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Talk Together: Introduce Sliding
Discuss how size, shape, and weight of an object can affect the way it moves down a ramp. Talk about how things slide and/or roll.
Talk Together: Making Obstacles
Discuss the weight and texture of different materials. Help children think about how they might use them in their obstacle course explorations.
Talk Together: Move Down the Ramp
Ask children to share ramps they discovered on their way home. Have them dictate or write to record ideas on the "All About Ramps" chart.
Talk Together: Obstacles
Discuss obstacles children explored as they rolled objects down their trackways.
Talk Together: Ramp Review
Review children's ramp explorations and observations. Remind children that scientists use skills such as asking questions and recording observations.
Talk Together: Ramps with Different Surfaces
Describe what happens when different objects are rolled down ramps of different textures.
Talk Together: Review Ramps, Slides, and Tracks
Have children talk about ramps, slides, or tracks in their environment. Then act out motions as they recite a rhyme.
Talk Together: Sliding Experiences
Talk with children about their experiences going down slides and other inclined planes. Encourage them to talk about how they felt.
Talk Together: Steep Stories
Talk with children about their experiences with varying the steepness of any ramps. Discuss how things move faster on steeper inclines.
Talk Together: Talk About Explorations
Discuss new ways for children to build their obstacle courses based on their experiences and observations.
Talk Together: Talk about Tracks
Discuss trackways. Show a picture of a real trackway and talk about how tracks help keep things, such as trains, on a straight path.
Talk Together: Trackways
Encourage children to demonstrate and share their observations about how marbles move down the tracks.
Watch Together: “Building Ramps” (PEEP live-action clip)
Watch the video PEEP and the Big Wide World “Building Ramps.” Have children focus on what happens to the balls and obstacles after they collide.
Watch Together: “Roller Coaster” #1 (BTL show)
Watch the video Between the Lions “Roller Coaster” and have children watch for and listen to the different ways the roller coaster moves and sounds.
Watch Together: “Roller Coaster” #2 (BTL show)
Invite children to watch the video Between the Lions “Roller Coaster” again. Encourage them to “read” along, as many words as they can.
Watch Together: “Roller Coaster” #3 (BTL show)
Play the video Between the Lions “Roller Coaster” and have children focus on all the ramps and trackways in the video.
Watch Together: “Rolling Down a Hill” (PEEP live-action clip)
Play the video clip PEEP and the Big Wide World “Rolling Down a Hill” and have children focus on how the different objects roll down a hill.
Watch Together: “The Whatchamacallit” #2 (PEEP show)
Play the video PEEP and the Big Wide World “The Whatchamacallit.” Have children focus on how things roll, slide, or stay put on the slide.
Watch Together: “The Whatchamacallit” (PEEP show) #3
Have children watch PEEP and the Big Wide World “The Whatchamacallit” and compare things Peep and his friends explore with ramps that are similar to their explorations.
Watch Together: “What Do Wheels Do All Day?” (BTL show) #1
Play the video Between the Lions “What Do Wheels Do All Day?” Help children focus on the many ways wheels are used by people.