SCIENCE

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SCIENCE

• Understanding the
• World Around Us

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Polar Bear, Polar Bear

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

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

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CHEMISTRY

• 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

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CREATIONS of MATTER
GAK ½ C Elmers Glue 1 C water Food Coloring 1 Tbsp Borax Pour glue and ½ c water in bowl and mix with a spoon. Add food coloring. In another bowl, put ½ c water and all of borax. Mix. Pour both bowls together and mix. When it becomes thick, mix with hands. Store in ziploc bag.
Silly Putty In a zip loc bag, place 1 tablespoon Elmer's glue, 1 tablespoon water and 2 drops of food coloring Mix well. In a container mix 1/2 cup water and 1 tablespoon Borax. After the glue, water, and food coloring have been mixed, add 1 tablespoon of the borax mixture. Close Ziploc and mix well. The result is a very, very close resemblance to the silly putty.
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PHYSICAL

• 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

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BOTANY

• 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.

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BIOLOGY

• 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

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ASTROLOGY-METEOROGY

• 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

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ECOLOGY

• Conservation
• Recycling
• Erosion
• Care of the Environment
• Worms in soil

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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
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Remember the SCIENTIFIC PROCESS?

• Observe notice, wonder explore.
• Ask questions
• Create a hypothesis
• Predict outcome
• Perform experiment
• Analyze results
• Evaluate hypothesis

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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 child
  discover concepts for him/herself.

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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 dont know either. Lets see if we can find
  out
• CLOSED-ENDED QUESTIONS
• Single answer or Yes/No answers
• What color is it?
• What shape is it?

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BOOKS AND SONGS

• Always include Books and Songs