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Experiment – Italian Workshop. Luminous Cows Group. Experiment for pre-school - kaleidoscope. Rationale and core concepts : light, reflections, colours. Active learning, constructivism, discovery learning.
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Experiment – Italian Workshop Luminous Cows Group
Experiment for pre-school- kaleidoscope • Rationale and core concepts: light, reflections, colours. Active learning, constructivism, discovery learning. • Description of the activites in the frame of a more general path: to make a kaleidoscope Kaleidoscope • Target group: 4-6 year old
Materials: • Metallic silver cardboard • Rolls of toilet paper • Clean film • Colorful pieces of paper • Circle of foam or plain cardboard • Setting of the class: Smaller groups • Space and time: divide the work into 2 days for ~ 20 min at each period, space: tablesize.
What to do at home • Play with fingerpaint to mix and try different colours
Play with a glassbowl of water, putting objects in it to observe refraction • Play with mirros to understand reflection and angles • Play with light to understand light and shadow (ex. paint a portrait of their own shadow)
Experiment for elementary school • Rationale and core concepts: light, refractions, colours. Active learning, constructivism, discovery learning. • Description of the activites in the frame of a more general path: to discover what happens looking through a cylinder filled with liquid. • Target group: 6-12 year old
Cylinder with fluid • Materials • Colour filters • Tube with fluid inside • Paper with QUALITY CHOICE (or any other symatric and asymatric word) • Experiment • Let chidern discover what causes the effect and think about what really happens. For example different colors or orientation of cylinder.
Suggestions for parents • Writing your name in the mirror. • This will give childern a feeling for the mirror and what happens. • Childern are only allowed to look in the mirror and they can’t see there hands directly.
Suggestions for parents • Mirrortunnel • Childern can look in one mirror directly in front of an other mirror. They will see a tunnel of mirrors.