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Taking Water to a New Level in Pre-Kindergarten

Taking Water to a New Level in Pre-Kindergarten . Gail Laubenthal Barbara Wilson. CAST Conference November, 2010. Investigating what four year olds know and can do in science.

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Taking Water to a New Level in Pre-Kindergarten

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  1. Taking Water to a New Level in Pre-Kindergarten Gail Laubenthal Barbara Wilson CAST Conference November, 2010

  2. Investigating what four year olds know and can do in science The research study— Building Base Line Objectives for Children’s Knowledge & Skills for Science (BLOCKS): What young children should know and be able to do when they enterkindergarten—is designed to begin the dialog and to contribute a significant amount of data toward understanding where K-2 science teaching and learning should begin.

  3. Physical Properties of Water • Water flows down, unless acted upon. • Water take the shape of its container. • Water sticks to itself (cohesion). • Water sticks to other materials (adhesion). • Air makes bubbles in water and rises to the surface.

  4. Room Set-up

  5. Sharing Prior Experiences • Share one of your own experiences. • Where do you play with water? • What do you do? • What do you play with? • Help the children make connections.

  6. Establish Rules and Routines • Smocks • Spills • Clean up • Appropriate use of materials • Water

  7. Exploring Water

  8. Transition from Open Exploration to Focused Exploration • Observe the children. • Listen to what they are saying. • Is their play more focused? • Do some choose the water center daily? • Have they lost interest?

  9. Focused Exploration: Flow • Moving water through tubes Pumping water

  10. Sharing Prior Experiences • When have you seen water moving? • What do you think was making it move? • Tell about a time when you played with a garden hose, under a faucet, or in water running down a sidewalk on a rainy day.

  11. Flow Continued Water in Bottles with Holes

  12. Focused Exploration: Drops Make and observe drops Drops on various surfaces

  13. Focused Exploration: Sinking and Floating Test objects Tubes and/or Bottles

  14. Sinking and Floating Continued:Boats

  15. Resources • Field Trips • Guest speakers • Children’s Books • Teacher References • Web Sites

  16. If you want to know more: Gail Laubenthal glaubent@austinisd.org or Barbara Wilson bwilson@austinisd.org or Dr. Mary Hobbs at maryhobbs@mail.utexas.edu or Melissa Garcia at melissa.garcia@mail.utexas.edu National Science Foundation Center for Science and Mathematics Education

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