Water & Science
- Östra Göinge kommun Stormhattens förskola
- 10. srp 2017.
- 2 min čitanja
Conversation is an important tool in every activity, listening to each other and showing consideration to each other’s opinions.
Children love water so we experimented with water and explored the differences between cold water and hot water.
We put sugar, baking-powder and cooking-oil in the water and children guessed what they thought would happen. The conversation was an important tool in this activity, listening to each other and showing consideration to each other’s opinions.
Some word from the children: “It melted and looked like flour” “It looked like milk” “The bubble of the cooking-oil was bigger in my glass” “I thought the sugar would sink and it did” “the sugar melted slow in the cold water”
The main purpose was to let the children make their own educational documentation (by taking a photo with the iPad) and to make the children aware of their own learning process. The documentation was, later on when we sat down and spoke about their photos, used to help the children reflect about what they experienced and learned. In the conversation they also compared their thoughts to the other children to get a greater variation of reflections.
Following up on children's interests and enriching the environment is very important in maintaining the level of activity and engaging children from passive observers to active participants.
We continue to work with our theme water. The children have been interested in fish. The children wanted to create an aquarium. They had to create fish in clay and then paint the fish. We used a large transparent ash.Then they put down their fish in the box
We have a big cube that we use for different projects. This time it became a big aquarium. We dressed the cube with plastic bands around three of the sides. Then we put a loop with small lights on the top side to form a sky of stars. The children drew fish as they cut out and we hung them in the cube.
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