Here are some lessons I would like to share!
In order to go to the lesson plan click on the lesson titles.
In order to go to the lesson plan click on the lesson titles.
In this lesson, children will experiment with magnets, what magnets will attract, and what magnets will not attract. The first activity involves having several stations around the room with various small items. The assortment of items include those that will and those that will not attract magnets. The children will make predictions and then experiment! This gives children a hands-on activity in which they get to direct their learning.
This lesson focuses on bubbles and how bubbles work. The lesson begins by asking questions and then leads into creating your very own bubble solution. Children are able to make their own bubbles and witness how the bubble "skin" stretches.
This lesson focuses on animals and children will create their own mini-farm. This lesson allows students to brainstorm their farm and decide what types of animals are found on a farm. They will also think about what animals need to survive. They can work in small groups to design and build a farm. The students can walk around and look at others' work once the farms are completed. Children get the opportunity to work and then showcase that work. This lesson gets students thinking and using their creativity to show what they know.
This is a fun lesson in which kids get to learn the basic properties of glue. In this chemistry lesson children will make their own glue and then test it to see if they were successful in making their glue. This lesson is beneficial because students get to be scientists and see if their creation works.
In this lesson, children will explore one of their five senses; their sense of touch. Scientists use their senses all the time while making observations. Children get an opportunity to be a scientist using their sense of touch in this fun activity. This activity is an enjoyable way for children to explore this sense and to make observations using this sense. Children will describe what they feel while sticking their hand in a brown bag, feeling something mysterious to them. This can intrigue the children and really get them thinking about what they could be feeling.
Children will explore the concept of absorption. "How can we make the colored water travel from one glass to another, without touching it?" In this lesson for younger children, children will use paper towels to transfer water. The water will travel up the paper towel, which is absorbing the water, and then back down into the other glass. The activity is also introducing basic color mixing. Two different colors are being transferred into a central glass.
In this lesson, students are learning the different parts of plants and what plants need to live. Children will create a flower and a picture. They will use this picture to label the parts of the flower and what it needs to live. This lesson also provides a few books that fit perfectly with the lesson and provide more information on plants.
What motivates children more than yummy cookies? This lesson focuses on the phases of the moon and matching each phase name to the phase appearance. Students will use oreo cookies to create the appearance of each moon phase. The cookie diagram will then be labeled with the phase name. This activity is cute and is a great visual for children. This lesson goes well with The Moon Book by Gail Gibbons. You can find information about his book on my blog.
In this lesson for youngsters, children will predict and experiment which items will float and which will sink. Children will think of ideas of what items to put into the eggs, which will be put into a tub of water. The best part about this lesson is that it can be child-directed. It also gives children the opportunity to make their own discoveries and learn on their own.
Most children love to pretend and engage in dramatic play. For this lesson, children can pretend to be detectives solving a mystery. They will figure out what kind of fingerprints they, or other classmates, have. An interesting way to expand this lesson would be to create some sort of "crime" and use fingerprints to help children solve the mystery. This will keep children engaged and it will give them an opportunity to practice their knowledge on fingerprints.
