface and compare how the drops flow.
Water Tools
Leave the water table set up with the water tools throughout the week so children can continue their explorations with the tools.
Wet and Dry Clothes
Children wash doll clothes—some hang wet clothes on the clothesline and others place their doll clothes in plastic bags. Revisit the cloths to see which cloths are still wet and which ones are dry.
Wet and Dry Sand
Make sandcastles with dry sand and wet sand to demonstrate how water sticks to pieces of sand.