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SCIENCE

SCIENCE. Understanding the World Around Us. Polar Bear, Polar Bear. Clap your hands and stomp your feet after each of the Polar Bear’s tricks. Preparation: Bear shaped bottle; yellow, blue, red, food coloring; magic cleaner; water.

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SCIENCE

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  1. SCIENCE Understanding the World Around Us

  2. Polar Bear, Polar Bear • Clap your hands and stomp your feet after each of the Polar Bear’s tricks. • Preparation: Bear shaped bottle; yellow, blue, red, food coloring; magic cleaner; water.

  3. Children have a natural interest about the world around them. Children act as scientists as they question their surroundings.

  4. The SCIENCE AREA • Place it near a window and away from active play • The focus is to allow the child to explore the world around them through hands on, activities, displays, and simple science experiments. • Have a table set up where materials are available for the child to examine with his/her senses. • Include items like: microscopes, magnifying glasses, globe, pictures, plants, leaves, nuts and seeds, rocks, real and plastic animals, insects, seashells, building materials, experiments…. • Introduce New Vocabulary and Skills: Problem Solve, Transformation, Reversal, Classification, Explore,

  5. 1.Suspension Fireworks in a Glass 2.Chemical reaction Volcano 3.Chemical change Shiny Penny – 1/4c white vinegar 1 tsp salt in one glass. Add a dull or darkened penny and let sit. Check periodically. Pour bowl ¼ full of vinegar, place chicken bone in vinegar, cover bowl with lid. Make Butter CHEMISTRY

  6. CREATIONS of MATTER:

  7. Balance Does air have weight? 2 balloons and a ruler. Weight and Size Lift a bottle with a stick Gravity Drop various objects to see how they fall Water: Test Sink or Float Scuba Diver Dancing raisins Magnets Dancing Socks Machines: wheels, gears, lever (nutcracker) Conductor/Insulator ice cubes on a metal baking sheet, ice cubes on a piece of cardboard, which melts faster? Pour salt on ice cube and a string. Electricity Static on hair with balloons. Crayon Melt on a hot plate PHYSICAL

  8. Plants and trees Do leaves breath? Place a leaf in a glass of water and watch as bubbles form on the leaf. matching leaves with the tree. Germination sprout seed in plastic bag Grass Head Guys. Grow grass in a stocking and potting soil. Photosynthesis one plant in sun, one plant in dark. BOTANY

  9. Living and non-living things Animals Care of pets Habitats and Diets Make a home for a bird, study what a bird eats. Living and non-living things seashells, pet fish, watch tad poles develop, hatch chickens. Our 5 senses smelling jars, tasting table, sound cans, touch gel bags. Your Human Body BIOLOGY

  10. Sun make a sundial, sun prints on paper. Light and Dark Shadow tracing outdoors with the sun, indoors with the flashlight. Moon and Stars shapes, chart phases of the moon The water cycle Make a cloud in a jar. Weather tornado in a bottle. Thunder in a brown bag Season changes ASTROLOGY-METEOROGY

  11. Conservation Recycling Erosion Care of the Environment Worms in soil ECOLOGY

  12. BEST LEARNED THROUGH: • Experiences of the senses: • eyes, nose, mouth, ears, and touch • First hand experiences • Simple experiments • Unplanned discoveries • Exciting discussion • Observation • Predictions They are eager to learn about their world

  13. Remember the SCIENTIFIC PROCESS? • Observe: notice, wonder explore. • Ask questions • Create a hypothesis • Predict outcome • Perform experiment • Analyze results • Evaluate hypothesis

  14. CHARACTERISTICS OF A SCIENCE TEACHER: • Facilitator, observer • Expands vocabulary • Makes connections • (books, exploration) • Acknowledges ideas • Follow up • Questions • To encourage children to discover scientific principles, the teacher should use effective questioning. These questions will help the childdiscoverconcepts for him/herself.

  15. Effective Questioning • OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS: • Promotes discussion - requires decision-making skills • ** What are you observing? • How could you group these? • What happens when you ….? • ** What do you think will happen if…. • What can you do to make that happen? • How does it look the same or different than it did yesterday? • ** How did you do that? • I wonder how _______ works? • What can you change to make ______ work/happen out? • When did this happen? What happened afterward? • ** I don’t know either. Let’s see if we can find out • CLOSED-ENDED QUESTIONS: • Single answer or Yes/No answers • What color is it? • What shape is it? • Do you like to look at the fish?

  16. BOOKS AND SONGS • Always include Books and Songs

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