Getting Started
This week, children will build their own ramps and investigate how objects move down a ramp, or inclined plane. Children will:
- Understand that the shape of an object affects whether it will roll or slide or stay put
- Observe how different inclines affect how far an object rolls
- Observe how some objects roll faster and farther than others
- Observe that objects move in different ways when placed on ramps of different steepness, when they leave the ramps, and when they hit other objects
- Understand that objects that slide are more likely to move on steeper inclines and that both rolling and sliding objects move faster down steeper inclines
- Find out how ramps help people every day as they review facts about everyday uses of ramps in the nonfiction text book Roll, Slope, Slide: A Book About Ramps by Michael Dahl
- Revisit Roller Coaster by Maria Frazee, a story about a girl’s first ride on a roller coaster, and watch the Between the Lions video based on the book
- Develop social and emotional abilities by working and playing in large and small groups
- Be introduced to the letter “Uu,” the beginning sound /u/, and the word up